The House in Sherwood

This is a low production found footage film of a woman, psychic, investigating the haunting of a home. She is broadcasting live to rebuild her reputation. as a psychic and medium. At the same time and often in split screen, a woman is playing mean spirited pranks on the psychic as she feels robbed by the psychic for a bad suggestion. The focus on screen is often a small view, and this makes it seem very amateur. The acting of the psychic is okay but nothing special. The acting by the other woman is borderline camp and often off putting to her scenes. There is very little scares or thrills to this film. The presentation of the ghost has a eeriness to it, but little is done to extend or enhance this. Interesting concept that is poorly managed and presented.

The good points: The acting, the story, some really good scary scenes. The bad points: Okay some the scary scenes didn't work, most did. Then there's the running time, I Felt if it was on for longer it may have been scarier. Now for the supposed budget and done in covid Times this film had a lot going for it and I have just watched the new wonder woman film which cost hundreds of millions to make and it was awful. This movie made for a normal person's week's pay is a far better film in all areas. Kudos to the film director and all involved I.e. the actors and actresses ( the main people in the film) did an amazing job all round. Do yourself a favour, watch this and remember it cost a person's week's pay to make and put this against a Hollywood film that cost hundreds of millions to make. I know o I would give an award to for their film making. Does it have endpoints, of course it does but what it has accomplished is for the viewer to see. Well done.

The acting of the two lead actors was so hammy and over the top, that this so-called horror movie came across as a spoof comedy.

Found footage movies are where the characters show us what they are seeing. But for the major part of this film, we had to endure close ups of the two characters' faces, including their ugly teeth and skin pores.

The actress who plays the antagonist is particularly irritating.

Right away this film seems like one likely to antagonize some viewers, as it seems to be entirely in second person view, watching the two actors as they film themselves like a Periscope video, complete with random floating emojis and comments popping up from fake twitter accounts and the like.

Very little is explained as to what is happening and why, but thankfully it starts to get clearer as it goes along. Basically, Angela (the redhead) is an alleged psychic, and Karen (the non-redhead) feels she was screwed over by some bad financial advice given by Angela. Now she is cyberstalking Angela, who is filming herself in a haunted flat, and decides to take her revenge by sabotaging Angela, sending her threatening letters and phone calls, and trying to expose her as a fraud.

This is basically the entirety of the movie, with the two actors basically chomping scenery with all the obnoxious energy of exactly what they basically are; youtubers. Along the way, we see some rather unusual stuff that might suggest Karen is possibly butting in on something else entirely.

Overall this is definitely the type of film which if a friend told me they couldn't watch because it was too annoying, I would be like "okay" and accept that.

If you haven't seen any of British Director Richard Mansfield's films, they are very low budget, found footage, and glacially slow. Usually with very simple plots. This one is certainly low budget and almost painfully slow but actually the plot is an improvement over his other work, especially over "A Haunting In Sherwood", which this is a sequel to. This is far from a good film, I can't even say it is a particularly entertaining film, but it isn't the worst way to spend 70 minutes. Once it finally gets going there are a few actually inspired chills, bit not enough to make up for the dullness of the first two acts. Keep trying Richard, you're getting closer to making a decent film.