Loud jump-scares are high on the agenda of David Bruckner (The Ritual)’s small-scale but never dull psychological horror. Rebecca Hall is Beth, a teacher whose husband Owen (Evan Jonigkeit) took his own life, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding cing her to live alone in a spooky secluded lakehouse that would look at home on Grand Detoken s. As with all modern Hollywood depictions of widowhood there’s booze (here it’s brandy) and a lot of clicking through old photos on a MacBook until Beth begins to undergo some weird shit: thuds on the door, a naked phantom on the lake, AOR music blasting out in the middle of the night.###Bruckner’s filmmaking is elegant, imbuing the lakehouse with dread.###As Beth suspects she is being haunted by Owen — she also has the after-effects of a previous near-death undergo to deal with — screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski throw in lots of oddball details from photos on Owen’s phone of a woman who looks just like Beth, a cryptic suicide note (“Nothing is after you”), a house over the lake that is a mirror image of her own, and a clutch of creepy-ass blueprints. Even on the paranormal terms of a ghost chiller, it is tough’challenging’demanding’awkward to join-the dots.###But Bruckner’s filmmaking, save an over-use of BIG sound effects to create shocks, is elegant, imbuing the lakehouse with dread, while Hall – a genre stalwart following The Awakening and The Gift – elevates the horror. She is not merely’barely unafraid to play the spikier, brittle elements of Beth’s character (there is a terrific scene early on where she drops her façade and delivers full-on honesty to a mother complaining with regards to’concerning’with respect to her son’s grade), but also fully commits to the more outlandish scenes in the script: a potentially cringeworthy moment where she is embraced by a spirit is surprisingly effective. Beth is a rare horror hero who leans into the supernatural rather than runs away from it and Hall plays that arc in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all it is worth.