Eerie is the latest in what seems to be a growing trend on how to market a streaming horror movie: quick, somebody get on twitter and claim you couldn't go to sleep after watching the movie! I wouldn't go so far as to say it's on par with the scariest movies I've ever seen, but it is highly watchable. It's a ghost story that uses a fairly common combination of urban legends: the story about the haunted bathroom combined with the story about the room in a girl's dormitory where a student hung herself. The title is a play on the main ghost's name, which I don't think is really a spoiler since you find that out in the opening third of the film. The tropes are mostly things you've seen before, with all the candles and the lightning and thunder, the urban legends previously mentioned, and religious iconography. What's most unusual for this type of story is how well shot this thing is. The director makes great use of de-saturated colors, mirrored surfaces, eye imagery and light and shadow. It's just beautiful to behold and amps up the tension. Sound design is also good, especially in use of news programs playing in the background and the tape recorder which the main character uses. This brings me to another unusual element in this picture which is a legitimate spoiler: the main character is a school counselor who, we discover early on, has taken it upon herself to try to counsel the ghost. I don't think I have ever seen this approach before on how to motivate a living character to get involved with a ghost story, and I like the way this setup was developed. It turns out she has a personal reason for wanting to help, and it's a believable reason too. The plot involves a fake-out within a fake-out within a fake-out, but it's paced well enough to make the viewer feel rewarded rather than annoyed, even with the bittersweet ending.
