I just watched this film and liked it more than most I've seen recently. Despite the minimalist approach, I thought the "world building" was at a genius level. The idea that you need to remain indoors after dark for a short span each October lends to a truly creepy, spooky, "siege like vibe." The acting was excellent and hair raising throughout. The desiccated corpse of the witch (with broom included) didn't feel silly at all. If anything, it was the "chef's kiss." Like any good "seminal" work, this film leaves me wanting more and maybe hoping for a sequel that would flesh out this interesting world a little more. I've seen movies that depict zombie apocalypses, vampire apocalypses, and even werewolf apocalypses. Since it's that spooky time of the year, why not, finally, a depiction of a "broom riding witch apocalypse?"
The last 15 minutes made no sense to me at all! Like what's up with DJ taking over the movie at the end and did literally NOTHING. Totally waste of our time. This idea, I think, I had the potential to be an awesome movie, but I think unfortunately it fell flat.
I didn’t get it either. It’s like they were building up to some grand revelation. Because the DJ told Mike that we don’t burn witches anymore, they require human sacrifice. But then he ends the call with, call me after you burn the witch. And I’m thinking burning the witch was going to set off another supernatural event. But I think the revelation was that Adam knocked the beer over and he had to go out and burn the body and in doing so became another witch. As we’re told earlier in the film that someone or something had created a ritual circle used to create witches around where it was buried. And I would go as far and say knocking the beer over didn’t start the curse. It started when that one guy first shot the witch, which is why his wife was taken. He had spread it to her.
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I just watched this film and liked it more than most I've seen recently. Despite the minimalist approach, I thought the "world building" was at a genius level. The idea that you need to remain indoors after dark for a short span each October lends to a truly creepy, spooky, "siege like vibe." The acting was excellent and hair raising throughout. The desiccated corpse of the witch (with broom included) didn't feel silly at all. If anything, it was the "chef's kiss." Like any good "seminal" work, this film leaves me wanting more and maybe hoping for a sequel that would flesh out this interesting world a little more. I've seen movies that depict zombie apocalypses, vampire apocalypses, and even werewolf apocalypses. Since it's that spooky time of the year, why not, finally, a depiction of a "broom riding witch apocalypse?"
The last 15 minutes made no sense to me at all! Like what's up with DJ taking over the movie at the end and did literally NOTHING. Totally waste of our time. This idea, I think, I had the potential to be an awesome movie, but I think unfortunately it fell flat.
Agree. It fell like filler to pad the film length out.
I didn’t get it either. It’s like they were building up to some grand revelation.
Because the DJ told Mike that we don’t burn witches anymore, they require human sacrifice. But then he ends the call with, call me after you burn the witch. And I’m thinking burning the witch was going to set off another supernatural event.
But I think the revelation was that Adam knocked the beer over and he had to go out and burn the body and in doing so became another witch.
As we’re told earlier in the film that someone or something had created a ritual circle used to create witches around where it was buried.
And I would go as far and say knocking the beer over didn’t start the curse. It started when that one guy first shot the witch, which is why his wife was taken. He had spread it to her.