It looks like I'm on a Mike Flanagan wave. This is the 3rd thing I've watched by him in that past month.
This was a movie about a boy who dreams and those dreams become real. The movie was well done and things were very pretty. I loved the light scares and how they blended into the beautiful parts of the dream. You could always feel that on the edge there was a darkness.
For once I wish the people who were killed weren't actually dead and I think there was a valid way of doing that in the movie. I loved the reveal at the end that the demon monster thing was his idea of his mom and that he didn't fully understand her death. He had dreamt her at the end with her cancer and had made his own nightmare.
The adoptive mom was definitely using Cody to get her real son back and that was fucked up. Relateable but wild, especially since her husband was the sanest and best person in the movie. It was sad to see him get eaten up by the dream monster.
The end of the movie has the Cody learn to start manifesting his powers while awake so it could be he is able to bring them back. The movie was good, it didn't feel like his other work but this has the hallmarks of small stuff happening in the background.
Overall this was a fun watch. My cousin's 100th horror movie is coming up.