Coven

From choice of filter, cameras, angles and editing, to the acting, setting and story. It's so bad that my cringe reaction was delayed out of pure disbelief.

Come on.... this was such a blatant attempt at ripping off the craft ... you guys didn't try very hard. It was hilariously awful!

Now, I am not sure if it was intentional or fully coincidental, but writer Lizze Gordon's 2020 movie "Coven" felt an awful lot like the 1996 movie "The Craft". Was it a tribute? Sort of a reboot? A rip off? Coincidental? I have no idea.

But I do know, however, that "Coven" was not having the same impact or level of entertainment as the 1996 movie had. Sure, the 2020 movie "Coven" from director Margaret Malandruccolo was watchable, but it was by no means an outstanding movie.

The concept of the storyline was adequate. But it just felt a bit too cliché, and too much off a rip off of the 1996 movie in my opinion. And that made this 2020 movie suffer. Sure, if you haven't seen the 1996 movie "The Craft", then I am sure you'll find "Coven" to be rather good. However, if you have seen the 1996 movie, then this 2020 movie just felt like a cup of lukewarm, watered down tea.

The special effects in the movie were adequate, although it felt somewhat comical at times from the way that the witches were tossing about their magical powers. But at least the CGI effects were proper and nice enough to look at.

One thing I don't understand is why director Margaret Malandruccolo felt that she had to show so many scenes with either scantily clad women or showing off naked breasts. It did very little to serve the movie in a manner to take it serious. If the director had opted for another approach, it would have felt more like a proper movie, instead of a pseudo-sleazy late teenage movie project.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, but I weren't overly entertained. Sure, the movie was watchable for what it was, but you shouldn't get your hopes up for this movie.

My rating of "Coven" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

After some 20 dreary minutes I could't help pushing the FF-button, to see if somewhere along the line there would pop up something remotely interesting (let alone scary), but it turned out as still more of the same silly, uneventful rip-off of any other B-movie that concerns young college girls doing witchcraft. Ridiculous story, bad dialogues, cringing acting, hopeless lighting, sound and special effects: everything oozed amateurism and low (if any) budget.

Because of the lack of a decent plot or script, the director thought of bringing in as much skin as possible, so he made his actresses do their witching in an endless variation of cheap looking lingerie, which turned out anything but sexy or titillating, just preposterous.

Don't let the brazenly misleading synopsis fool you: pass this one, it's a waste of time.

Complete disappointment. The acting is terrible, only the script is worse than it. After watching it, I had only one question: how can such a thing be filmed in our time?