kendra_foxtrot The Good: 1. A witch with a meat grinder is always cool in my book. 2. The urban legend that breaking a window by throwing a rock at the witch's house will bring the wrath of the Wicked upon you was a good premise. 3. The lesbian who claims she isn't was a pretty unique and funny character.The Bad: 1. This movie tries to have too many heroes (the brothers, the lesbian and the hot chick) 2. the witch's house is not old or scary, 3. the "magic" subplot and magician grandfather were not necessary, 4. the abducted little girl should have been killed or omitted from the story because it was completely dumb that she was still alive, 5. the abducted kids inexplicably end up cocooned with apples in their mouths and 6. the witch teleporting in a dark wispy CGI cloud was overdone and cartoonish. I feel like this movie did not know what it wanted to be. Did it want to be an urban legend or a fable? Did it want to be PG or R rated? It tried to explain too much and then left a lot unexplained. If you want a witch movie that scares the crap out of you, this is not the one.

loomis78-815-989034 This movie centers on an old town ghost story that the abandoned house in the woods is occupied by the spirit of a witch. The local kids use it as a dare to go out there and break the windows which is told will invoke the witch's spirit. When a young girl named Amanda (Caitlin Carmichael) disappears after doing just that, the locals blame it on the legend of the witch. This doesn't stop Zach (Deeley) from taking his friends out to the site to party, have sex and then of course break the windows of the house. Before you can say "eye of newt" the group is being captured and killed by the CGI witch as they try to escape and save the imprisoned Amanda. The by-the-numbers story and cardboard characters don't help this pretty predictable movie that makes it tough to find a character to side with. The closest we come to is Zach's younger brother Max played by Devon Werkheiser and his spunky tomboy girlfriend played by talented actress Diana Hopper. The mostly CGI witch doesn't do much in the way of getting scares, but the movie does paint the screen red at times with the demise of a few characters. It just seems like writer Michael Vickerman should have written one more draft of this script to iron out the bumps and a shorter running time could have turned this into a nice B flick to enjoy. The movie is well made and certainly watchable, but the undercooked script and story drain it from truly being effective.

Randal This is a typical teen slasher flick, pretty girls, handsome normal guys, a couple smart people, others rather dumb, enough likable characters to feel a bond. Only the producers actually bothered to interject an unusual take on the killer. I like that.For entertainment - meaning zoning out of the real world filled with professional liars running fake national news operations and nudging the country into humanist neo-communism for happy ignorant airheads - the plot, acting and pace pulled me in for the entire ride. Tons of movies get higher ratings from viewers though are far inferior to this product that is pulling in a 3.7 out of 10 overall at IMDb.On the flip side, I could easily have gotten the point in one part minus quite the level of visual bloodshed. Otherwise, no major complaints at all. I wrote this tiny blurb to help balance out the harsh comments by critics of a rather fine film.

HorrorBuff235 This film has some awful reviews, personally I found the opening scenes creepy, the beginning I skipped a lot of acting was poor, cringeworthy and boring. After they get to the woods it gets a bit better. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it becomes a masterpiece in any way, shape or form, but if you like the 'Urban legend type story where teens get captured & then fight their way out' it gives you that - a bit tense and creepy in places. As I mentioned before I skipped along a few bits that were boring me and watched the more 'horror' bits and for me that made the film a lot better! As someone else said 'watch it drunk and it will be more fun'....