Candlewood

I watched this so you don't have too. I usually love a campy scary movie. This was not it.

It started out intriguing. A blended city family moves to secluded home in woods. Each family member pushing boundaries with the other members of their family. Add legends about the area where they're now living to explain history of haunted land. So much potential to work with.

Then the movie loses the plot. Bad acting and weird special effects made for a long boring movie. It's like the director had a vision, but after 10 minutes got frustrated and quit trying. None of the characters had any redeeming qualities. The "story" had huge plot holes which I don't really care about, I was just glad it was over.

Well the cinematography is good. We can at least say that. Landscapes locations very well done actors not so much. Too much over acting. And it's so slow. I mean pick up the pace a little bit it's so slow. Anticipation to the next spooky point is just way over the top. I realize it's an independent feature. Low budget. All the locals doing background. Everybody wants to be in the movies. Very few people can pull it off and this crew have failed. So anyone who wants to make a film like this will you still have a shot of being better recognized for your work. Sad thing is person who wrote the script could not have possibly been satisfied with how it turned out on film.

This movie was terrible from start to finish. The acting was really bad and the dialogue was unrealistic. I say this because the step daughter and mother clearly hate eachother, but the kind of dialogue they have back and fourth would never fly in real life. And some of the actions/behaviours. The characters(specifically the parents) are excruciatingly unlikeable. As the movie goes on you don't grow to like them at all, in fact you hate them even more. The father's acting is perhaps the worst in the movie and he is just a complete jerk in every way. The wife is the most unlikeable as her character is an overall awful person. Her hateful/angry/jealous demeanour makes the movie intolerable. I've never seen a movie with characters just hating eachother and not grabbing the hearts of anyone.

What a total waste of 90 minutes! I would have stopped watching after the first 15 minutes if I hadn't been on a flight and it was the only thing I had downloaded unfortunately!

What a total sh@t show!!! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE joke of a movie!!! Who the heck paid to have this thing made?? I mean from the videography to the incredibly horrendous acting!! I don't know which was worse! It looked like something a teenager would have made in middle school MAYBE! The middle schooler prob would have done a better job!

Take my advice and Do not waste one minute of your time on this atrocity!!!

I was willing to give this a shot because it sounded interesting enough and New England does inspire some of the best horror.

However, the stereotypes start at the beginning and add up fast. Yuppy family moves to "the country". (Seriously, this is not the country. You can find this neighborhood in Google Maps. It's a fancy suburb.) There's a weird property manager and a slutty neighbor girl and a paranoid wife and on and on. I don't really know what happens because I bailed on it about a third of the way through.