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I was forced to watch it dubbed, as AmazonPrime only had dubbed version. The dubbing was anime-quality, absolutely atrocious.

The story itself took much longer to get to its central hook than I expected, and once it did get there, it proceeded to do very little. Pretty much almost nothing actually happened apart from the finding of the old woman naked in the woods, Zoya. It's from her repeated ramblings that we pretty much get all the real exposition.

Beyond that, nothing that actually happened seemed in any way connected to the "The Widow" concept at all. We barely even see much of anything beyond some musical stings, people acting strangely, and eyes going black.

The image on the poster is essentially a lie, as nothing appears in the film that looks like that. This whole thing has elements of The Blair Witch Project, but with somehow even less actual stuff going on.

I came into this movie with low expectations and was happily surprised. One review said it was like Blair With Project, which I have owned both movies so I would know. This was better then Blair Witch. I would not say it was scary, the word creepy kept jumping into my head when something bad would happen. It was a perfect amount of creepy to make it a good, just not a great movie. I love to be scared and although I didn't jump, I was definitely creeped out. This movie was a bit slow for my pace but enjoyable all the same if you like scary movies that creep you out. Any movie that can make a creepy haystack disappear has got my vote. Also one person mentioned Trump in the background, obviously only watched the first and then threw in a towel. Let's get reviews from people that watch the movie the whole way through please!

I am having a hard time getting through this movie. It's not really a Blair Witch clone, but something obviously inspired by it. The story seems like it might be interesting, but the dubbing is a crime unto itself, making the movie near unwatchable. It's like someone took a horror movie and then get laid the soundtrack to an old Scooby Doo episode over top. Absolutely atrocious.

I think I will restart from the beginning with the TV muted, closed captions on, and maybe try to synch up Dark Side of the Moon, see how that works. I want to watch it, but I don't want characters in mortal terror sounding like a high school cheer squad.

Watch with subtitles if you have a choice. The voice dubbing is pretty distracting. At least in the beginning. It's worth a watch though. If you're bored and have nothing else.

This is a good movie that is deeply wounded by terrible dubbing. It would've been much better off subtitled. The dubbing alters the mood and turns what, no doubt, is a creepy movie oozing atmosphere into a much lighter adventure. For example a minor role of a young boy sounds like a cartoon mouse and there are instances of laughing or other non-word utterances like oohs and ahs that sound on!y cartoony. But it's not just these instances but the entire dialogue that is ruined. It comes off sounding more like an episode of Scooby Doo and less like the tense and atmospheric folk horror that is is.

A subtitled version of this movie would gain at least a star and possibly two but as it stands now its a real stretch to give it the six I did. I do think it's potentially a great little movie and I tried hard to ignore the laughable dubbing when rating it.