Valley of the Witch

To start with this movie was all over the place in terms of plot and such. The over the top screaming and lack of scares. As always lee banes performances was the best thing about the movie. Though this time the complaint I have is all the characters in this movie were quiet. Something with the sound design made it hard to hear so I didn't really know what they were saying. Overall just not very good and the payoff at the end was nothing spectacular either.

After going through a divorce, Kristin inherits her aunt's house in a small village. As she arrives a spate of unexplainable suicides occur and Kristin gets drawn into the evil brewing in the town.

This is a really low budget production, so if you're expecting a masterpiece of cinema, with good special effects, I'm sure "Valley of the Witch" isn't what you're looking for.

The plot is really bad. I don't like stories told in a twisted way. This is a shame because even at around 80 minutes it still feels too long with a number of scenes far too drawn out to hold your interest. The story is tied up from the middle to the end of the film.

The cast isn't good (I didn't feel particularly attached to any of the characters), and, finally, the script is very poor.

I don't recommend. 1/10.

Yet another Andrew Jones rubbish rip-off with yet another 'Top Cast' of unknowns. I don't know if you need a licence to make featureless films or not but if you do, Jones should lose his, and quick! He's the writer, director, probably make-up man, costumier, hairdresser and Chief Sweeper-Upper but he cannot make a decent film. Lee Bane, Jones favourite leading man or more likely the only person who works for nothing. Avoid this like the proverbial Plague and anything Jones has any involvment in.

The movie is not as awful as some of the movies I've seen. That said, this would use a lot of work to be a good b-movie. Some of the fill shots are actually really nice- if it were a music video based in the Welsh countryside, those shots would work.

The acting is not the worst I've seen at all, but I feel a lot of the issue is the direction and the script. A lot of the time, I was found wondering what on earth was even going on, and questioning why the characters were even saying or doing what they were doing.

Overuse of slow motion, and the super-long running scene near the end, followed by the longest cut to black I've seen was almost funny. Everytime something unfortunate happened, or a sound effect was used in an over-the-top manner, me and my partner would have a shot. We were rather tipsy by the end, it has to be said!

I think if it had a different writer, or at least someone to ask the writer why parts of the dialogue were included, as well as perhaps a more consistent lighting tech, it wouldn't look so bad.

Oh and the person who wrote the score... Well, it was... Interesting. Most of the time completely unnecessary and very, very cringe worthy.

The only way to survive The Valley of the Witch is to have something to latch onto. In my case it is the actor Lee Bane due to the fact he has starred in a large number of terrible films yet still gives every performance everything he has.

The plot is something about witches getting killed many years ago and now a welsh cult from modern day are trying to resurrect them for some unknown reason. Lee Bane is a gritty welsh detective that is trying to solve a mass suicide case which has no importance in the main plot and might as well have been a separate film.

All the actors in this film (apart from Lee Bane) are totally flat and uninteresting, the special effects (if you can call them that) look like they were done in power-point. The score is surprisingly good for such an awful film.

In short DO NOT watch this film unless, like me, you are trying to watch all of Lee Bane's films for some strange reason.