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Directed by Adam MacDonald
A brilliant, brooding and flat-out frightening supernatural chiller from the producers of modern horror classics The Witch and The Void, featuring The Walking Dead’s Laurie Holden. After her father dies, teenager Leah is forced, by her unstable mother, to leave her friends behind and move to a house in the woods. Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother. Terrified by strange occurrences, and stricken by guilt, Leah desperately tries to reverse the spell, but soon realizes she has awoken something in the woods... and nothing can prepare her for the terror that has been unleashed.
Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother.
Cast: Nicole Munoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne
Member Reviews
Solid B+
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A hidden gem about witchcraft, teenage angst, grief, the familial bond, the transience of anger and resilience of love, and that lesson the most unfortunate among us learn the hard way: Be careful what you wish for. I thought it was brilliant and terrifying. The scares are judiciously scattered and when they come, they are frightening and disturbing.
Meh. Nothing special.
well written, acted, and shot. would watch it again. it is a slower, more subtle movie so some people might not like it, but i found it very engaging.