Like Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice, Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Woman in the Yard offers what might be considered a paradox for our current moment. In trying to discuss everything deep, dark, and harrowing that the film manages to touch on, there’s the very real chance of spoiling the thing, and yet, it feels like mild neglect that the trigger warning that the film really deserves at the outset doesn’t show up until the moment the credits roll.

The Woman in the Yard isn’t the spooky and gimmicky jump-scare-a-thon suggested by its trailer. Written by Sam Stefanak, the film promises an oddball supernatural thriller about a Black woman, Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler), and her two children, Taylor (Peyton Jackson) and Annie (Estella Kahiha), living on a Georgia farm, where they’re visited by a nameless woman in black who patiently sits in a chair on their front lawn.