Pyewacket
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
i would watch again
if you love indie folk horror, this is the perfect flick for you. its just one of those movies so itself that it creates a nostalgia in you no matter how recently you've discovered it. its campy depiction of edgy teens, genuinely scary creature design, and quite dreadful conclusion really do stand out next to blockbuster hits.
Sooooo good! Excellent folk horror!
It’s enjoyable enough, but had the potential to be better. Solid acting, I dug where they were going with the creature, nice sound design and setting, and a solid if predictable plot…that could have been so much.
This movie is terrifying. As much as I like Freddy Krueger, Leatherface and Michael Myers; we all know that the proverbial “boogeyman” doesn’t exist. But with demonic possession and things to do with the spirit world, it’s completely horrific and believable because THEY DO EXIST and the spirit world is quite real. Which is why films like “The Exorcist” and “Pyewacket” are so scary.