The Cleansing

I enjoyed this film, it was never boring for me. It's definitely better than most low-budget movies.

The settings in the forest and small village were nicely chosen for this type of movie, and the costumes are realistic for the historical time setting. And there is nothing seriously wrong with the plot, the direction, the acting or the screenwriting.

This movie is far better than an average rating of mere 4.4. It's a pleasant coincidence that I stumbled upon this movie today. Someone expecting malevolent spirits haunting the village or a teenage witch chanting mantras in the middle of a forest with a candle burning next to a human skull, will be sorely disappointed. It is as much about science and religious dogma as much as it is about not turning the other cheek and let go the perpetrators of evil scot-free.

It had a really good start to movie. Great story line and a little different from some movies. I love biblical type movies but the middle and end of this movie was horrible. It was extremely slow. The ending wasn't satisfying.

The Cleansing is a very neat looking film (on the DVD cover), the plot's basically about a plague and obviously the first suspect is a witch, people back then didn't have any idea of germs or how disease was spread so the plot in that sense is at least a bit feasible.

Unfortunately despite its decent enough premise the film fails in the fun department instead going for a more serious and therefore corny story. However, the acting whilst not the best wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and just about holds together.

Many missed opportunities for horror elements and decides to go for a more mystery based plot, with a lot of unnecessary character building scenes (especially when we find out who her new friend is) but I actually didn't mind the twist and at least it made the film a bit more memorable than perhaps it would be.

3/10: Technically a bad film but I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching this

Everything that happens is so predictable and unrealistic and the script writer is mostly to blame for this atrocity.