I saw the trailer for this and read some of the glowing reviews and was really looking forward to it. It looked and sounded like a good old 80's throwback horror film. Trust me, it isn't.
The acting in the film, for the most part is fine and the setting is quite weird and atmospheric and the set up is promising enough. But then the film just goes nowhere, it takes an age for anything to happen, it has some of the most dislikable characters I've ever seen on film, seriously, there's not one person in the film I had any connection to, they're all awful people or complete idiots. They all say and do the dumbest things that completely suspend any belief, EG. Criminals go into a house to rob the place while the owner is out having a dinner date, so they have only a few hours to get the job done, then, for no reason, they decide to wonder off into the bedroom to take drugs and have sex without so much as taking a single item, who would do that???It makes no sense.
Then there's the camera work, the whole film seems to have a haze over the picture that makes the focus blurry for no reason. Any action or horror scenes take place while the camera is wobbled all over the place so you can't see what's going on, there's very little gore in the film but what there is looks fine but the 3 witches who are the main monsters in the film, you never see them, it's just 3 actors in black cloaks who come and go as the films plot needs them to. You never see anything because the budget is obviously so low they couldn't afford decent enough effects to show them. It literally is just that, 3 people in black cloak peeping around corners and then back ing off again. Most of the film is shot with blue and red lighting but its so dark that half the time you just can't see what's happening, I hate films that do this, it's lazy.
The music in the film is weird and the whole thing is quite a miserable and uncomfortable experience. This did have potential but unfortunately, it's handled so poorly that it's not even worth watching for free on cable. Avoid.
The acting in the film, for the most part is fine and the setting is quite weird and atmospheric and the set up is promising enough. But then the film just goes nowhere, it takes an age for anything to happen, it has some of the most dislikable characters I've ever seen on film, seriously, there's not one person in the film I had any connection to, they're all awful people or complete idiots. They all say and do the dumbest things that completely suspend any belief, EG. Criminals go into a house to rob the place while the owner is out having a dinner date, so they have only a few hours to get the job done, then, for no reason, they decide to wonder off into the bedroom to take drugs and have sex without so much as taking a single item, who would do that???It makes no sense.
Then there's the camera work, the whole film seems to have a haze over the picture that makes the focus blurry for no reason. Any action or horror scenes take place while the camera is wobbled all over the place so you can't see what's going on, there's very little gore in the film but what there is looks fine but the 3 witches who are the main monsters in the film, you never see them, it's just 3 actors in black cloaks who come and go as the films plot needs them to. You never see anything because the budget is obviously so low they couldn't afford decent enough effects to show them. It literally is just that, 3 people in black cloak peeping around corners and then back ing off again. Most of the film is shot with blue and red lighting but its so dark that half the time you just can't see what's happening, I hate films that do this, it's lazy.
The music in the film is weird and the whole thing is quite a miserable and uncomfortable experience. This did have potential but unfortunately, it's handled so poorly that it's not even worth watching for free on cable. Avoid.