"Kelly returns to his DONNIE DARKO roots by depicting an all-American family succumbing to paranormal forces, with several nods to the styles and sounds of the epoch."
Variety

"[S]inister and serious....As in his earlier films, he is again using genre (and pretty actors) as a vehicle to ask questions about the human condition (and conditioning)..."
New York Times

"[The actors] convey real warmth as the financially overextended central couple....It's an unwieldy, ambitious, one-of-a-kind film waiting for a cult to find it." -- Grade: B
A.V. Club

3 stars out of 5 -- "Style-wise, the writer/director effectively ticks off the key fantasy, sci-fi and horror elements of the film's major influence THE TWILIGHT ZONE..."
Total Film

4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] is as beguiling as it is confounding, as haunting as it is morose....It escapes conventional confines and snakes into sci-fi..."
Empire