Is it a sin for a mother to murder a literal demon from the underworld who’s trying to enlist her newborn in their nefarious deeds?

Stopping an inhuman entity can call for an inhumane response.

BUT, let’s say this mother’s baby is being terrorized by an off-her-rocker biddy who’d be better off at a mental-health facility…

In which case, murdering her seems perhaps a stretch too far?

Which brings us to The Front Room’s twist. This new movie utilizes subjective perspective to fool the audience’s understanding of what exactly we’re watching. 

The story seems straightforward for most of the duration: a first-time mother with a tragic history of miscarriages is driven beyond her wit’s end by an insane grandma, who it becomes increasingly clear is possessed by a supernatural creature attempting to rope the toddler into her evil plot.

But the final twist reveals that any hint of the paranormal was entirely in the mother’s sleep-deprived, hormonally-overwhelmed, highest-stakes psyche; the camera shows us what she thinks she sees, as opposed to being an objective eye on what’s actually happening. 

Is the mother victimized? Yes.

But is she victimized by something beyond the human realm?

Nope.

Which means: the climactic murder isn’t justice; it’s a fatally extremist decision by a gal in the midst of a fractured break from reality.