Imaginary
Directed by Jeff WadlowWanneer Jessica terug verhuist naar haar ouderlijk huis, vindt haar stiefdochter Alice een teddybeer in de kelder waar ze een hechte band mee opbouwt. De spelletjes die ze met Chauncey de beer speelt beginnen onschuldig, maar nemen al snel een sinistere wending. Terwijl het gedrag van Alice steeds zorgwekkender wordt, ontdekt Jessica dat Chauncey meer is dan een denkbeeldig vriendje in de vorm van een onschuldige teddybeer. Chauncey is niet denkbeeldig en hij is niet je vriend!
Imaginary Ratings & Reviews
- gnrrain18 maart 2026Horror cliche filled PG-13 movie. Really, in all honesty, there isn't not much more that would need to be said. This hits a lot of check boxes for cheap horror.
- Pokit the phox6 juli 2025Scruffy bear plus creepy lady plus twisty ending equals 3 tail wags.
- jackmeat29 juni 2025My quick rating - 4.4/10. I probably should have left Imaginary right where it was, languishing on my watchlist, gathering digital dust. Instead, I pressed play, and Chauncey the murderous Build-A-Bear is now seared into my brain for all the wrong reasons. Let’s start with that promising title: Imaginary. You’d think, “Hey, maybe they’ll get clever with psychological horror, blur the lines of reality, give us something fresh.” Nope. Turns out the only thing imaginary here is the script’s creativity. This is about as generic as your standard off-brand breakfast cereal: we get the haunted house with a conveniently tragic backstory, a kid with complex family baggage, and a stuffed bear that occasionally creaks its neck like it needs a chiropractor. The plot waddles along slower than Chauncey’s little plush legs. It takes forever to get anywhere even remotely interesting. We spend half the movie watching Jessica (DeWanda Wise) fret over her stepdaughter Alice’s new imaginary BFF, while everyone else stands around delivering painfully explanatory dialogue. You know, in case you’re incapable of piecing together that a demonic teddy might be a bad sign. When the scares finally arrive, they’re mostly loud noises designed to make you spill your popcorn. True dread? Actual horror? Not so much. The “big” twists broadcast themselves like they’re holding neon signs. If you couldn’t predict where this was headed by minute 25, congrats, you probably are Chauncey. I’ll give the filmmakers a reluctant gold star for trying something visually fun with the Escher-style nightmare realm. Those impossible staircases and weird geometric corridors were legitimately cool for about 90 seconds. Unfortunately, the film’s tiny effects budget becomes glaringly obvious, like it was all spent on renting a fog machine and buying that one CGI model of twisting hallways off a discount asset site. By the time the climax limps across the finish line, it’s clear nobody in the editing bay had the energy left to give us a memorable ending. It’s the cinematic equivalent of leaving a “To be continued…” sign on a story you never planned to revisit. The credits roll, and you’re left sitting there thinking, “Wait, that’s it? Chauncey doesn’t even get a final menacing wave goodbye?” Look, there are worse ways to waste 100 minutes—like attending a motivational seminar hosted by your weird uncle, but Imaginary is still a soft 4.4/10 from me. If you’re brave enough to face predictable scares, flat exposition, and a bear that’s somehow both cute and aggressively underwhelming, by all means, hit play. Otherwise, let Chauncey hibernate at the bottom of your queue where he belongs.
- parktool691 december 2024heebie jeebies
Imaginary Trivia
Imaginary was released on 6 maart 2024.
Imaginary was directed by Jeff Wadlow.
Imaginary has a runtime of 1 u, 44 m.
Imaginary was produced by Paul B. Uddo, Jason Blum, Jeff Wadlow.
Wanneer Jessica terug verhuist naar haar ouderlijk huis, vindt haar stiefdochter Alice een teddybeer in de kelder waar ze een hechte band mee opbouwt. De spelletjes die ze met Chauncey de beer speelt beginnen onschuldig, maar nemen al snel een sinistere wending. Terwijl het gedrag van Alice steeds zorgwekkender wordt, ontdekt Jessica dat Chauncey meer is dan een denkbeeldig vriendje in de vorm van een onschuldige teddybeer. Chauncey is niet denkbeeldig en hij is niet je vriend!
The key characters in Imaginary are Jessica (DeWanda Wise), Taylor (Taegen Burns), Alice (Pyper Braun).
Imaginary is rated 14.
Imaginary is a Horror, Mysterie, Thriller film.
Imaginary has an audience rating of 5.2 out of 10.
Imaginary had a budget of US$ 10 mln..
Imaginary has made US$ 43,8 mln. at the box office.