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As is typical with this type of documentary, there's really no pay off at the end. The reason for that is quite simple: this stuff simply does not exist. Imagine if it did. There'd be as many documentaries about demons and curses as there are about Hitler or 9/11. And by documentaries I mean serious documentaries, the stuff that HBO knock out now and again, not the rubbish you see on Discovery Plus or Really in the noughties. I'm looking at you, Ghost Adventures and Most Haunted.

Still, I thought I'd give this one a shot in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, something out-of-the-ordinary and strange happens. Perhaps curses are real after all! Spoiler alert: nothing much happens, and curses aren't that real. I mean, stuff does happen, like sacrificing birds at an altar and brandishing a handwritten note to Satan whilst you beg for some medical misfortune in your life, but nothing happens that convinces me that any of this stuff is any more genuine than caught-on-camera poltergeist activity or having your prayers answered.

I am in no doubt that the people featured in this documentary sincerely believe that what they are participating in is real. You'd really have to have that mindset to get on all fours and crawl around a cauldron like an idiot whilst shouting nonsense in the hopes of ridding someone of a recently acquired curse. But just because you think it's real and act like it's real doesn't actually make it real, a lesson that poor Liam learnt late-on when he flung himself off his bicycle and blamed his subsequently grazed knee on Lucifer. Got to wrap the documentary up somehow, eh?

The cinematography and editing is actually very well done, which is why I have given it two stars. It's a shame about the subject matter, and the subject himself, who seems like a nice and decent bloke but has about as much screen presence and charisma as a wall of wet paint.