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Wake the Witch - Special Edition

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The most booring movie if you can call it that. Budget was probably not over three hundred dollars.
Buy a candy bar with the money you save not watching this one.

The movie starts out slow and builds slow. Stefanie Tapio (lone movie credit) plays a credible Deb Allen. The story centers around her, her family problems, boyfriend problems and desire to be a photographer. I thought her acting skills were quite good, however the rest of the cast and much of the dialouge left something to be desired. This low budget movie suffered from bad camera angles, such as showing us the back of someone's head while they are talking, or the facial closeup of Deb's mom (Barbara Elias) while she is having breakfast.

While taking pictures of her 2 girlfriends (Karis Yanike and Rachel Lien) in the woods, the girls uncover a buried chain, which according to local legend was used to hang a witch. The girls play a game called, "Wake the Witch" so they can ask the witch questions about their boyfriends. Afterwards, strange events slowly start to happen.

The ending of the film was unexpected. The picture spent too much time focusing on Deb Allen instead of leaving clues for the twist. The movie is more of a mystery than a horror film. Good low budget effort that can be improved upon.

F-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

This is not a professionally made movie. So low budget it feels like a student made-film - middle school student. Production companies make the big bucks for a reason and even Paranormal Activity, a relatively low budget movie, was produced with a basic level of quality. This is not scary or watchable. We shut this movie off after 20 minutes and it was pretty unbearable the entire time. Do not waste your time or money.

To say this movie was horrible would be a compliment. Mystery Science Theater wouldn't even touch this one. Acting was bad, story was even worse. Kept watching it in hopes something would happen. I'm a huge fan of horror and even "b" grade movies, but this was way below par.
Keep your money. I wish I had.