Hellish special effects overwhelm the story of a college student and his imaginary buddy, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger
There are touches of M Night Shyamalan and Donnie Darko in this enjoyably ludicrous low-budget psychological-horror, directed by Adam
Egypt Mortimer, about an imaginary friend who turns nasty. It’s full of plot holes but compulsively watchable for the first hour, before the whole thing falls to pieces as Mortimer chucks in a load of well-worn horror-movie tropes.
Miles Robbins plays Luke, an unconfident arty law student who as a kid had an imaginary friend called Daniel – a coping mechanism to help him deal with his dad walking out, or so everyone believed. Now Luke is in college and Daniel is back, charming and sinister, and played by Arnie’s son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, giving a show-offy performance like an evil Ferris Bueller.