Director: Pierre Tsigaridis
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Anthology; Witchcraft
Plot:
A two-story anthology about modern-day witches and witchcraft.
Review:
The Boogywoman-While expecting a child together, a couple begins to grow increasingly disturbed following an encounter with a strange woman while out to dinner that results in her seeing strange visions. Attempting to get to the bottom of everything, they enlist the aid of several supernatural means to combat it only to realize how out of their depth they really are. Generally, this was a fantastic segment that has quite a lot to enjoy about it. The atmosphere here is impeccably handled with the constant use of shadowy imagery to hide the feeling that someone or something is in their presence while the resulting jump-scares provide a slew of long looks at the outright chilling and disturbing make-up effects on the witch chasing them. The means through which they turn this into a far more cliched route than expected with an obvious series of events that play out which are no less fun visually despite the storyline familiarity, and the characters gradually become less irritating despite starting off as highly unlikable so it still has those issues to contend with. Still, this is a highly effective and generally creepy start.
Masha-Living with her roommate, a woman becomes increasingly more concerned for her safety when her borderline psychotic behavior is said to be the result of her inheriting her grandmother's witchcraft powers upon her death. As the incidents between the two grow in intensity, they find that there might be something to the sayings after all. While this is slightly weaker, there's still quite a lot to like here. Basically, the main problem is the slow-going and generally rambling setup that becomes somewhat underwhelming with it taking far too long to get to the point where it's obvious what's going on with her but no one else is which causes this to meander around somewhat aimlessly. However, that doesn't discount the fun derived here from the spellcasting and powers being utilized to great effect with several solid jump-scares and some fun encounters flaunting the powers on display. These manage to make the segment fun enough to overcome those slight drawbacks with the storyline.
Overview: ***.5/5
An effective and highly enjoyable effort, this one provides quite a lot to like with its overall presentation and strong overall segments that manage to hold this up over a few minor drawbacks. Those that are intrigued by this type of genre effort or are intrigued by what's going on here while most others out there who don't like the style or approach of the film should heed caution.
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