The Hexecutioners

I like this film, because it is a good surprise to me; I mean the scheme, the plot, that you won't see anywhere. That's what I expect the most in a film: being surprised. But the horror element was too much for my taste, I quite did not follow everything and the overall result is not my cup of tea. However, I repeat, this plot remains interesting, and it's a shame that is seems to be so underrated. I still don't know if I could recommend it to someone else, because this kind of scheme doesn't fit to everyone. But you can try, precisely for the offbeat story that this film proposes. Good effort and "courage" from the producers anyway.

I am not sure if anyone mentioned this but the lead's name was the first thing I picked up on... Malison, some might think its a combination of Melissa and Allison or Malory and Allison, but it comes from old latin (as if it could be anything else) Maledicere meaning to speak badly of a man or a male figure. However in the 13th century after Malison became gender neutral, and was being used more often, it took on a new meaning, in today's webster, the word Malison means CURSE, TO CURSE or CURSED.

So using it as a First Name, was creatively a good idea, I can see how it might have been overlooked by the audience, specially since Malison is not something one hears in a day to day conversation, besides it has largely been supplanted by its younger cousin MALEDICTION.

The story centres on two young women recruited into a euthanasia company; Malison, (Liv Collins) a timid girl who does it because she needs the money; and Olivia, a cynical street-wise woman who, well, just does it. The job in hand just happens to be at the usual creepy Gothic mansion, overseen by the usual creepy keeper, Edgar, (Tim Burd) who instructs the women that the death must be carried out to a strict ritual.

It should be said that there is no problem with the acting which is superb, even by the minor characters, but some of the CGI is not so good and then there is the supernatural element when faceless figures appear and then there is the little girl. Also, some things do not add up. For instance, rooms which are pitch black suddenly have lots of lit candles - how does that happen? The ending, for me anyway, did not make much sense, but by then I was losing interest. A pity because it could have been different.

This film starts off fairly straightforward. Euthanasia has been legalized and two young, attractive women, who carry out this work, have been assigned a job at a large creepy mansion. It reveals that this place and it's owners are involved in some sort of dark Himalayan (I think) cult and it all gets very weird and hard to follow. Visually it's OK so rather try and understand the plot I just went along that. Strange film, I wouldn't waste my time trying to understand it with a second viewing.

Given the movie's cover, I must admit that I was immediately lured in. The promise of a horror movie is always something that gets my attention. I hadn't heard about this movie prior to finding it. I didn't read the synopsis, I just picked it up and decided to give it a go.

Somewhat of a mistake on my side. Because this movie was horribly boring and pointless. The movie started out rather well, but then it fell into a seemingly endless spiral and never recovered, and the movie just kept getting more and more boring as it progressed.

So boring that I turned it off with only about 10 minutes remaining. I was ready to call it quits at 1 hour into the ordeal, but decided against it in the slight hope that the movie would improve. It didn't!

"The Hexecutioners" offers nothing of any interest at any level. Well, aside from it actually having fairly adequate acting performances from a rather small and limited crew of performing actors and actresses. Just a shame that they had absolutely nothing to work with in terms of script and storyline.

My rating of 3 out of 10 is solely based on the production level of the movie, because that was rather good. Everything else in the movie, not so good.

This movie is not one that I could or would recommend that you waste your time, money or effort on. I did, and I regret it horribly.