Pyewacket

2018 "Be careful what you wish for. Someone might be listening."
5.8| 1h28m| NR| en
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A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.

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Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
westsideschl The scariest part, and had nothing to do with the movie, was the DVD cover. Tactic seen before on extreme cheap productions. Storyline: Teen daughter and divorced mom argue over independence (what's new). Teen girl w/off the shelf book on the occult gets a chant (and she's apparently the only one who has done this?) to call up baddie spirit. The usual few drops of blood, say a few meaningless words, and done in the woods of course. Scaries: A couple scenes of a few seconds of shadow in darkened room. A few seconds of spider like crawling figure in distance. Friend has an unseen scary moment so we see her acting scared by sitting in car. Closing scenes has someone acting possessed in a really put-you-to-sleep boring way. Oh, and music and the required expectation of course.
degothia Dont even know where to start but i can say the great reviews this one has received have to be 100% fake. One hundred percent. Else the reviewers watched another movie.It isnt even worth calling this a movie.Absolutely nothing happens for and hour and twenty some minutes.Story is bad, script is worse and acting is aweful.Just dont watch.
fanan450 I must say , when I watched this movie I enjoyed a little ( just a little) , but I am not fully satisfied , although it has a promising good story from the beginning ,but unfortunately they didn't make it great and I don't know who to blame ,in my opinion this movie need more scary jump scenes more scary music etc , so in the end this kind of movies I always used to call it ( a movie to forget). 5/10
BA_Harrison With its silly-sounding title* and ambiguous storyline, Pyewacket seems to be following in the footsteps of The Babadook (2014), a film that left the viewer unsure as to whether its horrors were real or a figment of the imagination.Pyewacket's protagonist is pretty teen Leah (Nicole Muñoz), who has developed an interest in the occult following the death of her father. When her mother (Laurie Holden) announces that they are moving to a new home, hours away from her friends and school, Leah is understandably upset.Shortly after moving home, Leah has a bitter argument with her mother and, in a rage, conducts a ritual to summon a supernatural creature to kill the poor woman. In the following days, Leah regrets her actions, but is it too late to stop the monster she has unleashed?Delivering no concrete evidence to support the idea that Pyewacket is anything but imaginary, a product of Leah's increasingly fragile mind, the film is more of a psychological drama than a horror, extremely slow-burn and devoid of scares or tension. Ultimately, the whole thing amounts to a drawn-out build-up topped off with a short, sharp, shocking payoff that is nasty, but not really worth the wait.*After doing a bit of research, I found that Pyewacket was actually one of the familiar spirits of a witch detected by Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, in 1644. It's still a silly name...