When I read the description of the film, I immediately wanted to watch it, "gothic", "creepy" and based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, sounds amazing, right? Wrong! Watching the film was pure torture for me, the way it was shot was bad, the vision is there, I get what the film maker was trying to do but it was very poorly executed. I've seen better cinematography in some no budget B list horror films, but since that is only my personal preference I won't focus on that.
The characters were poorly written and undeveloped, which made me hate every single one of them. Chemistry between the main character and her boyfriend is basically non existent which made it so painful to watch, it felt like the actors were threatened at gun point to film most scenes. I have better chemistry with a bottle opener. The twist at the end was expected so I wasn't surprised about that.
Even tough I didn't like the characters, the script or the cinematography the thing that bothered me the most was their portrayal of gothic clothing, architecture and behavior. The costumes looked like cheap items from the Halloween store, even the color shades were completely off. It just looked so bad and cheap, I can only say that I ordered higher quality items on AliExpress. It felt like whoever was in charge of that googled "Gothic" and read the wikiHow article. Printing out a stock picture of a raven is not gothic and sadly that was the most gothic part out if it all.
I've seen a lot of films in my life, both good and bad, intentional or not, I love watching independent films but this one was just bad, I know many films that are also independent but they deserve an 11/10, this one on the other hand deserves just the 1.
