The Offering

The Offering is one of the worst horror movies I have seen in 2016. This one isn't as low budget as many of the crappy ones I have seen this year, but it sure takes the prize on being half-finished and sloppy. It is, in all fairness, also sort of an amateurish Indonesian production.

Even though it doesn't exactly look cheap, the entire project is, from a technical standpoint, utterly terrible. The cinematography and camera work is quite decent for the most part, but the acting, direction, plot and "scary" parts are dreadful. The horror part seems like a badly filmed spoof (the lighting is bad and the shots are often badly executed). The reactions of the characters are also incredibly unbelievable (no details given, since it is spoiler material). And the plot, oh my god. It was so amateurish... Like a bunch of children sat down and listed a plot that they thought was clever, while it was really just incredibly lame.I will not spoil the disappointment for you. Let me just say that I hated everything about it.

I give it two out of ten. I feel this is the right grade.

One of the worse ghost stories that I have seen in recent years. I was not scared at all.

The filmmakers did a lackluster job with the film. It had a lot to it. A woman comes to Singapore to find out why her sister took her life and finds clues that something supernatural was involved. Not a hard story to follow, but then they added in this extra story about a group of priest looking into someone using computers to recreate the tower of Babel, The stories interconnected real badly and I could not tell you how the filmmakers drop the ball with what could have been a touch down.

It's not scary and it does not give me goosebumps or creeps me out. It falls too flat to be any worth watching.

It is unbelievable how bad this movie is. It is Literally the first time i watch a movie, and couldn't wait for it to end as soon as possible.

Starting with how bad the little girl's acting was. I mean, you would think that she would learn from other young actors on how to act, but not this one, she was awful all the way from start to end.

Then comes the Asian actors, they were so amateur in their acting, and sometimes even not trying!!.

I really miss the old days when horror movies made me come out of the theatre thinking Holy Crap, will I be able to sleep tonight!!!.

Conclusion: Don't waste your time watching this, Seriously.

The movie was decent, OK there are 1-2 bad scenes like in the beginning of the movie, but roughly the movie was nice It has pretty decent horror scenes, and interesting content. But the exorcist scenes were absolutely awful in all ways,with a bizarre acoustic and stupid text.

The movie it's underrated, because of the dumb trailer in my opinion deserves 5/10 points,its not a masterpiece but you won't waste your time watching it :D

I enjoyed The Maid (2020) and thought Kelvin Tong directed it. Boy was I wrong. He apparently directed The Maid (2005). Because I'm a Western person, I made the stupid mistake of thinking this film - The Offering - set in Singapore was related to the 2020 Thai film when it was directed by the same person as the 2005 Chinese film. Oops.

ANYWAY, I suffered for my ignorance. The Faith of Anna Waters i.e. The Offering (2016) is an absolutely trite and mediocre Americanized Hollywood film set in Singapore. 90 percent of the characters are white people and everyone speaks American English. The writing is bad, the dialogue is wooden, and the actors portraying the child and the ex-husband characters can't even act.

The only thing that compelled me to continue watching is that I genuinely wanted to know what the heck was going on with the mystery behind the film's events. There are a few genuinely scary, disturbing or gross parts but overall the best thing about the film is the house where most of it takes place. Yeah.