After
a miscarriage of their newborn a couple
named Shawn (Andrew Bowen), whom is a
photographer and his wife Helen (Maxine
Bahns) starts a new life a year later.
Helen's brother Frank Higgins (John
Schneider) helps them reside in their new
house by the woods as there's an
abandoned shack there which Shawn hears
strange sounds coming from it and when he
enters the shack his finger is bitten.
The place was once resided by a witch
centuries ago named Hattie and he's
certain the place is haunted with her
malevolent spirit.
He also finds out that Helen is pregnant
once again and is told by locals there
that her and her unborn child could be in
danger.
He tries to talk to Frank about it but he
gets upset with him and later on Helen as
well since they both don't believe him
and now he seems to confront this deadly
spirit alone. Is he imagining all this?
Good shots with Helen Burnett being in labour with the ER Doctor
telling her the bad news and she gets
emotional along with both her and her husband Shawn getting demanding with him to
check again for a pulse on their unborn
child.
There's some good shots with Frank Higgins showing both Helen and Shawn around their new house.
We spot some good takes on Shawn in the shack looking around and then some
fast camera action on his hand being
bitten.
We have some good shots on a child watching
the house in areas around the woods.
Good angle shots on Shawn taking pictures of different things in
the woods.
There's a nice shot on both Shawn and Helen lying down with one
another having a discussion about her
being pregnant and their fears on a
misscarriage as their discussions looked
very natural.
We spot many takes on Shawn walking towards the shack in the dark
looking around and hearing the noises
with jumping moments on some ghostly
approaches giving a good horror feel to
it all.
A nice shot on him chasing after the child in the woods
as well as a creepy like dialogue between
him and a backwoods father coldly telling him
about what happened with him and his wife
residing there which looked very
impressive.
Good argumentive discussions
between Shawn and Marlin Dreyer about what is happening to
where they're residing. Then we spot a
good shot on Shawn staring inside the
window at Marlin's wife Mrs. Dreyer with a good jumping moment on Marlin approaching and staring coldly at him.
Many good camera takes on both Shawn and Mrs. Dreyer having a discussion about the
legend of the shack that hasn't been
touched which looked good on her part as someone acting eccentric and
mysterious.
We spot good angle shots on a crow going
in a garbage can as well as standing on a
pole watching.
There's good takes on Shawn hucking rocks at the crow.
A good shot on Shawn obsessively staring out his window
towards a bear trap placed in a garbage
can along with shots on Helen using a paintroller to paint the house.
We spot a good shot on Shawn taking a knife and trying to stab a crow
caught in the bear trap with him going
crazy stabbing at the crow which looked good and done in a
psychotically fashion.
A nice cell phone discussion
between Frank and Shawn when he gets anxious telling
him about the house they're residing in
saying it's dangerous with Frank acting cocky and aggressive towards him
as the scene looked like a
believeable dispute.
Many good takes on Shawn walking in some mist holding a stick and
then entering the shack and staring at a
fireplace with a good cheesy CGI effect
on the flames blowing at him and nice
close up shots on him and his tense
expressions as well as many other good
shots on him running outside and being
terrorised by a crow and a shot on the
haunting witch Hattie approaching up
towards him which I found was the best scene of all.
Bottom line is that I enjoy films that
have hauntings especially if a witch is
involved. This one had the odd good
scares and jumps but it seems to go
around in circles a bit too much and the
best part is when the film is close to
it's end with the haunting battles.
The ending totally psychs you out
wondering if it's for real or not
entering the mind of someone claiming
these hauntings. It's a fun and
entertaining movie which makes it just an
above average flick but that's all it is.
Sometimes you might not bein the mood for
it and other times you may.
Some elements borrow a bit from Book
of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 during
the ending of the film mainly and tried
to be as original as possible during the
rest of the story but didn't go too far.
Oh well at least they tried as best they
could.
The acting is
quite good as lead actor Michael
Bowen (Shawn Burnett) strutted his stuff quite well
as the seemingly caring husband in the
film showing good energy and nice
intensity to his part throughout the role
along with good violent reactions against
the evil crow in the flick. He does well
from acting sane to being really insane
as well.
Maxine Bahns (Helen Burnett) seems to do well with
her emotions as well as being sympathetic
too. She also knew how to act angry
during one moment in the film which she
brought out alot during that moment too. A good tense moment with her screaming at someone which was
well done in a certain part of the story.
John Schneider (Frank Higgins) brought some
character to the part of the film as a
family member helping the couple out
buying them the house showing a good
charm to his part as well as acting cocky
and aggressive too when he needed to be.
Tom Nowicki (Marlin Dreyer) showed a good mysterious
attitude to his part which makes you
wonder what his involvement to the film
is and stressed it really well by doing
this.
We have a small role by Brett Rice (Fulton Moss) playing a backwoods farmer in the film
but had to talk about him since he really
stood out in his part and spoke well in a
creepy tone with a good serious attitude
as you kinda feel he has something to do
with what is going on at the house and
the shack too.
We hear some great windy
sounds for the suspenseful moments like
with a crow appearing on a pole or the
creepy looking shack. There's good
screeching sounds too. Alot during the
storylines we hear cold sounding piano
playing and violin music too with the odd
chants which all came together nicely by Dana
Niu.
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