The Faith of Anna Waters

Seriously, this isn't a bad movie at all. Not sure what people were expecting but it's got a few good effects and decent acting. Plot is decent enough for the genre. Basically, it's not low, low budget fair. It's definitely worth a view if only for the occasional jump scares. I found it intriguing in some points of the script. And the direction is fluid.

How did they find a 35 year short man to play a 10 year old girl? 3 of the main actors in this movie must be closely related to the person who put up the money to have this film made. How else could they have gotten the part? Was driftwood not available on the beach the day of casting? Spoiler: When they say "doesn't the pain remind you of life"? Why did they have to wrestle her/it to the ground and yank on the feeding tube? Why not just grab a 2x4 piece of lumber and hit her in the face? A. Pain would have reminded her and B. Would have been why more interesting. ~A

Right, well I watched this movie and it bore the title "The Faith of Anna Waters", but apparently it is really known as "The Offering"? Or so it would seem. Well, regardless of the title, then this movie was rubbish. Pure and simple. It was uneventful, it was boring and it just lacked appeal and it was frightfully devoid of anything even remotely scary. It was as it director and writer Kelvin Tong was following a dummy's guidebook of how-to-make-a-horror-movie. But he took it one step further, because everything that was supposed to be scary in the movie just turned out to be cheesy, campy and downright stupid. I endured a horribly long hour of watching "The Offering", then I just had my share of stupidity on the screen. And I got up and turned it off, never to return to finish the rest of the movie. Why? Well, because the movie was so mundane, so generic, so pointless that it would be a waste of time and effort to return to watch the rest of it. It was a wonder in itself that I managed to sit through a whole hour of this ordeal. But I was hoping that director Kelvin Tong would swing a magical wand and make it all miraculously more interesting. That just never happened. The storyline told in "The Offering" was simplistic and easy to follow. Actually, it was so simplistic that it was sort of an insult to the audience, because we were served everything hand and foot, and it was presented in a manner so you didn't have to use your brain in any way. You just sat there, being spoon-fed the contents of the movie. A vile stew of generic storytelling made unwatchable. The acting in the movie was fairly adequate, although the actors and actresses were indeed fighting a losing uphill battle against an atrocious storyline, a dreadfully boring script, and it didn't help that they were given shallow and pointless characters to portray on the screen and attempt to make interesting for the audience. If you enjoy horror movies, you need to take heed and do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "The Offering".

Jamie (Elizabeth Rice) travels to Singapore to "investigate" her sister's death (Rayann Condy). Not too much to investigate, she left her PC camera on as she placed a plastic bag over her head. Case close. Blame the ex-husband (Matthew Settle) kidnap the niece Katie (Adina Herz) go back to Chicago and then the ex can hire Liam Neeson to go find his daughter. Set a few guys on fire and you got yourself a film. Nope. She hangs around and discovers that other people are killing themselves, their house is haunted, the ex-is really a nice guy and all the main characters all have some disease/condition. The computer binary language is universal and this creates a new tower of Babel, but we still need the old one and an exorcism and an anagram. And how did Jamie get home so fast when Katie was in trouble. That was like across town in 2 seconds as if Singapore has no traffic. This film is being renamed "The Faith of Anna Waters" perhaps to avoid confusion with other films of that title. The acting was not convincing. Adina Herz was not a good fit for the role. Now the good news. There was no swearing sex or nudity in the film. Now if I had a young girl I would let her/her friends watch this film while I quietly would place a picture of the Tower of Babel in her closet. Sorry, that's how our family rolls.

The movie was decent, OK there are 1-2 bad scenes like in the beginning of the movie, but roughly the movie was nice It has pretty decent horror scenes, and interesting content. But the exorcist scenes were absolutely awful in all ways,with a bizarre acoustic and stupid text. The movie it's underrated, because of the dumb trailer in my opinion deserves 5/10 points,its not a masterpiece but you won't waste your time watching it :D

Is it just me or does it seem like every one in this film is so underwhelmed by death? The main character finds a man stabbing is own eyes out with his bare hands and seconds after she is 100% calm and gets completely distracted by a text message. This happened again when the father and daughter dug up the skulls. He had just found a demon in the basement and was frantic to leave and get his daughter to safety but seconds after walking into the woods is calm and completely forgets what he was doing when he finds her kneeling in the middle of the forest. No, we didn't need to see the mom and sons skills, we got that they died, it suerved no purpose to show that scene. THERE IS A DEMON IN THE BASEMENT DUDE. FRICKEN RUN. Basically anytime anyone sees something paranormal it's met with at most a gasp and then a shrug. I mean come on! Could we get a little more reaction from these people? I want to genuinely be scared when I watch a movie and so the characters need to be scared. I was also extremely confused why they tied in the scuba suit. It seemed to play no role in any of the story lines and was so utterly pointless and made an already pretty terrible movie worse.

This got to be one the worst Horror Movies i have ever seen. Terrbile acting, Terrible Directing and a REAL TERRIBLE Plot!What's wrong with that grown ass teenager girl that acts as if she was five years old! Mommy Mommy MOMMY!!And the main protagonist have no feelings whatsoever!Ghosts were more scared of them i swear!!And Oh Please, A priest who is into hacking and such!and where the hell is the offering as the name of the dumb movie implies?! they just offered my precious time to the Devi X(! Please PLEASE don't watch this unless you Feel like wasting 90M out of your life ! Trust me on this If you got 90M to Spare just go out there and watch an Ant colony doing their business, or simply stare at the blank white wall and you will be more satisfied than watching this Dumb Stupid Movie.

Okay this is another one of those with a changed name on Amazon. -1 Star for the name CHANGE. The Offering apparently = The Faith Of Anna Waters. Anyways, this one is a skipper. It's senseless and weak script. 2/10.

Reporter Jamie Waters (a solid and appealing portrayal by Elizabeth Rice) goes to Singapore to uncover the truth about the mysterious circumstances pertaining to the suicide death of her sister. During said investigation Jamie runs afoul of a lethal and powerful demonic entity that's using modern technology to complete an ancient mission. Writer/director Kelvin Wong relates the engrossing story at a constant pace, makes nice use of the exotic locations, takes time to develop the characters, ably crafts a creepy and unsettling atmosphere, and smartly explores the strong central themes of love, faith, and sacrifice. The sound acting by the capable cast keeps this movie humming: Matthew Settle as flawed, but decent deadbeat dad and father Sam Harris, Adina Herz as sweet little girl Katie, Adrian Pang as the eager Father Matthew Goh, Jaymee Ong as perky babysitter Marjorie Tan, and Colin Borgonon as the sage Father De Silva. A neat little fright film.

Before beginning my review I'd like to state that I went to the extent of creating an account just to comment on how terrible this "movie" is. Midway through watching, I decided to research the director and script writer (same person not surprisingly) in search of some sort of justification for the poor script writing and directing displayed in the film. The following stumbled me: 1) This is evidently not a low budget film which leads one to question "why is this film so horrible?" And "Who funded this crap and why???!" 2) The actors seem relatively talented, why did they agree to act in this film? 3) What is going on?? As a film student, I find myself genuinely disturbed by the inconsistency and lack of creativity depicted and honestly I could have put together a far better script. If anything this film is humorous... I must give them that, it's gripping. I found myself fixated, awaiting the next corny jump scare. This could genuinely be mistaken for comedy, I mean the demon sounds like Yoda.. F*ck this, I've lost hope in filmmaking.