Mark of the Witch (2014)

The version of this film I watched on Amazon Prime was called MARK OF THE WITCH. I'm glad I didn't pay for it. It's a cheap and event-free indie horror about a young woman who descends into a world of black magic on her 18th birthday. The budget is non-existent which means that this is mostly made up of conversations and cheap ritualistic paraphenalia. The problem is that the director is too concerned with making his shots arty instead of telling a substantial story.

I seen this one under the title Mark Of The Witch because marketers still need to ride the witch wave for sales. The film has a young lady celebrating her 18th birthday which begins to set in motion her true destiny of becoming Satan's sorcerer. Dreams and reality are soon blurred as her transition begins.The effects were pretty bad but for a low budget I guess they tried. They were doing some kind of Matrix witchery when everything was slowed down and the witches were fighting each other. The acting wasn't bad for this flick The story was screwed up the way they conveyed it, even worse when we watch five minute intervals of slow motion scenes. Someone had a wonderful vision but I just didn't see it.My other bitch about this witch is it ended after 69 minutes and then 10 minutes of credits. The credits were even done slow motion. Do not bother with this one.

This movie was dreadful. Everything about it was just embarrassing, from the half-baked premise to the sophomoric acting, it looked like a film trapped in the worst part of 80's films, but with a 2016 face lift. The worst offender is that 3/4 of the movie is filmed in slow-motion. You read that right, almost the entire movie literally moves at a snails pace, and why this directorial decision was made I will never understand. What I do understand is that the people responsible or this movie should never go near a computer or a camera ever again, and I will make sure that I NEVER partake in any of their subsequent festival of feces that they call "movies". This movie is as bad as you could possibly get, and just when you didn't think it could get any worse, it dives off a cliff to remind you that there is always worse. One of the most poorly realized films I have ever seen, it will be forgotten like the vomit covered garbage that it is.Anyone giving this movie anything more than the two stars it deserves has no taste, or has worked in the film and does not want to admit that their involvement was in vain. Either way, shame on you for not seeing that being involved with this crap is a failure to humanity. You are what is wrong with cinema nowadays.

I saw this at AOF and really enjoyed it. It reminded me of The Omen. Except instead of Damien being a small boy, it is an attractive and unusually captivating woman. All the pieces line up to her past for her being the spawn of evil. As it delves into demonic possession and dark magics, Jordyn uncovers her past. The story was fairly straight forward without much subplot, which I would say is the main negative. But the acting and cinematography made it compelling to watch. Some of the dialogue was over the top, but that added to the films charm. It had a lot of unusual-ness to it, making it different from the norm of horror. But still worth the watch if you like obscure horror films.