It certainly is effective! Interesting that you found the castle sequence to drag! For me it captured a heightened but still realistic/grounded horror feeling very well. Like I could imagine being in that situation and just believing that you’re having bad dreams when really you’re in a demonic lair, with that realisation haunting you in the periphery of your mind.

“Feeling” long is a good way of capturing what I’m saying I think. Thanks! The way I put it to someone else was that it lost its momentum too easily and readily and too often. To the point where it feels like a once over in the writing or editing could probably elevate the whole film.