I'm not against a horror movie that operates by suggestion rather than by the literal blunt-headed explicitness that governs most mainstream horror, but "The Woman in the Yard" is actually as thin and obvious as all those movies.

Siddhant Adlakha of Mashable calls the upcoming scary movie “a baffling mix of horror ideas,” as The Woman in the Yard begins as a streamlined concept but soon bloats into a half-dozen different movies that build to a “distasteful finale.” Adlakha continues:

Ordering her children to remain in the house, Ramona ventures out ... It’s at this point that the movie begins devolving into familiar horror film tropes, including the obligatory jump scares ...