Watch Over Us

Watch Over Us is one of those heavily budget restricted movies that makes up for not showing anything at all using clever camera tricks, well orchestrated sound effects and lots and lots of atmosphere.

It tells the story of a father struggling to take care of his two daughters, he can't find work and it's eating him up inside. To make matters worse something is going bump in the night and the more he investigates the closer he gets to a dark family secret.

Again though it's a horror which doesn't show anything, literally! It makes up for it in other areas and actually managed to not only entertain but unnerve and that's something I very rarely experience.

Okay beyond that the movie is flawed, it leaves much unexplained and is considerably too short!

Regardless because of the delivery this is a watchable effort though I'd have liked to see another 30 minutes at least to flesh out the story and offer a suitable finale.

Impressive but flawed.

The Good:

Very atmospheric

Some fantastic ideas

Great cast

The Bad:

Leaves too much unexplained

Too short

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Faust is a concept not touched upon enough in modern cinema

The best thing about this movie for me was the haunting music, some of the actors were quite good, especially the preacher character

The dialogue editing left something to be desired, the spooky voice was lame. The ending punch line was too garbled, you would think a spoken punch line would be enunciated enough so a person could understand what was being said for gods sake.

I think once again we have a movie that could have been better if the guy who did most of the work had allowed in some beta watching and or constructive criticism prior to releasing the movie.

Two things I DID appreciate was a devil style movie that was kind of creepy but without buckets of gore and blood. That being said, there was just a little too much left for the viewers imagination, it got a little old. Wondering what creepy thing a person is looking at once or twice is OK, but many times over is a cop out.

The other was that there is a misdirection on the perception of the main male character, which was well done.

The actors are good. The story is poor. The scary moments are super hokey. If you like good chemistry between actors, spend time with this one. But that's the only reason you should ever watch it. Filmed on location somewhere in the backwoods of Florida.