The movie starts out with a witch trial scene set in Virginia in 1706. The writer apparently has no idea how witch trials worked, where Virginia is, what it would have been like in 1706, or how 18th century English language worked. That was 5 minutes of uninspired annoyance. I mean, if you go through the trouble of making a movie and decide to write dialog with all these "thees" and "thous" (which were already obsolete at the time anyway), wouldn't you take like 5 minutes to read wikipedia and see what they mean? This writer did not. We return to the 18th century later in the film to learn that the writer believes "windeth" was the plural of wind. (Also "you are her way backeth.") Beyond that, it's a vanilla vengeful witch flick that you've seen before, again and again, but with really bad writing. I just don't get the appeal of this witch thing, but I guess horror wouldn't be a genre if they didn't keep repeating the same 4 or 5 stories over and over again. A couple of the actors make a sincere effort. You have to admire that level of professionalism it takes to try to run with this dialog, but nobody could have made this script work. My suggestion: don't stick around until they start blathering nonsense about Einstein and black holes. Those wikipedia articles were not read either.
Review of Pungo: A Witch's Tale
