Movie Review- I See You (2019)

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!! ****

This movie was honestly so well made and lived way up to my expectations. I did not expect much out of watching this, because I was looking for horror movies we haven't watched to add to our quarantine collection of horror films. We saw the trailer and it looked intriguing after seeing the boy fly out of his bike, so we started to watch it. The first half of the movie was so confusing and it seemed like this paranormal film, with all these ghostly encounters happening to the family. The trailer misled the audience to think that it was a paranormal movie I guess.

In the beginning, Helen Hunt seems like she cheated on her husband and the son found out, making the family vibes super hostile. The kid got in a fight at school, making the film seem like some typical family drama mixed with some thriller crime scene story. They're all looking into this case where it centers around the missing boy who flew out of his bike in the beginning. There are some scenes where it makes you wonder what is going on in this movie, because it is so confusing. There are some subtle scenes that make the film more confusing and paranormal, but not obvious at all what is really happening in the movie. For example, the hamster is roaming outside of his cage and the dad gets locked in by some mysterious figure who traps him inside and is watching from the outside in. This makes you wonder if it is Connor (the son) or an actual ghost. There are random hints throughout the movie, but they are so subtle that you miss them (like the frog mask under the bed).

That adds onto the mysterious tone throughout the whole film. It seems like these paranormal weird occurrences are out of the family's control, but it all comes down to making complete sense and the family (the dad) being in complete control in the end.

There are purposeful misleadings like the cigarette mug that the dad finds and believes it belongs to Connor, which makes the audience think Connor is just insane and has been doing all these things to the family the whole time (kill the homewrecker).

It was so unexpected to me when there is a third outside force (The Phroggers/Squatters) that has been living in their house the whole time. Definitely did not expect this at all! They have been messing with the family the whole time, and they were the paranormal forces! But what about the two kids that keep flashing in and out of the film, and the missing boy?? This part of the story is still confusing until the story all unfolds. The phroggers were looking inside from the outside the whole time, but Alec wanted to cross those boundaries and become dangerously involved in their family drama.

When the homewrecker comes to visit and the mug falls on his head, I honestly thought that the son went mad and threw it at him. But it was way too easy for this to be true. The phroggers accidentally threw it down and it hit him on the head. Then you find out that the dad killed him and Alec nor the son went mad and killed the homewrecker.

The dad also took the missing boy and he turns out to be a serial rapist murderer who never got caught for years!!! And messed up the guy with the burnt face before.

It is just crazy how you notice that this burned guy was actually looking at the psycho kidnapper straight in the eye and he is saying "No No No!" because of this. He cannot say it is him because he is going through emotional PTSD but this is why he says this and starts going nuts. It is subtle so the audience does not notice this as well.

The craziest thing is that Alec messed with the family all on purpose because of his ultimate goal and backstory. He was the other kid who was kidnapped on the railroad tracks years ago by the dad! And he wanted revenge by phrogging all along. He was not looking in without meaning, he was doing it with a vengeance. This makes the whole film make perfect sense when you have the whole story, and the film is just so amazing when it all adds up. The dad looked like the innocent dude the whole time even in the beginning with the wife cheating on him, and Alec the bad bed intruder who was just squatting in their innocent little house, but the wife was obviously cheating for a reason and Alec was actually the innocent one just killing him for revenge. Honestly, amazing movie. 9/10!!!**

Also, I did not know that it was Helen Hunt until my mom told me the second time rewatching. I was like omg that is crazy I did not know it was her. I think she got too much botox and changed her entire face. Wowsers.