I was excited to see this as a lover of horror. I don't even care that it had a black male lead, it's all good.

I just couldn't get past the rather overt and plain for all to see demonstration that the white family was dysfunctional, stupid, arrogant and at times demonstrated a far lesser bond for their child. And they were not alone!

There was a scene where the lead was photographing a white family portrait style. Of course, the kid is unruly, running amuck and the parents are pissed. Cue another scene, kids are being dropped off at school. Again the kids are going crazy, making loads of noise, the parents are frankly being little bitches. Compare that to any child of colour who are all placid, calm, intelligent, their parents doting and clearly have their backs.

Plot spoiler, what happens at the end? The dumbass white father fucks up in yet another oafish blunder and dooms his daughter who he didn't really like much anyway to eternal damnation.

I am only surprised that the demon didn't call out the white priest/evangelist dude as a paedophile while the virtuous black lady rings out her potions, juxtaposed against the white nurse with her Christianity appearing mooted, impotent and far weaker in comparison.

I thought, I can't be the only person who saw this. Did Spike Lee direct this?

It all seemed rather more an exercise in subtle wokeness, comparing the doting and together black father who remained committed to his child in spite of the tragedy that befell him, while the white families and children were all, well, just stupid. The whole demon thing? Yeah, that got maybe a 20 minute sequence towards the end, by that time the whole movie burned so slowly you just did not care. By the end, I was sort of hoping the demon would just kill all of them and have done with it.

Oh the white girl doomed to eternal damnation? Yeah, no matter, no loss. Brush it aside, nobody cares.