Josiah Morgan’s review published on Letterboxd:
It's okay to be afraid.
Notice that Hooper often includes photographers at scenes of crimes (most notably in this and The Mangler, although the audio-recording of the murder in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a similar touch): it is so much easier to preserve than change.
A film of dissonance. The interiors of David's house are like a Safe Place except his parents are not Safe People, looking through his window at night the natural landscape right outside his bedroom is very clearly false, an artificial soundstage. This film could come across as 'low-budget,' but Hooper shoots the entire thing like a soap opera in order to enforce cognizance of the falsehood of Adult Words and Adult Tears: nobody in this film has truly been converted into an alien, David is simply slipping into a world where he has an awareness of the inconsistent logic and unfair gambles taken by adults. Growing up is pretty damn hard to do when everyone already-grown around you is trying their hardest to regress.
You can't control them.