Pyewacket

2017

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 36 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 11142 11.1K

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Plot summary

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
July 12, 2018 at 02:29 PM

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Laurie Holden as Mrs. Reyes
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by captainpass 8 / 10

Nicole Muñoz Carries this One Admirably

The last twenty minutes felt a bit rushed and disorganized, compared to the languid, but tightly thought-out, slow-burn pace of the first 3/4 of the movie. But this meditation on impulsivity in the context of peer and parental relationships results in a very fine entry nonetheless. Yes, it is a "horror" movie (particularly towards the end). But it is also about human relationships.

That said, this is not a dialogue-intensive feature. Rather, there is heavy reliance on mood, lighting and subtle gestures to move the plot along (if you don't pay attention, it can be easy to miss important clues). As a result, this movie could have been a bomb. But I was VERY impressed with Nicole Muñoz, who manages to carry the weight of a near-100% screen time admirably. She is able to give us a very realistic depiction of a struggling teenager who swings between hope, anger, boredom and curiosity, as she negotiates a move with her mother away from her former home. Recommended for sure.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 3 / 10

On it goes

PYEWACKET is another cheap and digital horror flick from Canada that goes through the motions without ever being interesting. This one's about the usual obnoxious teenage girl, living in the woods with her mother; she has a falling out with her parent and uses a supernatural ritual to get back at her. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong in a plot that figures predictability to an overwhelming degree. The characters are too unpleasant to care about, and THE WALKING DEAD's Laurie Holden gets little opportunity to do much as the mother figure. The whole thing has a low key, slow burning thing going on, and you just wish for it to end but on it goes.

Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10

Okay horror movie, at times even a better family drama

"Pyewacket" is a relatively new Canadian film from 2017 written and directed by prolific actor Adam MacDonald and here we have his second full feature film. It's not a long movie by any means, barely makes it past the 80-minute mark not counting the pretty long closing credits section at the end. The cast does not include any known actors, at leastg to me I must admit, but that's not a problem at all, never really an issue for the horror genre either and pretty common there. It is the story of a teenage girl who took a turn for the dark side after the death of her father, not in the sense that she turned evil, but that she developed an interest in the occult. And tensions have been rough between her and her mother too in recent weeks, especially when she decides to take the daughter to a new home meaning she, to some extent, has to leave her friends behind. Still there are moments when she seems like a caring mother while in other moments she is a true beast. But she is not possessed or anything. The latter moments also include the one where she makes a truly cruel comment about the girl's father, which eventually results in our "heroine" performing a wicked spell that brings up a witch creature keen on killing the girl's mother. Maybe the extremes of the mother in terms of her behavior are a bit too much to be honest, but I believe Laurie Holden does a really good job here and easily gives the best performance from the cast. Very much a scene stealer. The scenes with the girl's friend, boyfriend and the other guy didn't do too much for me. When we see them all, it's tolerable, but the one with the best friend for example is just so-so, even if MacDonald makes decent use of the known horror film formulas that always work well like stoned teenagers acting as if something horrible happened, but in fact just playing pranks what we can never be sure of. The scene close to the ending with the witch having taken over the mother's body was really good and actually, they should have created a decent ending out of this one, maybe with the daughter giving the witch the knife and the witch killing her too. Or with the spell being performed back in the other direction setting things straight again in the sense of a happy ending could have been fine too. However, the path tehy took eventually with the big fire and the interrogation scene did very little for me unfortunately I must say and left another negative note on the already not too convincing horror element for me here. I don't need constant blood, death and violence, but I need more than what we got here. Like I wrote in the title, the non-supernatural scenes feel almost better than the core of the film, so yes it's not a film I'd recommend particularly to horror movie enthusiasts, let alone call it a must-see, but it is a pretty good watch for everybody who can stomach the more serious moments. The lead actress does what she needed to do too without ever really shining. I'd somehow even say after watching this one that I'd be curious to check out a non-horrror movie by MacDonald in the future. We'll see if it happens. Until then, go and watch Pyewacket. It's worth 90 minutes of your time.

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