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I saw this as part of research for a project I'm doing. As that it gave me some ideas so I'm happy with that. As another reviewer points out the dates of the battles in the beginning of the film are all wrong, moved to the 14th century.

As to the movie itself: yes it's horribly cliché, yes the all-American accents are pretty irritating, and yes the end is horrible, including the cgi-demon and the "riding off into the sunset" parts. But no, dear co-reviewer that there was a plague craze and all sorts of (modern mind) ridiculous explanations abounded. And yes women were burned and killed in other ways (and then burned) in the name of witch hunting. So this is not totally unrealistic. And of course there were "witches" knowing nature medicine and being able to heal people that contemporary medicine didn't know how to treat.

As a mildly entertaining and completely forgettable film however it works. I wouldn't recommend anyone paying to see this, but if you find it on Netflix and have nothing else to do, it's not totally worthless.

Not many, but I've seen worse. It starts off promising with a son looking for closure after his father's death, bringing a few friends for a simply ceremony. He makes it all into some kind of documentary so this movie is part self documentary (Blair witch project you know) and part real time action.

Now, if the parts hinted at in the documentary part of the film actually got acted on in the real time action part - then it would actually, maybe, and quite possibly have been a decent horror story. But no, that doesn't really happen.

Either because the actors and director doesn't have necessary talent to pull it through, or because the script is bad, or maybe a combination. Yelling in darkness isn't acting, so that doesn't count towards talent. And, unfortunately, that is most that happens in the real life action part of the film. It simply gets hideously boring.

I think it would have been much, much better to concentrate on the documentary, fleshing out the story that way and make a Gothic, Lovecraftian end to it all rather than the poor action it contains. Alas it's much too late for that now ...

I have very mixed feelings about this film. While I can see the arty/surreal/dreamscape aspect of it - it never ignites any interest. One reviewer said about the main character that "In fact, there's hardly any evidence that she processes strong emotions at all. She just goes about her business. Things happen to her, and she's too reticent to shrug them off."

This gives it a kind of dreamlike quality. It's as if nothing ever hurts her. People around her can - it seems - do anything and she barely registers the act. Lucy - the main character - is a student without money apparently doing anything to stay alive including deadly boring office work, and equally non-exciting cafe duties and doesn't stop at prostitution either. All with a totally nihilistic attitude.

And this is my main problem, there is basically no reaction to anything that happens. The main character just floats through existence of life and the movie without any emotional reaction at all. It all feel surreal and dreamlike without me ever taking any interest in the main character.

Some of you might be wondering about the amount of nudity in the film, it seems to have gained some reputation in that department. There is a lot of it in the second half of the film, but it never becomes in the least anything even remotely close to sexuality or pornography - these scenes are equally dreamlike and surreal. But for those taking exception, you have been informed ...