This film is appropriately creepy and well acted. It feels like a new angle on an old story and it works because you care enough about Rachel. But I think the strongest performances come from the supporting cast of Riehle and Savante. The cinematography stands out. It made me want to go on summer vacation in MA till the hooded villagers showed up. I won't give away the spoiler climax but it certainly surprised my girlfriend and I. Well done to the director and all involved.
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I'm sorry that your film did not turn out well.
shareThank you for the astroturf, you've convinced me to skip this film.
shareNice! "Astroturf." I've never heard that used in place of "obvious bull5hit" before, but it works perfectly! May I use it and slap a copyright on its ass? lol
Intro - Jellyman, Offspring, Offspring, Jellyman. Gimme some fin, noggin, dude!
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It is a film heavy on suggestion. Certainly despite some minor flaws, creepy enough and packs scattered suspense punches to get my thumbs up. The shocking twist at the end should be well received. I have read remarks from some of the hate trolls in here. Those of us who saw it in Florida were asked to leave reviews up on these boards. From what I understand, most of us in the audience signed up for imdb accounts in order to do that. It doesn't diminish our opinions. I've been a member here for years and finally decided to write some comments today. I do find it interesting that people are commenting about how their time was wasted watching the film. But then they came on here and wasted more time writing hateful graffiti. Seemingly to sabotage the product. The film must be very important to them. Their agenda of repetitively attacking the director is a common theme.
shareI was going to skip this flick until I became aware of the effort made here to cheat the system with fake reviews and BS comments like yours. Curiosity killed the cat and all that..
No worries, I didn't spend any money to watch it and didn't waste time either. I downloaded it and let it play while I did other things, mostly for laughs as it turns out. I'm sure movie-making isn't easy, but I still can't quite understand how something this bad comes to be.
I love your idea that people who post negative reviews/comments are not doing so as a normal response to a horrible flick with fake great comments, but "seemingly to sabotage the product". How does one sabotage a boat they find sitting on the bottom of the ocean? Is it wrong to point out that the "For Sale: Brand New, Perfect Condition" sign on the sunken boat isn't accurate?
I applaud your wonderful, dead-on analogy! What comes to my mind is a Good Samaritan using flares to direct nighttime traffic safely around a mid-road accident site. A very, very bad accident site. And telling drivers to ignore the For Sale, Excellent Condition signs on the cars involved.
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... and all involved.
Must people be so harsh
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I admit I did enjoy this film. It was better than the nasty reviews made it out to be.
The ending was an unexpected twist and a welcome one.
Ali Faulkner really looked gorgeous in this film.
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Its ending was very much welcome, indeed!
shareI told my roommate that I couldn't take it the minute I saw it was shot to video and not on film. Even using Sony Vegas editing software, they could have used the elimination of every 7th "frames" to mimic film, which a free copy can be downloaded.
I know the closed caption referenced the wrong birds making the wrong sounds.
This movie is offensive to real witches, Wiccans, Pagans, and practitioners of Vodou.
For Rachel to have been a professional journalist, out of journalism school she was too meek in nature. Journalist are aggressive and don't back down. So were Greg and Rachel a couple and he knew she was crazy? Was Joe and Jason gay? They were of the age to have been married and have a family, but then again same can be said of me and my roommate - we call it bitter after divorces... LOL!
The round powder house was square inside and that really bothered me. There is one in Williamsburg and in Charleston in the historic area. The Powder House used in this movie was beautiful.
There should have been more money spent on the post production A/V because the sound effects were mixed horribly and to hot in the mix. The voices were not mixed for 5.1 dolby or 5.1 surround and if they were, then it came across zero in the center channel, hot in the nearfields, zero in the rear and unbalanced. Audio for Video can enhance or degrade the video.
I always watch for the amount of money spent on the film companies intro blurb and the quality of the name choice for the production company. Money was allotted for a pretty actress and the actor playing Paul, those were familiar faces. I'm not into name actors but they can add stock personality, but actors trying to make a name do usually work harder unless they act out campiness. I really can't imagine a black actor playing the part of a southern plantation slave and being in Mass.
The audio for a cell phone can be best captured using a cheap SM 57 mic'd thru a Pignose amp and then amp tracked into the film.
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