The Offering

One of the worse ghost stories that I have seen in recent years. I was not scared at all.

The filmmakers did a lackluster job with the film. It had a lot to it. A woman comes to Singapore to find out why her sister took her life and finds clues that something supernatural was involved. Not a hard story to follow, but then they added in this extra story about a group of priest looking into someone using computers to recreate the tower of Babel, The stories interconnected real badly and I could not tell you how the filmmakers drop the ball with what could have been a touch down.

It's not scary and it does not give me goosebumps or creeps me out. It falls too flat to be any worth watching.

The Offering is one of the worst horror movies I have seen in 2016. This one isn't as low budget as many of the crappy ones I have seen this year, but it sure takes the prize on being half-finished and sloppy. It is, in all fairness, also sort of an amateurish Indonesian production.

Even though it doesn't exactly look cheap, the entire project is, from a technical standpoint, utterly terrible. The cinematography and camera work is quite decent for the most part, but the acting, direction, plot and "scary" parts are dreadful. The horror part seems like a badly filmed spoof (the lighting is bad and the shots are often badly executed). The reactions of the characters are also incredibly unbelievable (no details given, since it is spoiler material). And the plot, oh my god. It was so amateurish... Like a bunch of children sat down and listed a plot that they thought was clever, while it was really just incredibly lame.I will not spoil the disappointment for you. Let me just say that I hated everything about it.

I give it two out of ten. I feel this is the right grade.

Right, well I watched this movie and it bore the title "The Faith of Anna Waters", but apparently it is really known as "The Offering"? Or so it would seem.

Well, regardless of the title, then this movie was rubbish. Pure and simple. It was uneventful, it was boring and it just lacked appeal and it was frightfully devoid of anything even remotely scary.

It was as it director and writer Kelvin Tong was following a dummy's guidebook of how-to-make-a-horror-movie. But he took it one step further, because everything that was supposed to be scary in the movie just turned out to be cheesy, campy and downright stupid.

I endured a horribly long hour of watching "The Offering", then I just had my share of stupidity on the screen. And I got up and turned it off, never to return to finish the rest of the movie. Why? Well, because the movie was so mundane, so generic, so pointless that it would be a waste of time and effort to return to watch the rest of it. It was a wonder in itself that I managed to sit through a whole hour of this ordeal. But I was hoping that director Kelvin Tong would swing a magical wand and make it all miraculously more interesting.

That just never happened.

The storyline told in "The Offering" was simplistic and easy to follow. Actually, it was so simplistic that it was sort of an insult to the audience, because we were served everything hand and foot, and it was presented in a manner so you didn't have to use your brain in any way. You just sat there, being spoon-fed the contents of the movie. A vile stew of generic storytelling made unwatchable.

The acting in the movie was fairly adequate, although the actors and actresses were indeed fighting a losing uphill battle against an atrocious storyline, a dreadfully boring script, and it didn't help that they were given shallow and pointless characters to portray on the screen and attempt to make interesting for the audience.

If you enjoy horror movies, you need to take heed and do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "The Offering".

It is unbelievable how bad this movie is. It is Literally the first time i watch a movie, and couldn't wait for it to end as soon as possible.

Starting with how bad the little girl's acting was. I mean, you would think that she would learn from other young actors on how to act, but not this one, she was awful all the way from start to end.

Then comes the Asian actors, they were so amateur in their acting, and sometimes even not trying!!.

I really miss the old days when horror movies made me come out of the theatre thinking Holy Crap, will I be able to sleep tonight!!!.

Conclusion: Don't waste your time watching this, Seriously.

Everyone pretty much had the same outcome with this movie. It's pretty awful. The story is terrible and doesn't connect, the acting isn't so much bad, but bland, therfore adding more boredom to a "scary" movie that isn't scary to begin with unfortunately. So I'm just gonna gripe about what I came here to gripe about... that dang little girl. OMG talk about prime example of a butterball face. Not to mention she's annoying as she is stupid in this movie. EVERY and I mean EVERY little creak or moan or well any noise for that matter that she hears she thinks it's the ghost of her "mommy" coming back. It's so annoying you just wanna punch her through the TV. Hell, you could play a drinking game with as many times as she says "mommy" I promise no one is making it out sober. So she's already got all these strikes working against her and on top of it all, the movie is terrible lol. Skip it if you value your time, if you're like me with too much time, then give it a go, at least time will get killed.