Mercy Black

The film had potential using a Slender Man type legend.....I thought anything could be better than the actual Slender Man movie released last year but I was wrong. While this movie had it's moments it was quite slow & dragging in places that my attention wandered quite a bit. If you want to watch a better version of this watch the 2016 TV movie "The Crooked Man".

Overall, quite a slow film and not really many scary moments. Starts off well enough, but characters have no real depth and there is no real development of the original plot. Found myself waiting for the film to end. Not the worst film in the world, but for fans of horror, I would give this one a miss.

Mercy Black has a rather interesting idea, not the entire plot, but it starts out a little more ambitious than your usual indie flick.

Sadly the execution does not provide as it should, mostly as one would expect from such a production, thus it goes downhill and loses itself there. I do believe more could have been achieved without over inflating the budget, but simply try harder to connect the dots. You won't get much thrill out of it either, just a story that slowly reveals itself in front of your eyes and then the end. Rather typical, another swing and miss like so many other such movies.

I'm not going to go all aggressive because it did try and provided a tad bit more than usual, but I'm not going to recommend it either.

Cheers!

The plot has all been done before, there isn't really anything original here, but as a film it's pretty good. It's very nicely made, the production values are hard to fault, it's well filmed and edited. The acting is excellent, every single performer does their job, delivering quality acting.

The Mercy Black figure is creepy as Hell, and very well realised, the main encounter was the best scene. Some very good imagery, particularly at the end.

If you want some good scares, but are willing to accept that you'll have seen it all before you might just enjoy it.

6/10.

I wish I could get my 1 hr 28 min back. It started out like it would be decent, but quickly went down hill. Mediocre acting, half baked plot, awful special effects. It's like the writers couldn't figure out who they wanted to be the bad guy or how to string the characters along into a cohesive story.