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Pyewacket (2018)

March. 23,2018
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5.8
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NR
| Drama Horror Thriller

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.

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Linbeymusol
2018/03/23

Wonderful character development!

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Nonureva
2018/03/24

Really Surprised!

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Listonixio
2018/03/25

Fresh and Exciting

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Allison Davies
2018/03/26

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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westsideschl
2018/03/27

The scariest part, and had nothing to do with the movie, was the DVD cover. Tactic seen before on extreme cheap productions. Storyline: Teen daughter and divorced mom argue over independence (what's new). Teen girl w/off the shelf book on the occult gets a chant (and she's apparently the only one who has done this?) to call up baddie spirit. The usual few drops of blood, say a few meaningless words, and done in the woods of course. Scaries: A couple scenes of a few seconds of shadow in darkened room. A few seconds of spider like crawling figure in distance. Friend has an unseen scary moment so we see her acting scared by sitting in car. Closing scenes has someone acting possessed in a really put-you-to-sleep boring way. Oh, and music and the required expectation of course.

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jadoredior1983
2018/03/28

Wow, this movie was absolutely terrible! The Bye Bye man movie was better than this and that movie sucked! You can sleep through the first hour of the movie and not miss anything. I've seen many slow burn movies in my time but this was like watching an LED candle hoping that the wax will melt but it won't because there is no heat and it's fake! Just like this movie. Don't rent it, don't buy it, don't stream it! Watch a nature documentary or golf! They are a lot more interesting than this movie that dares to call itself a horror film or a psychological thriller.

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jsimbumbu
2018/03/29

What can I say that hasn't been said already? This felt like a film from someone learning how to make a movie on an extremely low & tight budget.If it's supposed to be a horror film then it is the worst I've ever seen. Not scary. Just long & very boring. The entire film could have been told in 15 minutes. The plot is stupid! Don't waste your time. I can think of several horror films far better than this rubbish.

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lost-in-limbo
2018/03/30

Decent, but I was a little disappointed in how the Canadian independent horror "Pyewacket" went about setting up its narrative and final denouncement. All mood, predictable tradegy filler, secluded house in the woods, occult doodling, an unstable mother and lonely daughter relationship leads to a rush of blood to the head ending in harrowing regret. The summoning of an evil entity to fulfil a wish, bad vibes and death slowly toying, and manipulating its victims to serve a purpose.Really, not much happens for three quarters of the film with a routine set-up going through the motions, and then its creeping structure becomes perilously high stakes. It's light on the thrills and minimal effects, favouring a less is more approach of camera trickery, atmospheric toiling and pounding thuds. So if you're tired of jump scares, your in luck because you going to get something quite reserved for the majority of the time. The supernatural force early on, is deliberately kept off-screen. After a creepy first appearance as a black shapeless apparition seeping from the walls unbeknown to the sleeping daughter, it disappears, yet the presence is always felt preying upon each and every step of those on the estate. Finally the entity comes to the forefront and makes itself known in the third act, but even then its quite limited on how far it goes, and it's over in a matter of minutes. Finishing on a disturbing and nasty executed climax with decisive sting in its tail twist, but the effectiveness of the twist doesn't work, because you see it coming. The story blatantly lets you in on it, just before the delirium kicks in. Now was meant to be a twist, because it felt like one, yet it doesnt feel like it paid off?So was this simple slow-burn horror; of quick cutaways, false lingering build-ups and ominously "loud" sound FX (and boy is it overused) all constructed around its (shocking?) final scenes. If so, it misses the point since as a viewer we are already steps ahead. Everything comes to an abrupt ending, where certain details brought up about the consequences (discussed by an occult expert) surrounding the black ritual, are now skimped over, or forgotten about in its closing scenes. In a way, it feels like a lot of hot air. Technically well-made; great location shooting and solid acting by Nicole Munoz and Laurie Holden sharing honest portrayals, but still it's a lot of hot air.

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