Director: Sam L. Siragusa
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: Olc Curse
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Trying to get over a traumatic incident, a woman and her husband find a strange doll on vacation which soon triggers a series of supernatural events involving her and her friends which they learn is the result of a deadly curse involving the family and must stop it before it comes to fruition.
Review:
This one does have a few big problems as it’s not that good. The biggest issue here is the egregious and laughably inappropriate reactions to everything going on. This one tends to ostensibly focus on a group of friends realizing they’ve fallen victim to a deadly curse yet this one seems to think that the rightful response to learning of a family sacrifice is to be upset about a secret hook-up years ago within the group, to write off supernatural attacks and encounters despite obvious evidence to the contrary or to suddenly go digging through their make-up preparing for a date instead of dealing with the oncoming curse about to affect them.
The other big problem here is the obvious and hardly appealing low-budget feel that screams amateur-hour production. The general technical qualities, from laughable CGI-quality ghosts popping out of nowhere to conversations that fade out due to barely-audible recording quality and utterly obvious camera-quality all manage to make this one look cheap and cheesy. Since there’s very little about any of this which makes sense as the film just carries on through scene after scene without making any sense. All in all, this highlights the incompetent technical work all the more and results in a jumbled, confusing mess of a good idea wasted on these issues.
There are a few decent elements here. Among its better features is the efficiency that it gets everything ready and spelled out for the audience. In the span of the first ten minutes, the girls ‘traumatic encounter with the intruder, the relationship with her friend and how they get introduced to the troublesome doll by visiting the antique shop which starts the supernatural hauntings and visions she soon experiences are all given out. It’s rather nice that this is revealed pretty quickly and gives this a great pickup to going along from there with the various encounters and subplots due to this engaging and energetic opening.
That also ties in the film’s other enjoyable element in the constant supernatural attacks. With the dolls coming involved early on here, there’s a lot to like here with the scenes of them moving around on their own in creepy manners to starting to manipulate objects around them to attack the group. The scenes of the girls’ encountering strange disappearing noises and figures out in the park are a couple of solid suspenseful scenes while the final features an enjoyable ritual that’s a prelude to the battle with the group against the dark forces of the curse in a fine, energetic enough battle. While it’s not much, these are the film’s positive elements.
Overview: 0.5/5
A generally awful and somewhat incompetent film in most regardless that has enough of a watchable air to it that manages to keep the film on without turning it off, there’s not much to really enjoy about this one. Really only look for this one if you’re a fan of these low-budget indie efforts, while those looking for more substance than that, not a fan of this style or turned off by the flaws should really avoid outright.
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