The Book of the Witch

August (Danny Parker Lopes) and Victoria (Krishna Smitha) are two unmotivated underpaid and unappreciated security guards working the night shift in a vast empty office building. Through a series of loose vignettes, we learn a few things about Victoria. She lives alone has compulsive tendencies an unhealthy obsession with the supernatural and is traumatized by a past life event. When a combination of these things Victoria finds herself in the path of a entity in the form of witch all hell breaks loose.

The film put together in six days on a tiny budget and a crew of two people Book Of The Witch is an ambitious film which does better then your standard Hollywood film with ten times the resources at their disposal.

The director has obviously put a lot of time and energy into the post production process as The film cleverly uses a mixture of music foley colour graded effects and atmosphere to give each scene a sense of tension and dread. It never lets up.

The minimal blood and gore makes the witch even more frightening the few times you do actually catch a glimpse at her. Book Of The Witch is a fascinating story of fear of death guilt and redemption.