knightox Review of House of the Witch

House of the Witch (2017 TV Movie)

Another Lame Sy-fy Channel Horror Movie Fails... Again

[2/10 · 1 November 2019]

I saw the title of this film and kind of got my hopes up especially since I was watching it on Halloween 🎃. When I saw it was a Sy-fy Channel production I probably should have known better. No offense towards them but they aren't really known for their Oscar winning horror movies 🎥. The plot starts off simple enough with a kid named Charlie being dared to remove the address numbers off an old, supposedly haunted house by a girl. When he tries to do so he ends up being "sucked up" inside the doorway 🚪 and lost forever (Never mind the girl knew where he was, what he was doing and his bike was still there a year later!). Like I said a year later on Halloween a group of teenagers decides to spend the night in the old house because it's supposed to be haunted by a witch. Well slowly chaos ensues and the idiotic teenagers get picked off one by one by a very poor CGI ghost 👻 of the witch in very ridiculous manners. You've seen it all before in cheesy B-rated movies. The inept police finally find one body of the teenagers (who's been underwater for hours) and somehow magically (remember "magically") revive her with CPR. They then send her home with a deputy. Soon they recover another body and discover it's the same girl with her heart ripped out! "Uh-Oh!", they think. Switch scenes to the deputy's car where we find him dead 💀 and the back door to his police car 🚔 open. We see the newly possessed teenage girl (by the witch) covering herself in a gray blanket now walking down the road. And that's how this genius of a movie ends. I can't believe I watched the whole thing on Halloween 👹when there are so many better scary movies out there.