VooDoo

I kept seeing this film showing up in "Best Horror Movies of the Year" type lists and in comments here on IMDb. I'm not sure what film they were watching, but this one does not live up to their praise.

Samantha Stewart does not come off as a terrible actress except when she is trying to (occasionally) put on a Louisiana accent. It sounds different every time and was confusing why the filmmaker even bothered, except to maintain a connection to voodoo.

This is another "found footage" style film, which is becoming synonymous with "we couldn't afford to hire an actual camera man". Where it makes sense, this style can add a first person creep factor, but does anyone actually believe that someone running for their life from supernatural entities would take the time to keep picking up the camera and putting it down in advantageous locations to capture the action?

The special effects and bit players here appear to have been borrowed from a Halloween haunted house. If you have ever been to one, you have seen enough of these rubber dismembered body parts to spot them immediately. Once the heavy effects and action kick in, any creepiness that was built up in the first half of the film is lost and I just found myself wondering how long I would have to endure the goings on.

Seriously I was not expecting a movie to go down such a depraved path but it did and there's some genuine creepy parts aside from the grotesque descent into what seems like hell. Like the original Evil Dead, the acting is bad and though the special effects lack, that is what makes it work. I get the horror junkies not liking this cuz it lacks more depth or whatever they crave but it's horror and it did what it was meant to do. I had a girl peaking at the movie while I watched it and she went into the other room cuz it freaked her out. Entities with red eyes are something no one wants to see in their room. It's a slow starter and they could've cut out some scenes but I did appreciate the back story as to why this happens to the main character. Also reminded me of the recent Turkish horror movie, Baskin. VooDoo was a sliver better imo.

Out of the huge list of everything horrible about this movie, what tops the cake is Dani crying and screaming so damn much it was intolerable. This film was super low budget and it shows immensely through the acting, makeup, plot etc. I advise people to not waste their time watching it if you're a true horror movie fan.

The movie begins slowly, with basically little happening in the first 45 minutes except some partying and friendly bantering. Around the 45-minute mark, however, the movie begins the horror, and here, the movie suffers from various flaws .... firstly, the costumes / designs are weak; secondly, the entire second half essentially becomes a long torture session, which starts to drag on (the lead actress just keeps screaming and screaming to the point of annoyance); thirdly, the movie just seems to pile on whatever random gore / disturbing scenes they can think of

I would avoid this movie.

If you enjoy watching a movie with no dialogue, no flow or even connections through out this is the movie for you. I am generally a fan of bad movies but this went beyond bad to utter disappointment. The majority of the dialogue in the last 30 minutes is continuous screaming and crying. There are several plot holes and a lot of the script either doesn't make sense or is meaningless. Extremely random scenes and character castings that don't collate with the original scenes at the start of the movie. To finish it of a diabolical ending. Real shame