Conjuring Curse

This film is atrociously bad. It had the skill of a group of teenagers wno decided to film the first thing they could think over a weekend and then released the result commerically.

There is no technical aptitude on display here. The directing is awful. The writing is atrocious. The acting is below amateurish and the editing is non-existent.

We are treated to an opening that goes on far too long with a woman prowling around some trees trying to look scary for about 5 minutes. That's literally the opening sequence.

From there, it goes down hill. At one point, there is a break for a rocjk song which the band performs in its entireity with a static camera and for a lot of the time they have their backs to the camera. Why?? It makes no sense, is really boring to watch and makes you wonder if the true "horror" of the film is trying to sit through it.

But it gets worse. After the band have been and gone, we're then treated to a rave scene with 4 or 5 new people which alos lasts for a good 5 minutes and then those people leave the movie too.

Who on Earth thought it a good idea to include these segments? Couldn't they figure out how to write some dialogue instead? Couldn't they figure out not to have the lead singer singing with his back to the camera while he just stands there?

Couldn't they figure out how bad this film was?

Utterly terrible. It can't even be used to teach film students What Not To Do as everything it does is obviously the wrong thing to do that everyone in the world could have told the filmmakers not to do it.

Avoid at all costs.

This is a homemade film. The beginning is so bad and boring and it is really dumb. We wasted money on this and should have read the reviews first. No hate forward the kids because they are young and are amateur. The music is bad and they use really bad effects. I would have them stick to having the professionals make movies.

It was bad like I can never get the 15 minutes back ..... I try to watch the movie but only got 15 minutes in the movie and turn it off...I have to sell this movie now because I can't keep this so called movie ....please don't watch this.... the new Resident evil movie welcome to raccoon city is so much better and that movie was not even a resident evil film.

Save yourself the time of watching this. It is possibly the worst film I've ever seen. We start with hokey 20's style silent film, some Tarantino-esque scratched film effects, an awful few minutes of rock track, and the villain of the piece is pretty much a wardrobe. Acting is terrible (the kids out-acted the adults.) Only thing I actually liked was the retro score which sounded straight out of a hammer flick.

Placed in a rural community, a house supposedly housing the spirit of a malicious witch accused of killing and eating children becomes the site of various grisly and supernatural incidents throughout the years, forcing a group of friends to come together to stop the curse from continuing.

Overall, this one was an enjoyable enough effort. One of the film's best features is the opening flashbacks detailing the origins of the curse. Not only is the storyline setup here quite chilling and a reasonable small-town backstory about the witch living in the area and attacking children, the scenes recreating these events as well as the skeletal remains discovered offer up a lot to like. This gets the film going on a nice note with an immediate and creepy supernatural explanation. That this then builds to a series of fun and chilling encounters within the house. Going from the kids' game of hide-and-seek where they find one trapped in a closet before chased off by demonic voices or the rock band crashing there for the night who get killed off using their instruments have some solid suspense mixed with some gruesome indie-flavored kills. As well, the attacks on the ravers who are tricked into killing themselves are immensely clever and quite well-realized, making for a chilling segment with how it plays out. The last segments here are quite fun, featuring the lost couple who get stranded at night and find themselves forced to stay there or the group of friends who gather in the present to stop the curse, offering up plenty to like. The suspense of the couple alone in the eerie house by themselves while coming under the curses' influence creates some great ideas at play, while the sudden shock ambushes on the friends lead to some chilling moments. Combined with a unique format here, this one has a lot to like that holds it up. There wasn't a whole lot to dislike here, and what's there isn't too detrimental anyway. The films' biggest problem is the film's abandoning of the traditional haunted house formula to tell the story of various random people encountering the house at various points in time and getting killed off. This can make for a jarring and somewhat chaotic storyline here where the shift to random characters and events can feel like unrelated segments slapped together with no coherent throughline. With its indie tone and feel coming through clearly, these can hold this one back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.