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Directed by Adam MacDonald
A brilliant, brooding and flat-out frightening supernatural chiller from the producers of modern horror classics The Witch and The Void, featuring The Walking Dead’s Laurie Holden. After her father dies, teenager Leah is forced, by her unstable mother, to leave her friends behind and move to a house in the woods. Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother. Terrified by strange occurrences, and stricken by guilt, Leah desperately tries to reverse the spell, but soon realizes she has awoken something in the woods... and nothing can prepare her for the terror that has been unleashed.
Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother.
Cast: Nicole Munoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne
Member Reviews
Well-done teen angst horror. Moral: do not perform black magick rituals, it will not go well for you.
Well-done teen angst horror. Moral: do not perform black magick rituals, it will not go well for you.
Loved it, kind of a slow burn (literally)
Great!
This was more a psychological thriller than a supernatural horror. I think recategorizing this film to a different genre would make many viewers less disappointed. Personally, I enjoyed it. A slow burn, yes, but a raging fire 🔥 at the end. Pun intended. And for all the people that said she knew how to get rid of it and she still chose not to? She was going to do the reverse ritual but got interrupted by seeing something in the woods and things got hairy from there on out. I would definitely recommend this film, as long as the viewer goes in knowing it’s really not a creature feature.