Dorcha

Well the cover looked interesting and intriguing - mainly because of the drop dead gorgeous Charlize Theron clone Amelia Eve on the front but sadly this is where the excitement ends.

Very amateurish production with annoying sound effects; violin arpeggios to highlight the usual scary moments (of which there are zero), some really terrible acting from nearly all the cast with the exception of Amelia who did her best with a woeful and tedious script that has nothing new to add to the genre and of course we have the usual cliched ending in the car - deary, deary me, when are we going to see some originality in British ghost / horror stories.

I always review a film fairly, based on its budgetary constraints, along with the acting etc but this one is hard going and sadly a lacklustre 3 hatchets on the scary scale for me!

I stumbled upon this 2021 movie titled "Dorcha" (aka "The Darkness") and I have to say that I hadn't even heard about it, but of course with it being a new horror movie, then of course I sat down to watch it.

And let me just say that writer and director Tharun Mohan did not deliver an impressive movie here. The storyline was just way too much of a scrambled heap of semi-coherent muddle. It was so difficult to get submerged into the storyline. And it didn't really help much that the pacing of the movie was slow and rather uneventful.

The characters in the movie were fairly lackluster and didn't really come off as being anything more than rigid puppets milling about in what tried to be a proper storyline. It was a shame, though, that the actors and actresses weren't given any proper material to work with here.

For this being a horror movie then the movie was just awfully devoid of anything scary or even remotely on the brink of being proper horror. So for an avid horror fan such as myself, then "Dorcha" was a mere stroll in the park. Not a good stroll, mind you, as the trek was just way too bland, pointless and boring.

My rating of "Dorcha" lands on a generous three out of ten stars. This movie was just not worth the time, money or effort. Do yourself a favor and give the movie a wide berth, especially if you enjoy horror movies, because this movie was such a weak addition to the horror genre.

This movie was a mess from start to finish. When it was finally over, you are glad it's over, but have no idea what happened. I watched the movie repeating certain sections and I still could make no sense of it. The acting was very week at times. Maybe you can watch it and explain it to me.

Nothing to be afraid of. Its a film about witchcraft that travels through the familytree of surtain individuals, shown in the film by plentyfull flashbacks to the past, showing how and why , and a manifestation that heritage is reknown for the fact that blood is thicker than life, and water of course, and the evil spirits within this plot of irish sinisterism might be sufficient for the weakhearted superstitious believer in the spiritual darkness of irish witchcraft folklore...

i have waited before, and are still waiting for some kind of scary business from these parts of the world, but cant seem to find the right spot to dig, other than say the acting are pretty theatrical, the special effects of peoples telepathic narssissistic hoovering above the actual level of abilities makes it a cheesy show of slow and everlasting dehorrified drama.

To the positive can be mentioned that the musical score are pretty fine at times, sound effects quite precise, and some of the filming are extreme steady at the same time quite bold and experimental, so heir heir to them running the camera anhd the railpusher and dollygripper as well as the focus puller.

But what we all can declare after watching ''dorcha'' aka the darkness is that the blond dame aka the witch do spell beams of beauty to the silverscreen, well worth her looks, for the grumpy old man that is not enough, ill go for the brunettes, and just a 4 with a tiny recommend mostly for the filming.

No pun intended - and as the rating suggest maybe not the compliment the movie might aim for. Still I do like the main actress a lot and overall I would not put too much blame on the actors (you may have seen her in other stuff, like a Flanagan show).

Still this is as predictable as it gets and while it has many scares, not really any of them work the way they should. Yes the jump scare thing will make you shudder once or twice and yes the effects are quite nicely done. But the real question is, is it enough for you to be fully entertained by what you get served? I would argue not - but ultimately it will boil down to your own suspense of disbelief.