Reel Nightmare

I am a horror movie lover. This was just awful, for real. Most horror movies, for me, are either lame or not, there is no middle. This movie isn't good enough to be put on either end. I realise they say its not bad acting its a bad script but not with this one. I have no acting experience at all but I could have done a better job then the women in this one. You do have a college education to fall back on, right?

REEL NIGHTMARE: BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT is another dead-headed indie horror flick centred around the subject of witchcraft. For whatever reason, this is a film chock-full of Lovecraft references in terms of character and place names, but otherwise it has no connection to the Cthulhu Mythos (worse luck). It's a dreadfully bad film which looks much older than it really is and is routinely cheesy, dull, and badly acted. Just the usual, then.

The screenplay will not win any awards but it's definitely an entertaining movie with great production value (for a small budget film). The color work in some scenes is really nice and the effects were cheesy but also above average. This movie could do well as a SciFi network Sunday movie. The witches were scary but they managed to make them alluring. i wanted to be a witch myself. The story has a very feminist tone that some guys will not like but if you watch it with an open mind, you can understand why it's important to give everyone a fair shot and how not to judge a book by it's cover. Speaking of book, it was only introduced midway but the sequence with the books attacking the blonde chick was a nice effect.

What you get: nice old mansion, crap story, horrible acting, special effects dating back to the 80s The idea for this movie is not too bad. The synopsis sounded interesting enough to me. It raises expectations the movie can't deliver. Who casted these guys as actors? This is sometimes so bad that it gets funny. I have seen a lot better in music videos or even TV commercials for breakfast cereals. Who wrote the dialogues? Repetitive and boring. They talk so much about things nobody would ever find interesting. What actually happens for 40 min is close to nothing. How is that even possible? They could have elaborated on the old mansion, on the story or on the characters. Thos is a whole new dimension of boring. There was one scene with really outstanding visual effects. You get books flying around. That was so bad. Even adjusting them on a rope and moving the rope with the books would have been more impressive. I haven't seen something like that in ages. So much potential wasted here. Do yourself a favour, go to the dentist, clean the filter of your vacuum cleaner or check if your vaccinations are up to date. Can think of so many other things I wouldn't like to do rather than having to watch that film again. I give 1 for story idea and 1 for everybody involved to finish a project like that.

I liked that this movie Reel Nightmare flipped the bird to all sexist, xenophobic and racists out there. That's what good indie filmmaking is supposed to be about: defying the status quo and the world needs that today. The quirky humor in this movie is not gonna click with everyone but thats a good thing these days. The witches effects were well done but the movie was getting good when it ended. Wish there was more in it to get to know the parallel between witches and the Hilarys of the world. Not a bad movie, but could have been better if more time that been invested to develop the witches backstory which is the most interesting aspect of the film.

Trailer—Reel Nightmare

Reel Nightmare