Heks

Cheaply made, horrible acting, insulting jump scares that aren't even scary, boring and awfully executed plot from the beginning to end. I sat through this excruciatingly mediocre movie because I just took in account the movie rating and not read the reviews. Pretty obvious now that the reviews with more than 3 stars are completely fake.

Viewer beware.

Why do only 2 people sound like they're from SA? 30 minutes into this and I'm almost asleep. Horror movies cannot have scare gaps with 30-45 minutes to build the story unless the plot is epic and your star is Tom Hanks etc

So i feel very conflicted about this film. Obviously being South African i want our films to be good and give them the benefit of the doubt but my god was this the most generic jump scare-type horror movie.

I dont think i've ever sighed so many times during a film just because of how predictable the "scares" were going to be. I think the story, writing, pacing and the performance of the film could've been way way better. I was confused half of the time thinking "wtf is this film actually about?" The concept was solid, I just think the execution of it all wasn't done any justice

There are some positives from it in my opinion. Most of the technical side of things were done well. Even though its not groundbreaking cinematography, i still think it was shot beautifully. Lovely setting. The lighting and sound was great. OH MY GOD the production and costume design!! Probably the best thing about this film for me.

So yeah i think where it fell short in the feeling, it made up for it in the technical aspects. I'm not judging it too harshly because I personally think horror is fairly new to South African film (e.g. Tokoloshe, 8, Rage etc) so obviously there's gonna be some duds here and there. Overall not baaad movie but also not a good one too, the typical horror tropes were a bit overkill lmaoo. Also i saw one of my lecturers in this and i legit lost my mind laughing so there's that.

For a film that checks in less than an hour and an half, this laughably described horror movie was tedious and boring. I love the genre, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Theres barely any tension in the flick and it's just a continual series of unscary pop up jump scares. Seriously an absolute chore to sit through, and I agree with others here the positive reviews must surely be fake.

I found this movie interesting yet a tad confusing. I think my partner enjoyed this more than me since, being from Africa she understood more of the folklore behind what was going on when I was a bit lost since it wasn't explained very well.