A Viúva das Sombras

Firstly: I hate Blair Witch copies, and pretty much anything depending on shaking handheld cameras.

The first 15 minutes or so was therefore quite challenging.

The Movie is not the gore/slasher/evil type of horror, it is simply creepy. The buildup, the characters, the atmosphere: great!

I do believe this movie is under-rated, 3.9? I give it an easy 7.

In fact, it is probably better but I started of expecting crap and the first section lived up to the expectation.

On the second viewing, the annoyance was gone, and the creep factor was pure entertainment. My spawn got all wrapped up and ranted in monologues about how things are not supposed to be like that! Fun, fun, Fun!

I came into this movie with low expectations and was happily surprised. One review said it was like Blair With Project, which I have owned both movies so I would know. This was better then Blair Witch. I would not say it was scary, the word creepy kept jumping into my head when something bad would happen. It was a perfect amount of creepy to make it a good, just not a great movie. I love to be scared and although I didn't jump, I was definitely creeped out. This movie was a bit slow for my pace but enjoyable all the same if you like scary movies that creep you out. Any movie that can make a creepy haystack disappear has got my vote. Also one person mentioned Trump in the background, obviously only watched the first and then threw in a towel. Let's get reviews from people that watch the movie the whole way through please!

Overall (1h 26m), this movie decent but the main plot is not expressed or what could say is, I'm not satisfied, it requires some kind of background story elements, have some patience it takes some time like 10mins at first and later on you will get sticked till the end, one more thing the whole locations match-up best with music it's really nice but the english version not been synced to the original (Russian) and if you are a kind of person want some horror it's the one..

Well, I was able to finish it. That's as much praise as I'll give this derivative mess.

This is a good movie that is deeply wounded by terrible dubbing. It would've been much better off subtitled. The dubbing alters the mood and turns what, no doubt, is a creepy movie oozing atmosphere into a much lighter adventure. For example a minor role of a young boy sounds like a cartoon mouse and there are instances of laughing or other non-word utterances like oohs and ahs that sound on!y cartoony. But it's not just these instances but the entire dialogue that is ruined. It comes off sounding more like an episode of Scooby Doo and less like the tense and atmospheric folk horror that is is.

A subtitled version of this movie would gain at least a star and possibly two but as it stands now its a real stretch to give it the six I did. I do think it's potentially a great little movie and I tried hard to ignore the laughable dubbing when rating it.