info-31034 Wow... This film is horrific! And not in a good way.A new house, a terrible secret, some hammy acting, some badly bled color grading.Curse Of The Witching Tree is difficult to watch, not least because its just so awful.The acting is not too bad, not too bad compared with the story. The kids are pretty good, but there is this overtly sexual tone that is not there other than to score votes and maybe titillate the director.I really can't say enough bad things about this film, it actually hurts my head just thinking about what I've just watched. To the director, I don't care enough to search his name, please do not do this again.

elizrug This film has a decent plot but it falls apart because of all the film's other faults. We all love a good spooky tale about witches and ghosts. It's a shame the acting is so bad. It's almost painful to watch and I wasn't able to even finish the film. I actually got to the climactic ending and turned it off. There are too many "dramatic" pauses where the camera is focused on the blank faces of the characters. There is no sense of "realness" at all--not in the dialogue, not in the actions. Obviously no one can say anything about realism in regards to how to live in a situation with hauntings like this, but there is either a lack of expression or exaggerated over-expression by the actors. The actress who plays the daughter looks older than the one who plays the mother. Characters who are petulant (and I'm not talking about the kid) with absurd lines makes this cringe-worthy. The scares are boring and trite.Save your time, see another movie.

Monsieur Tabernac After watching this film, I see it less as a feature film, but more of a resume for the director, as he strives to get a job as a professional filmmaker.This is undoubtedly a amateur/homemade production: the cast seems to outnumber the crew (with possibly some overlap) and the writer/director, James Crow, also credits himself as producer, cinematographer, editor, casting (big giveaway there) and lyric writer.So as a resume, I say well done. You obviously have quite a bit of technical skill -- the horror scenes were generally well done and your framing wasn't bad (you didn't overdo it with the closeups, for example). I hope somebody in "the biz" notices and gives you a position as assistant or third-unit director on a future project.As a film, however, it is less than stellar. The acting really is bad. As more than one reviewer has noted, the film is awash with over-acting (for example, the nurse warning our heroes not to get too optimistic about their father's recovery from a coma. Cringeworthy!) The lead actress isn't bad, but most of the others seem more like friends of the director than professional actors. The plot is a bit confused, and our director doesn't really help make some events less difficult to comprehend (especially the ending, as it seems blinking at the wrong time may make you miss something pivotal) . Dialogue is somewhat pointless too.Some nicely done set pieces make some of this film watchable, but I really wouldn't recommend it as entertainment.

lazylob Don't get me wrong, i'm British and i like nothing more than watching a home-grown movie. But this... I don't know where to start, the acting is like watching a school play, over exaggerated movements which are comical, the dialogue is stilted and amateur. Some members of the cast are supposed to be school children and plainly look about 25, it's insulting and unbelievable. Technically it's.... well i don't know, it's..... not technical at all. The dialogue is all captured using ambient microphones, you can barely hear the dialogue in places due to traffic, bird song or the wind. The whole thing is shot in what appears to be a lovely country house but whomever actually owns it (probably one of the producers, director or 'mate of') has obviously blown all their money purchasing or renting the property because inside the refurbishment is as poor as the acting. Who the hell would spend 3 million on a house and then put a 'Beko' fridge in it? The floor coverings, doors, door frames and skirting boards are straight out of a 90's new build house and not fitting at all with the period of the house. All in all i'd say the first 1,000 people who rated this movie are friends and family of the people who worked on it, certainly not the people who worked on it themselves because i doubt that would amount to more than 35 including the cast. What Budget? What script? What lighting? what score? What sound engineer?It's like something produced by First year Bradford film School students, and that's an insult to Bradford Film School students as to date, they've not produced anything this appalling to my knowledge