“Daniel Isn’t Real” writer-director Adam Egypt Mortimer made his feature debut a few years ago with “Some Kind of Hate.” In that horror fantasy, a teenage misfit gets her revenge on some bullies because, as her therapist tells her, she “must destroy the impulses that got you here.” Mortimer takes that advice in his second film by destroying the impulses that made his first film a lifeless corpse. By trading a splatterfest premise for a metaphysical head trip, and by trading skin-slashing for head-scratching, the director has opened up his world to so many more ideas.

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For some, horror is a departure. For the rest of us, fear is an around-the-clock event. That’s why it’s exciting to see a movie like Adam Egypt Mortimer‘s “Daniel Isn’t Real” secure a December release date. Not only isn’t it good to see this buzzy title finally secure a release date, but there’s also always room in our hearts for a little holiday counter-programming. Who doesn’t want to watch a movie about a violent imaginary friend when you’re smack dab in the middle of disastrous holiday travel with your family?

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It is difficult to suppress traumatic events in life, something that could be scarring for life, as “Daniel Isn’t Real” explores in this horror thriller.

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Based on the novel “In This Way I Was Saved” by Brian DeLeeuw, the film sees Miles Robbins (“Blockers”) bring deceased friend Patrick Schwarzenegger (“Midnight Sun”) back from the dead in order to cope with a traumatic event.

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