First things first: don't watch this movie if you're waiting for some extreme gore and scares. Reason: it fails in both of them. So, I watched this movie with some friends. We were like "Oh, 'Cult'... must have spells or something like that... lets rent it!". So we did, and two hours later, when the movie's credits started rolling, I said: "Who thought it was crap? I did".
Seriously. The story itself if sort of OK, but the script ruins it completely. The picture itself is too dark and you might have some trouble at finding out what happened in certain parts of the movie.
So, the story is about a group of teenagers (cliché...) who is working on an essay for University, and they decide to write it about a cult. Thing is, this cult has connections with the main character, Mindy, and the movie is all about these connections between characters (with some deaths and blood in the middle). Image-wise, as I said before, the picture is very dark in some scenes, and in others, the camera just doesn't stop moving. OK, this works well with some movies, but in this case, it doesn't. It even makes the movie look even crappier. Adding that to fake CGI effects... As for acting... could be better. Most of the actors don't show much experience in front of the cameras, which leads their roles to "clichéness", typical in these horror movies. The villain himself is as cliché as the "hero survives in the end", which happens in all movies.
Some scenes were made to scare you. Needless to say, they fail. The sounds used are banal and common, which makes these scenes the typical "scare time" of horror movies. I actually could tell when something was going to happen. Predictability.
So, overall, this movie could be much better, if the script didn't turn the story into crap, and if the actors, CGI and sound weren't so commonly used and banal.
Rating: 5/10
Seriously. The story itself if sort of OK, but the script ruins it completely. The picture itself is too dark and you might have some trouble at finding out what happened in certain parts of the movie.
So, the story is about a group of teenagers (cliché...) who is working on an essay for University, and they decide to write it about a cult. Thing is, this cult has connections with the main character, Mindy, and the movie is all about these connections between characters (with some deaths and blood in the middle). Image-wise, as I said before, the picture is very dark in some scenes, and in others, the camera just doesn't stop moving. OK, this works well with some movies, but in this case, it doesn't. It even makes the movie look even crappier. Adding that to fake CGI effects... As for acting... could be better. Most of the actors don't show much experience in front of the cameras, which leads their roles to "clichéness", typical in these horror movies. The villain himself is as cliché as the "hero survives in the end", which happens in all movies.
Some scenes were made to scare you. Needless to say, they fail. The sounds used are banal and common, which makes these scenes the typical "scare time" of horror movies. I actually could tell when something was going to happen. Predictability.
So, overall, this movie could be much better, if the script didn't turn the story into crap, and if the actors, CGI and sound weren't so commonly used and banal.
Rating: 5/10