

A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.
Practical Effects
The creature design commits to the bit admirably.
Writing
Rules-based horror that actually follows its own nonsense.

Director
Ryan Bellgardt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ryan Bellgardt also did the creature effects himself on a shoestring budget.
The title deliberately courts confusion with Joe Dante's 1984 classic—this is not that.