Sacrilege

Any true horror fan should give this film at least one full viewing. Things I loved: The tense atmospheric soundtrack A pretty unique plot and a solid plot twist ending. Spooky visuals. The music from the box, the imagery, and the box itself were excellent. Things that needed improving: The plot pacing, however once the movie hit it stride it stayed strong and had my attention. I think for the budget this movie was fantastic as far as the horror genre is concerned. I personally found it to be better than the recently released big budget The Beguiled. I would have easily paid $7 at a movie theater to watch this film and I would have walked away happy with what i watched. Looking forward to more films from this director.

**No spoilers**

Per the movie's description, it's about a girl who buys a dybbuk box thinking its a jewelry box. The movie cover has absolutely nothing to do with the movie. There are no nuns or sacrilegious ceremonies depicted in the movie. The first few minutes and a brief verbal description midway are your only backstory to the box. I get nauseated from the faintest sight of fake gore and I can assure you, you'll see nothing nauseating in this movie. The ending is a drop off, where you really don't know wtf happened or will happen. The movie does not leave you with any what-if's except, 'What could I have accomplished by not watching this movie?" The series "A Haunting" did this with commercials back in 2013 and it only took them an hour. I prefer "A Haunting"s version much better too.

Watched tons of low budget horror films. Watched a lot of bad stuff... a lot. Sacrilege doesn't fit that category. I dare say this one is that rare low budget indie movie you come across every so often. Acting is great. Liked the leads a lot. Very believable for the horror genre. The score and sound is really top notch. Story wise it starts out somewhat familiar, but by time you get to the second act it goes in unexpected places and becomes something else.

If I had any gripe, it would be the single location. I know its a haunted house movie but it would've been nice if the filmmakers opened it up just a tad more. So 8 out of 10, definitely worth checking out.

There's only one reliable review out here... You know how these things work nowadays... Well, what can I say... All things beyond are my personal opinions. Let that be clear up front.

It's bad. It's all bad. Story is thin as can be. Acting is bad. The "atmosphere" is bad. Low budget isn't an excuse for making bad movies. Often on the contrary. But in this case it just implies all the stuff mentioned before. I'm sorry, for me it was a total mess...

What initially drew me in to watch "Sacrilege" was the poster/cover for the movie. It shows a ghostly nun with some Satanic imagery as well. So it did seem like it could have the potential to be a rather interesting movie, and I must say that the poster/cover was quite nicely made and looked rather professional.

The movie, well it didn't really fully live up to what I had expected it to be. Was it better? Nope, most definitely not. The movie is adequate, I will say that much, it just turned out to be something rather different from what I thought it would be. And the movie's poster/cover has absolutely nothing to do with the movie, so disregard this from being connected to the movie. It only serves as bait to lure you in.

I will say that the production value of the movie was quite good and it was definitely one of the stronger aspects of the movie. Especially so since the storyline itself was very generic and mundane. If you have seen other movies that involve supernatural entities and hauntings, then you already know what you are in for here. Don't expect to be surprised in any way.

As for the acting in the movie, well people were doing adequate jobs with their given roles and characters. I wasn't familiar with anyone on the cast list, which usually works well for me and in favor of the movie; as I enjoy watching new talents in movies.

The music in the movie was a bit too over-dramatic and was bordering on being downright annoying at times. Sure, it was supposed to supplement the suspense and intensity of the movie, but what they thinking with some of the music they opted for? And it was also a bit too loud compared to the dialogue.

"Sacrilege" is a rather bland and mediocre movies in this particular genre. It was adequately entertaining enough for what it was, just don't get your hopes up too high for this movie.

The storyline was predictable and straight forward. And there were no twists or turns to the storyline along the way, which made for a rather plain and plotted course throughout the movie. The pacing of the movie was rather slow, but at least things were happening.

All in all, then "Sacrilege" is a below average movie for this particular genre. There are far better movies available if you enjoy this genre of movies.