York Witches' Society

This film was a dissappointment. The major problem was honestly the script, everything felt like a first draft.

There is perhaps some potential to be wrung out of this concept, a college 'secret society' that is in actuality a coven. But the conversations throughout the entire first half are stitled and strange. The people don't quite talk like people, there's a scene where one character berates a professor that doesn't connect, and the driving incident that puts our protagonist into the coven deeply contrived. The writing here feels like the worst of 80s sitcoms, only without the jokes.

Yet somehow the second half is worse. The tone shifts, and suddenly the movie wants to be a ghostly slasher film. But it's just so...dull. There are admittedly a few creative kills, but the pacing is so slow and the characters have been so poorly fleshed out that these kills don't carry any emotional weight. As other reviewers have said, it feels like you spend 40 minutes watching people run around in the mist. It felt endless, and yet somehow this movie is under 90 minutes long. And the coven is not so much a coven here as it is a collection of cowering college students. Who wants to see a witch movie where the "witches" don't really do magic?

This movie, more than anything, was boring. It's a real achievement to make magic and witch hunts and slasher kills boring. This script needed serious revisions.