A Haunting on Gabriel Street

THE SIGIL is another garden variety found footage horror film in which a group of rather detestable teenage characters visit a haunted house in order to find answers to a historical mystery. Unfortunately for them, all they discover is death, destruction, and madness, as the shadow of the supernatural rears its ugly head...

Yep, we're in predictable found footage territory here, complete with shaky camera work and lots of nasal whining and screaming from the irritating protagonists. Sadly, THE SIGIL turns out to be almost completely derivative as a film, featuring the usual run-of-the-mill possession type plot developments and an almost entire lack of action and incident until the very last moments. It's a complete bore, in other words.

The positive reviews posted must be plants because try as I could I could not watch it in it's entirety being forced to skip over most of it. It is a no budget with shaky video, rushed lines (bad acting) super annoying nasal whiny voices, no suspense and or believable outcomes. Really, I applaud the effort but it really is that bad. If you want to waste your time seeing how someone that has no filming experience put together a movie this is it. I have to fill out ten lines so I must put in more negative things about the movie as try as I may can't figure out much to say positive, even the girls that I am guessing are supposed to be attractive and make you want to watch this turd destroy whatever positive physical attributes with their annoying behavior, nasal whine and bad acting. So here it is, ten or more lines of this is a bad one.

I must admit that as I sat down to watch the 2013 movie "The Sigil" (aka "A Haunting on Gabriel Street") I wasn't expecting it to be a shoddy 'found footage' movie. Had I known it to be so, I would have skipped on it as I absolutely loathe this particular subgenre of horror movie.

But I sat down to watch "The Sigil" without knowing what I was in for, aside from it being a horror movie. So writers Brandon Cano-Errecart and Nathan D. Snyder had every opportunity to impress me with this movie.

And boy was it quite the opposite. Not only was "The Sigil" a laughable and dubious 'found garbage' movie, but it was also an incredibly boring and pointless movie. I have to say that the storyline as written by Brandon Cano-Errecart and Nathan D. Snyder just utterly failed to capture my interest, and the storyline offered nothing interesting in any aspect.

Not even the characters in the movie were interesting. Actually they were effectively just drones milling about in the movie. While I wasn't familiar with anyone on the cast list, I wasn't impressed with the performances put on here. But then again, the actors and actresses had everything stacked against them; from 'found footage' genre, horrible writing, bad dialogue, pointless characters and just a total lack of anything even remotely scary or watchable.

Visually then "The Sigil" felt like something shot with a budget barely covering lunch expenses for those acting in the movie. It was horribly low budget and there were no special effects. Well, unless you consider a camera that was so wobbly and shaky that even a blind man would get nausea as being a special effect.

"The Sigil" is a movie that you might want to skip on. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the waste of time, money and effort. "The Sigil" simply is not worth it.

My rating of the 2013 horror movie "The Sigil" lands on a very generous two out of ten stars.