Sorry, this movie sucks

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A Goth girl is frustrated by her father's death and her mother's inability to collect herself after the passing of her loyal and loving husband. In a fit of fury, the girl takes seriously the Black Magic books all of her friends study and calls a demon forth called Pyewacket (one of the demons spoken about in Salem during the Witch Trials) to kill her mother. But the demon is smarter than the girl and pretends to have killed the mother and then masquerades as the dead woman. The teenager becomes confused, believing the body of her mother is real, when we know it was only Pyewacket pretending to be the dead woman. The Goth then encounters the sheer power of the demon while her mother is still away in the small town near where they live. She runs to the attic for safety, and the demon follows her in the shape of her mother. But is this really the demon? The girl thinks it is, and so takes a bucket of gasoline to her mother's bedroom--still believing her mother is dead--and douses the "demon" then sets it on fire. It turns out to be the girl's actual mother, and so insanity ensues as we see that Pyewacket has indeed done what it was summoned to do--kill the mother-- and then, as demons always do, has turned its ferocity on its summoner.

SIMPLE AS ,C LIST CRAP SLOW BURNER TO ZERO C LIST CRAP. NOTHING HAPPENS THE ENTIRE MOVIE ! VERY BAD EDITING,THE SURPLUS YOUNG CHARACTERS HAVE NO BASIS AT ALL WITH THE WEAK PLOT AND ONCE AGAIN BAD,BAD,BAD EDITING. HOPE THIS HELPS,ps 1hr 05mins before anything happens slightly .

A good example of a well made psychological thriller. This movie proves that you don't need blood and gore, or cheesy special effects to make a good thriller. Yes it is slow at times but that just makes it more down to earth. Unlike many other horror or thriller movies that go way over the top this one stays grounded.

Decent, but I was a little disappointed in how the Canadian independent horror "Pyewacket" went about setting up its narrative and final denouncement. All mood, predictable tradegy filler, secluded house in the woods, occult doodling, an unstable mother and lonely daughter relationship leads to a rush of blood to the head ending in harrowing regret. The summoning of an evil entity to fulfil a wish, bad vibes and death slowly toying, and manipulating its victims to serve a purpose.Really, not much happens for three quarters of the film with a routine set-up going through the motions, and then its creeping structure becomes perilously high stakes. It's light on the thrills and minimal effects, favouring a less is more approach of camera trickery, atmospheric toiling and pounding thuds. So if you're tired of jump scares, your in luck because you going to get something quite reserved for the majority of the time. The supernatural force early on, is deliberately kept off-screen. After a creepy first appearance as a black shapeless apparition seeping from the walls unbeknown to the sleeping daughter, it disappears, yet the presence is always felt preying upon each and every step of those on the estate. Finally the entity comes to the forefront and makes itself known in the third act, but even then its quite limited on how far it goes, and it's over in a matter of minutes. Finishing on a disturbing and nasty executed climax with decisive sting in its tail twist, but the effectiveness of the twist doesn't work, because you see it coming. The story blatantly lets you in on it, just before the delirium kicks in. Now was meant to be a twist, because it felt like one, yet it doesnt feel like it paid off?So was this simple slow-burn horror; of quick cutaways, false lingering build-ups and ominously "loud" sound FX (and boy is it overused) all constructed around its (shocking?) final scenes. If so, it misses the point since as a viewer we are already steps ahead. Everything comes to an abrupt ending, where certain details brought up about the consequences (discussed by an occult expert) surrounding the black ritual, are now skimped over, or forgotten about in its closing scenes. In a way, it feels like a lot of hot air. Technically well-made; great location shooting and solid acting by Nicole Munoz and Laurie Holden sharing honest portrayals, but still it's a lot of hot air.