The Axe Murders of Villisca

This horror is based on the actual axe murders that took place in 1912 and were never solved. So it all looked promising but in stead of becoming a slasher flick this turns into a paranormal flick.

Is it that bad, well, it all moves away from the actual story and not having any gore or bloody moments this flick fails to deliver. Before the horror comes in it's all about teens and their love problems and once in the house having a tour it all takes too long before things go wrong. half way the flick they do enter the house again, at night and then it all starts, but it was a bit too late.

The last minutes do deliver the goods but still it's clearly made to have teens watching it. The axe killing people is all done off-camera. The possession entering the visitors is done with, sigh, black eye lenses. Nothing looks scary and the voice being deformed by processors in editing is another big failure.

Of course teens watching this will love the way it was done. But for a real buff it's all to low to really stick in your mind.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This is a straight forward horror movie that you've seen many, many times before, with all the standard moves, scares, characters and ending.

It brings nothing new, delivers on very few levels, doesn't get you too involved, annoys at times but at least it is not over stretched. A haunted house film like all others, with familiar ghosts and typical reactions leading to the most common finale.

It's down to everyone's personal opinion, I just sat there, watched it and that was all. Didn't do much for me. So watch it at your own peril.

Cheers!

Most all of these "kids" who are supposed to be in high school are older than college grads, or close to their thirties. The audience isn't blind when they're watching! Other than that, it was fairly entertaining. Some of it was good, some bad. Overall, except for the casting, it was enjoyable if you have nothing else to do.

The usual garbage, made even worse by an incomprehensible final thirty minutes.

Everything was thrown at the wall, to see what would stick. This is absolutely inept on so many levels.

Just pointless. Streaming sites need to do better than is pablum.

The title and plot sound interesting, but within the first 30 minutes I knew I was done! lol First, When the 3 teens visit the house for the tour, they are shown the murder weapon plainly hung on a wall above a fireplace with only a rope around it and no one guarding the place at night- it's not realistic to me, but rather dumb, that a murder weapon and historical artifact would still be there after decades....someone would have stolen it by then. Second, The two boys who claim to be "paranormal investigators" didn't even have proper equipment - instead they brought candles and began asking questions in a circle as if doing a seance?! Please. They would not have been the first, or last, group of teens to break into that house at night....unfortunately, the lack of talent and convincing performances led me to stop watching after only 30 minutes.