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One of the worse ghost stories that I have seen in recent years. I was not scared at all.

The filmmakers did a lackluster job with the film. It had a lot to it. A woman comes to Singapore to find out why her sister took her life and finds clues that something supernatural was involved. Not a hard story to follow, but then they added in this extra story about a group of priest looking into someone using computers to recreate the tower of Babel, The stories interconnected real badly and I could not tell you how the filmmakers drop the ball with what could have been a touch down.

It's not scary and it does not give me goosebumps or creeps me out. It falls too flat to be any worth watching.

The movie was decent, OK there are 1-2 bad scenes like in the beginning of the movie, but roughly the movie was nice It has pretty decent horror scenes, and interesting content. But the exorcist scenes were absolutely awful in all ways,with a bizarre acoustic and stupid text.

The movie it's underrated, because of the dumb trailer in my opinion deserves 5/10 points,its not a masterpiece but you won't waste your time watching it :D

I found myself imitating mystery science theater to keep myself full pulling out my hair and gouging out my eyes. The acting is purely Awful! The little girl thinks EVERY disturbance is her mom coming back, the word Mommy is used in this film more than anything else. The plot is terrible, had zero to do with Babel and the tower. Did I mention the offering is nothing? This is nothing more than a B exorcist movie with no plot and terrible acting, even the Asian Priest has miracle ability to hack cyber attacks..... Really? The Tower of Babel is pointless, there is NO offering, I literally would have been pleased had EVERYONE died in this movie. Save yourself the shame and don't watch this terrible film, it isn't even humorous in its terrible nature. If I had control I would delete this video from all things.

I really don't know where to start......This shouldn't be called a movie at all. The acting is awful and the story is inconsistent and contains many discrepancies. The actors don't seem to fear anything, they keep seeing ghosts and they don't scream, run or even panic. The little girl in the movie doesn't even look like her parents (And no, she is not adopted), I mean, no one noticed that! Not even the cameraman!! The movie is not on a very low budget as you will see that the producers spent a couple of hundred dollars on some graphics for lousy ghosts and flying bodies. I wouldn't really recommend anyone to watch it, not even when you have nothing else to do. You will basically waste 2 hours of your life.

Before beginning my review I'd like to state that I went to the extent of creating an account just to comment on how terrible this "movie" is.

Midway through watching, I decided to research the director and script writer (same person not surprisingly) in search of some sort of justification for the poor script writing and directing displayed in the film. The following stumbled me: 1) This is evidently not a low budget film which leads one to question "why is this film so horrible?" And "Who funded this crap and why???!" 2) The actors seem relatively talented, why did they agree to act in this film? 3) What is going on??

As a film student, I find myself genuinely disturbed by the inconsistency and lack of creativity depicted and honestly I could have put together a far better script. If anything this film is humorous... I must give them that, it's gripping. I found myself fixated, awaiting the next corny jump scare. This could genuinely be mistaken for comedy, I mean the demon sounds like Yoda..

F*ck this, I've lost hope in filmmaking.

The Offering is one of the worst horror movies I have seen in 2016. This one isn't as low budget as many of the crappy ones I have seen this year, but it sure takes the prize on being half-finished and sloppy. It is, in all fairness, also sort of an amateurish Indonesian production.

Even though it doesn't exactly look cheap, the entire project is, from a technical standpoint, utterly terrible. The cinematography and camera work is quite decent for the most part, but the acting, direction, plot and "scary" parts are dreadful. The horror part seems like a badly filmed spoof (the lighting is bad and the shots are often badly executed). The reactions of the characters are also incredibly unbelievable (no details given, since it is spoiler material). And the plot, oh my god. It was so amateurish... Like a bunch of children sat down and listed a plot that they thought was clever, while it was really just incredibly lame.I will not spoil the disappointment for you. Let me just say that I hated everything about it.

I give it two out of ten. I feel this is the right grade.

Seriously, this isn't a bad movie at all. Not sure what people were expecting but it's got a few good effects and decent acting. Plot is decent enough for the genre. Basically, it's not low, low budget fair. It's definitely worth a view if only for the occasional jump scares. I found it intriguing in some points of the script. And the direction is fluid.

Everyone pretty much had the same outcome with this movie. It's pretty awful. The story is terrible and doesn't connect, the acting isn't so much bad, but bland, therfore adding more boredom to a "scary" movie that isn't scary to begin with unfortunately. So I'm just gonna gripe about what I came here to gripe about... that dang little girl. OMG talk about prime example of a butterball face. Not to mention she's annoying as she is stupid in this movie. EVERY and I mean EVERY little creak or moan or well any noise for that matter that she hears she thinks it's the ghost of her "mommy" coming back. It's so annoying you just wanna punch her through the TV. Hell, you could play a drinking game with as many times as she says "mommy" I promise no one is making it out sober. So she's already got all these strikes working against her and on top of it all, the movie is terrible lol. Skip it if you value your time, if you're like me with too much time, then give it a go, at least time will get killed.

It is unbelievable how bad this movie is. It is Literally the first time i watch a movie, and couldn't wait for it to end as soon as possible.

Starting with how bad the little girl's acting was. I mean, you would think that she would learn from other young actors on how to act, but not this one, she was awful all the way from start to end.

Then comes the Asian actors, they were so amateur in their acting, and sometimes even not trying!!.

I really miss the old days when horror movies made me come out of the theatre thinking Holy Crap, will I be able to sleep tonight!!!.

Conclusion: Don't waste your time watching this, Seriously.

Right, well I watched this movie and it bore the title "The Faith of Anna Waters", but apparently it is really known as "The Offering"? Or so it would seem.

Well, regardless of the title, then this movie was rubbish. Pure and simple. It was uneventful, it was boring and it just lacked appeal and it was frightfully devoid of anything even remotely scary.

It was as it director and writer Kelvin Tong was following a dummy's guidebook of how-to-make-a-horror-movie. But he took it one step further, because everything that was supposed to be scary in the movie just turned out to be cheesy, campy and downright stupid.

I endured a horribly long hour of watching "The Offering", then I just had my share of stupidity on the screen. And I got up and turned it off, never to return to finish the rest of the movie. Why? Well, because the movie was so mundane, so generic, so pointless that it would be a waste of time and effort to return to watch the rest of it. It was a wonder in itself that I managed to sit through a whole hour of this ordeal. But I was hoping that director Kelvin Tong would swing a magical wand and make it all miraculously more interesting.

That just never happened.

The storyline told in "The Offering" was simplistic and easy to follow. Actually, it was so simplistic that it was sort of an insult to the audience, because we were served everything hand and foot, and it was presented in a manner so you didn't have to use your brain in any way. You just sat there, being spoon-fed the contents of the movie. A vile stew of generic storytelling made unwatchable.

The acting in the movie was fairly adequate, although the actors and actresses were indeed fighting a losing uphill battle against an atrocious storyline, a dreadfully boring script, and it didn't help that they were given shallow and pointless characters to portray on the screen and attempt to make interesting for the audience.

If you enjoy horror movies, you need to take heed and do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "The Offering".

Saw 'The Faith of Anna Waters' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.

Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who hated 'The Faith of Anna Waters'. A film that never took off, further ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Faith of Anna Waters', so gave it a fair chance.

The location is suitably spooky, which is pretty much the only thing the film has against it.

However, so much brings 'The Faith of Anna Waters' down. The acting is both over-histrionic or disinterested and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste.

Where 'The Faith of Anna Waters' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace, apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are both bland and annoying and the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further.

Could not get behind or relate to the overwrought dead sister part of the plot and the whole stuff with the priests was just weird and convoluted badly an otherwise too simple story.

For a film billed as a horror/thriller, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. Any scares are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. 'The Faith of Anna Waters' doesn't engage let alone thrill, and just frustrates constantly in how increasingly dull and ridiculous it is. The ending and most of the feeble attempts at explanation were incredibly vague and like they were made up on the spot.

Summing up, next to nothing to recommend here. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Okay this is another one of those with a changed name on Amazon. -1 Star for the name CHANGE.

The Offering apparently = The Faith Of Anna Waters.

Anyways, this one is a skipper. It's senseless and weak script. 2/10.

This movie convinced me to open up an IMDb and leave a review. I am a huge horror movie buff. I am pretty open minded and can be easily entertained, even if it's not the best movie, but goodness this movie is absolutely HORRIBLE! It is all over the place! So many things did not make sense. I desperately wanted it to end. I wanted to gouge my eyes out! If I could give it a zero I totally would!!!

I love horror/supernatural and this one made me jump a few times. It's very atmospheric and the acting is very good.

For the most part I love ghost movies and can never find a good one, it's like trying to find the veal parmigiana hot pocket they just don't make them. My issues come with how they tie the ending up and this one did not let me down. I dig the whole ghost bit and was genuinely scared here and there as I love the slow walk through the dark room with a busted flashlight bit. But unlike a White Castle cheese burger this movie was not exactly the same. The busted flashlight always worked, the cat was not the jump scare preparing me for a real scare the real scare was the scare. Granted I am more like a 6 year old paying attention Barney's goofy voice then the lesson he was promoting so the story line worked for me. It was not oh man that's genius but it was not hey let's run to the dark room and hide. A lot of the cliches were twisted around to make the story a bit more realistic where the dad sees something and says "too bad we can't stay". There were cringe worthy moments but seriously look at your popcorn and wonder we're all the snowcaps are hidden instead of harping on those and this movie was worth the watch. Unless you have a series that is taking all your time. I would so watch this on a recommendation.

I enjoyed The Maid (2020) and thought Kelvin Tong directed it. Boy was I wrong. He apparently directed The Maid (2005). Because I'm a Western person, I made the stupid mistake of thinking this film - The Offering - set in Singapore was related to the 2020 Thai film when it was directed by the same person as the 2005 Chinese film. Oops.

ANYWAY, I suffered for my ignorance. The Faith of Anna Waters i.e. The Offering (2016) is an absolutely trite and mediocre Americanized Hollywood film set in Singapore. 90 percent of the characters are white people and everyone speaks American English. The writing is bad, the dialogue is wooden, and the actors portraying the child and the ex-husband characters can't even act.

The only thing that compelled me to continue watching is that I genuinely wanted to know what the heck was going on with the mystery behind the film's events. There are a few genuinely scary, disturbing or gross parts but overall the best thing about the film is the house where most of it takes place. Yeah.