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The premise of this could have turned into something really cool and mildly terrifying if they had done it properly. But they did not. I wish that I had not chosen to forgo a couple hours of reading a really good book that I'm in to go watch this because it was a waste of time. The character was not appropriately scared for anything that was going on in this movie. She didn't even scream when gross rotting demons were in her face. She kept touching a dead body and desecrating a corpse. Like.. it was just bad. There could have been so much potential for some good jumpscares, for some really intense scenes with these rotting corpse demon things. There was no intensity in the music, there was no intensity in the acting, and the storyline just didn't make sense most of the time. She finds this back room where her grandmother is practicing some voodoo witchcraft stuff and she has no idea what's going on. She googles it and suddenly she knows how to break whatever curse she thinks she has and she's upstairs doing these incantations and voodoo stuff and reading out of a book that's in Spanish when she doesn't even know spanish. It was just a hot mess from start to finish. She keeps talking to her grandmother's corpse like her grandmother is alive and they're having a snarky chat. It was just so odd. I think the one bright spot in the movie was Joe. I can't remember the actor's name off the top of my head, he was in Late Night With the Devil. But he did a good job with what he was given. Would not recommend going to see this in the theater, maybe streaming, but even then that would be a stretch.

What a boring movie. Emotionally stunted characters, lack of action through almost the entire first half aside from a 2 minute part. Very little buildup. Some tense moments that turned into some pretty good jump-scares but other than that, there was just nothing to this movie. No substance, not a lot of drama, you couldn't even understand what some of the people were saying half the time because they mumbled. The ending was just terrible. As soon as the credits started rolling everyone in the theater groaned, got up and said that it was a complete waste of time which we agreed with wholeheartedly. Don't waste an hour and a half watching this. Go watch something better.

The trailers made this movie look very intriguing. Sadly the trailer was the only thing intriguing about this movie. The plot was ridiculous, the acting was stifled and awkward, it just made no sense. The only redeeming quality is that the "bird mama" was pretty creepy and all of the male characters in the movie give you that creep vibe that makes you instantly hate them. Other than that, this was a terrible movie. There were no characters that were intriguing enough for you to care about them. The plot seemed to jump all over the place. Waste of time, but at least marginally better than I Saw the TV Glow and I a Violent Nature, although that is not saying much.