Woodyanders Willful young Jennifer Cassi (a sturdy performance by Gina Philips of "Jeepers Creepers" fame) travels to South America to claim the inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister Johanna's house. While there Jennifer must contend with her eccentric grandmother Mary Ellen Cassi (well played to the bitter and quirky hilt by Faye Dunaway), an evil witch who has placed an ancient deadly curse on the family. Jennifer immediately begins to suffer from scary visions of a sinister raven every time she goes to sleep. Writers/director Daniel de la Vega and Pablo Pares relate the absorbing story at a deliberate pace and do a bang-up job of creating and sustaining a potently brooding and mysterious gloom-doom atmosphere that becomes more increasingly grim, morbid, and unsettling as the narrative unfolds towards an extremely tense and harrowing last third. The edgy chemistry between the strong female leads really holds this picture together; they receive fine support from Duilio Marzio as helpful cemetery caretaker Dario Bardevil, Nicholas Pauls as the friendly Roberto, and Hilda Bernard as the frail, sickly Aunt Emma. Moreover, there are several nice'n'nasty bits of grisly gore sprinkled throughout. The dismal mansion setting projects a genuine sense of eerie menace and the raven is truly frightening. Monty Rowan's grayish washed-out cinematography gives the movie an appropriately spooky'n'shadowy look. Micha Liberman's classy and shivery violin-heavy score hits the shuddery spot. The bleak ending packs a wickedly upsetting punch. A worthwhile fright film.

EmmanKiddo Over a year trying to find my copy of chronicle of the raven, and now i finally got it. It is a great horror film i love it, the film is pretty original, not a remake or something unoriginal u will find in this Gothic gem. I love the story it was pretty interesting,original and creepy, the atmosphere is something to die for is one of the best things in this beautiful film, the acting was pretty good Gina Philips (jeepers creepers, ring around the Rossie) she did a great job her acting was very believable as always, Faye Dunaway (chinatown) she was fabulous and fantastic. And the other actors were so, so but they were decent. Thought that the film was a little slow at parts but that doesn't matter this film is one of the best Gothic horror i've seen recently. It is a hidden Gothic horror gem this film is worth watching, renting or buying. It is a big surprise the film is hard to found believe me but try to find it u will be impressed and u will not be disappointed, like i said it is a hidden Gothic gem. I gave it a 8/10

rossini1868 What few actors that were in the movie all had a good feel for this deep, psychological horror story. It involves a family curse, that takes members of a wealthy family to a place worse than death. Faye Dunaway sells this perverted material but is at times hilarious, with flashes of campy brilliance, (especially near the end). If you like simple, inspired horror stories, a la Rod Serling, then this is for you. Its too bad our American audiences don't care enough about intelligent, disturbing stories like this one. The bitchiness between sexy Gina Philips and hot older mama Faye Dunaway is wicked and classic.

howt_me This movie was a littttle confusing at first. I usually like Gina Phillips, but this one I have to say was a bad choice just like her doing the movie Ring Around the Rosie, that one also not one her good movies. Jeepers Creepers was way better. Anyway, Faye Dunaway was good. She totally creeped me out and at the end, that was crazy. It was about Jennifer Cassi(Phillips) who comes to her twin sisters funeral. She stays at a house that her sister owns and her grandmother(Dunaway) lives at with an Aunt named Emma. Mary Ellen(Dunaway) is kinda sacrificing her relations to stay alive and as long as she wants to live, she can't die. Even if Jennifer tries to kill her, which she tries. Ravens have a weird part in it. When the relations go to sleep, the Ravens eat there organs, so they can't go to sleep. But they do. Basically it all crazy and Mary Ellen will never die and her relations will be buried, but not dead, b/c they have to suffer forever so Mary Ellen can stay alive. Yeah, I hope this helps. If it doesn't, sorry. Love ya.