Evie

Ok. So the first 8 minutes was interesting and caught my attention. Every minute after that was so boring it was putting me to sleep. I can't believe the director and film editors saw the final cut of this movie and thought "that's great, people will love it". Absolutely nothing happens for the rest of the movie. You get to watch this girl pour booze in her face and that's the extent of the movie. It's no spoiler to say it's a supernatural ghost movie but they don't explain anything. I think they implied what it was at the beginning but this movie is such a cluster flop you have no idea. Needless to say I do not recommend this movie. You'll find more excitement doing laundry or waiting for your fingernails grow.

2 stars because the cast isn't bad, this wasn't a line up of actors taking anything just to get seen, they'd been in other works and are rather accomplished. But simply not a film about a girl who finds a cursed necklace on the shore and sets free a water demon that wants to claim her and those she loves, as it is advertised to be. If this film is trying to be clever and say something else, about life, or the struggles we face, I don't know to be honest, it fails there too.

So, a horror that isn't a horror, or what it says on the tin. Yes, it's better than any film I've ever written, but that shouldn't be the benchmark. Avoid.

When I sat down to watch the 2023 movie "Evie" here in 2024, I had never actually heard about the movie. But I must say that I was instantly drawn to the movie's cover. And given the movie's cover and it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I had to watch it.

Writers Dominic Brunt and Jamie Lundy put together a rather interesting script and storyline. I was intrigued by the narrative and genuinely entertained, because it was a nicely constructed narrative. Sure, the pacing in "Evil" is a bit tedious, and thus it might not find a broad appeal with the wider audience. But I do think, if you enjoy horror mysteries, then you should certainly give "Evie" a chance.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but the actors and actresses put on good performances. I enjoy watching unfamiliar talents on the screen when I watch a movie, so the cast of "Evie" was a treat for me. Honey Lundy did a nice job in portraying the young Evie, while Holli Dempsey did an equal good job portraying adult Evie.

Something that really worked well in "Evie" was the music. It was dark ambient atmospheric and really layered the movie in an otherworldly sheen. It sounded like music made by CryoChamber, but I am not sure if it was that band or not. Regardless, the music in "Evie" is out of this world and really compliments the movie quite nicely.

My rating of directors Dominic Brunt and Jamie Lundy's 2023 movie "Evie" lands on a six out of ten stars.

I am a sucker for anything folk horror, so the fact that I almost turned this off about 20 minutes in was surprising.

The action moved at an uncomfortably quick pace that felt awkward and clunky. Come to find out it was just a prelude and it ended up settling into something more interesting. This movie is heavy on conversation and light on the action. They did a good job keeping up the suspense, slowly building up to the climax but nothing really exciting happens until the last 4th of the movie. The ending was also pretty unfulfilling and left you wondering what REALLY happened as not much was really explained. The movie as a whole was shot nicely, edited interestingly and had high picture quality. The acting was also generally successful across the board.

This story definitely had some potential it just felt a bit undercooked. It was a decent experience in total, but definitely on the lower end so I would only loosely recommend this to someone who is partial to folk horror.

This movie is just terrible. Unclimactic. Zero story line. A girl finds a necklace and becomes evil. No character or story development. It is just completely lousy. Really i struggle to find one good thing about this movie. The acting is terrible, who casted this awful woman as the lead i just don't even know. I want my time back wasted on this piece of junk. I'm not sure who gave this movie a 9 but I'm pretty sure they must be personally invested in this POS in some way. It doesn't even deserve credit for being entertaining because it was just boring and really poorly written and directed. It's not scary at all - its simple ridiculous.