Sure, while I had actually never heard about the 2017 horror movie "The Curse of Buckout Road" prior to stumbling upon it here in 2025, of course I opted to watch the movie on account of it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. And I am a big fan of all things horror after all.
But talk about a swing and a miss from writers Shahin Chandrasoma, Matthew Currie Holmes and Johnny Pascucci, because the storyline in the movie was one of the dullest and most boring ones I've sat through in a long, long time. The pacing of the narrative was sluggishly slow, and there just wasn't much of anything interesting happening to spruce up the otherwise dull movie. So it was not a great horror experience.
The acting performances in the movie were fair, despite the fact that the script was rubbish. There were some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Danny Glover, Henry Czerny and Colm Feore.
Visually, then the movie was okay. It wasn't exactly a movie that were throwing special effects left and right. But whatever effects were in the movie were fair enough.
If you enjoy horror movies, then "The Curse of Buckout Road" is not a movie that I would recommend. Nor is it a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time.
My rating of director Matthew Currie Holmes's 2017 movie "The Curse of Buckout Road" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.
