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Another film that was distributed by Wild Eye Releasing, the same company that's unleashed films like The Amazing Bulk and Shark Exorcist, yet this might be the worst film out of their entire catalog. This movie is such a disaster that the opening credits were made in iMovie. I'm not kidding, they use the exact same text effects that I've seen in the 2007 version of iMovie. There's also a lot of stock footage used in the movie as well, a lot of which I've seen on YouTube channels.

The problems with the editing doesn't stop there either. There is no color correction throughout the duration of the film, unless it was in the stock footage that they took for their feature film. Many of the scenes are either way too bright or way too dark, and it will either be distracting or laughable. There's also some random images that flash on the screen throughout the movie because... it's scary? Most of them are just a cheap attempt at a jumpscare, even when there's nothing suspenseful actually happening.

There's a scene where one of the priests (I can't remember any of the characters names and I don't care) is walking through a field and a picture of a skull flashes on the screen out of nowhere. That's how desperate this movie is to try and scare the audience. And when a movie is about possessed wooden planks, I can see why these were added. The intentionally ridiculous film Rubber makes more sense than this film.

The camerawork is some of the worst I have ever seen. There's a scene where the same priest is driving in his car and a bootleg monster from The Village appears, and there must have been no clear direction on set because the cameraman just shakes the camera all over the interior of the vehicle for no reason! It's not even handheld like a found footage film, it doesn't make any sense.

The sound design is awful, especially when Amy is swimming in the pool, and it sounds like they recorded the water splashing sound from 20 feet away. The music ranges from ripping off The Exorcist to tunes that make me wanna go deaf. Most of the actors in this movie read off the lines on the script with zero emotion. There's even a scene where Amy and her boyfriend are talking on the phone and it's supposed to be an emotional moment, but the boyfriend's actor seems unable to emote whatsoever and it becomes hilarious in all the wrong ways. The dialogue fares no better either.

The best part of this film is the cover, which is a lie as to the quality of the movie it's marketing. That and the few scenes that were so bad they made me laugh out loud, unfortunately those scenes aren't frequent enough for me to say it's worth seeing. The only scene I'd watch is the one where the red "demon" appears in a computer that they probably used to edit the movie, and the priest shoves the cross up against the screen and causes the entire computer to explode in a stock graphic, as that was easily the funniest part of the film. Other than that though, this is one of the few films that doesn't get anything right about film making, if you can even call it that. Consider this a 0/10, purely because I can't find a reason to give it a 1.