Wake the Witch

In short this is one of the worst indie films I have ever seen if not THE worst. The above review was actually written by one of the films crew members. So, with that said, the fact they had to trump up a "glowing" review will tell you how sad this "horror" film really is. Slow, boring, and filled with painfully bad actors, confusing shots, and a wretched score. This "movie" is more like a visit to the dentist for a root canal than a clever stylized horror film. Gaudy, stupid, and just plain irritating. Don't waste your time. Get the perfect popcorn, turn out the lights, but watch something else. Figure skating will have you more on your seat than this piece of crap.

Wake The Witch is one of those indie horrors easily viewable on Youtube and I gave it ago expecting the worst.

I immediately was drawn in, the characters were good, it looked the part and the musical score was deeply creepy.

The trouble is this didn't last, the plot makes very little sense and this becomes evident before the half way mark.

Again to it's credit the score is great, but sadly it's repeated throughout the film and becomes a bit much.

The lead was excellent, she made the film bearable but this is her only movie credit which is a shame.

The ending is dreadful and really is the cherry ontop of this mess.

The Good:

Memorable haunting score

Excellent lead

The Bad:

Memorable haunting score gets very repetitive

Loses steam early

Plot makes no sense

It was filmed in 2010 but the quality is on par with a Canadian college students film from 1992.

The lead and her two friends are pretty decent and believable.

The supporting cast is mostly awful, especially Deb's mom... How was she cast? Is it one of the crews actual mom?

The lighting, shot frames, and sound quality are pretty terrible. It kind of reminds me of a highschool safety video.

It's 2010 but they use flip phones? The funniest scene was a piece of paper glued on to the screen of the same flip phone I had in 1999. It was supposed to be a message on the display... Hilarious.

It might have worked better as a found footage.

This is not a real movie, this is someone's idea of a joke. First of all the quality of the film must be someone's camcorder with the sound quality in accordance. There are no special effects unless you count Halloween Spider webbing and Fake Blood and even that has no relation to the scenes involved. The acting, (if you can call it that), is worse than a school play. There is not one good thing about this movie and believe me when I tell you I've even liked movies that received bad reviews.

I watched this so called movie to the end and the more I watched the madder I got at the lying reviews of anyone who said anything positive about it.

NOT WORTH EVEN A RENTAL!

Wake the Witch is a carefully crafted pile of crap, fabricated in my home town of Lincoln, Nebraska. I went to the first screening of Wake the Witch, expecting to see a sincerely and locally made, low budget, horror film. What I got, was an honest to God obligation to channel Tom Servo, Crow, Mike and Joel to make the film even the least bit tolerable.

As even a devout Troma fan, I can say that I can, at the very least, appreciate a bad film. This goes beyond anything ever seen before. Characters that DEFY you to like them, a plot that changes when ever it was on the verge of being coherent, and music that lacks any sort of atmosphere. I truly believe that if Ed Wood were with us today, he would tell these people to stop making movies all together.

I will sum up my Wake the Witch experience with this anecdote. Within minutes, I realized what garbage this movie was, and loudly berated it with the people sitting around me as we sat in the front row. After our unrelenting assault on this film, and the lights went up, I saw the lead "actress" and her parents behind me, all three well aware of what I had been doing, and not only did I truly feel no remorse, I expected an apology from them for what I was just subjected to.

In summation, it is worth a rental. The best case scenario for Wake the Witch is that in 20 years it gets the treatment that Troll 2 gets now.