Beth (Keegan Connor Tracy) is concerned about her son Joshua's new imaginary friend Z. He seems to be acting up and gets suspended from school. The family finds help from child psychiatrist Dr. Seager (Stephen McHattie) who contributes to the resurfacing of a dark childhood memory.

This is a fine horror premise. The story is fine. The reveal is interesting. The main problem is that it's not filmed in a scary way. This is not a scary horror. It's very similar to The Babadook except this is inferior filmmaking. Finally, I'm not sure about the ending. It's a possible ending but others would work better and be more logical.

Joshua (Jett Klyne ) is an imaginative young man who attends the Vincent Massey School (Go Mustangs! eh.) He has an imaginary friend named "Z" who has him do bad things until he gets expelled from school. During this time Joshua's grandmother dies and we discover (plot spoiler) mom (Keegan Connor Tracy) had the same imaginary friend (odd she can't remember him). "Z" is real and bad and causes problems including an odd and messed up ending.

This is a Canadian film and most Canadian filmmakers fall short on the horror genre.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

I hadn't even heard about the movie "Z" from writers Brandon Christensen and Colin Minihan before I happened to stumble upon it by random luck. I picked it up, and the movie definitely had a horror sensation to the cover, so of course I needed no persuasion to sit down awn watch this 2019 movie.

While the storyline definitely had good moments, the movie was flawed. It was flawed to the point where it ultimately failed to raise above mediocrity. I mean, the concept of an imaginary friend being real has been used many times before, for sure. But the atmosphere in the movie was so foreboding and brooding that director Brandon Christensen had me expecting something grand when the imaginary friend, Z, was finally revealed...

In came a most atrocious CGI rendering of an abstract humanoid creature. Uhm, okay, what just went wrong there? The CGI was so bad that the movie almost lost me entirely in the curve. It was so atrocious to bear witness to, and the entire atmosphere and dread that was built up, vanishes like darkness before the rising sun.

The acting in the movie was good, just a shame that the movie was sort of restrictive in what they had to work with. I mentioned the storyline being good. And well, it was. But it just felt like the movie didn't really reach its fullest potential. And the ending of the movie was just a bit forced - predictable even. And for a horror movie, then "Z" was frightfully devoid of scary parts. I think the most scary part about the entire movie was actually the massive drawing that the child made on the wall - it was actually downright impressive.

All in all, not a bad movie, but hardly a memorable one either. I am rating "Z" a mediocre five out of ten stars - as the atrocious CGI killed it for me. I sat through the entire movie, as was adequately entertained, but this is hardly a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time.