“Gorgeous backdrops and gloomy, Gothic sets almost upstage one of cinema’s most notorious villains…”

“…a disorienting horror echo, something like an M.C. Escher print dripping with blood.”

“The gorier, gushier, nastier cousin to Knives Out…”

“…primarily an achievement in hallucinatory editing.”

“…proceeds with a slowly (very slowly) building dread that stifles any laughter.”

“Karloff enacts an entire tragedy in a single lurch.”

“There’s something thrilling about watching a movie so rabidly batty let off its leash.”

“…confused in almost exactly the way that the first film was.”

“Shyamalan reclaims the title as our biggest doozy of a filmmaker.”

“…mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”