Awaken the Shadowman

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. I made my husband watch it just because the reviews were ok at first, but I can only asume that those reviews were from the pleople involved with the film.

Must be cheap budget, not a good idea for writers to act, or perhaps they were B-Movie actors trying to write, whatever way round it is, this movie didn't get my full attention, it was slow and boring, wish I had taken the other reviews as gospel, and not given it a chance like I always do, 30 minutes of my life I won't get back! I stopped watching live TV because the Adverts were literally wasting my life, a 90 minute movie became 180 minutes; meaning a whole 90 minutes, double the time of the movie is wasted on adverts! My life, that I won't get back, not to mention I am realising, I feel more awake than most people, subliminall messages suppressed perhaps? Any so I stopped, this is like stealing it back! I would rather watch adverts than sit through this drivel though, awaken the shadow man, more like send it to sleep! Certainly if i have trouble sleeping I will now know which movie to turn on! I couldn't make the whole movie, and instead read the full spoiler synopsis, which I wasn't impressed with! If you want to watch it, by all means but if I can save some people from wasting their lives, spending time writing this will be worth it!

When a young couple and their newly born child learn that their mother is missing they race back to their home town to assist in the search only to learn that the town holds a dark secret.

Sadly the dark secret is never fully explained and the film is an anti-climatic empty 90 minutes of boredom.

It's not that nothing happens, it's that nothing even remotely interesting happens.

The movie ends on about 50 question marks and that simply isn't acceptable.

The Good:

Jean Smart

The Bad:

Everyone else

Currently half of the reviews for this movie (the earlier half) are 8-10 stars, while the other half is very low. The high ratings are all from new accounts who have written no other reviews. Hmmmm. This is a pretty good indication that the high ratings are coming from people involved with the film, which I think is really shady. I would have given this 5/10, but am rating it lower to counter the obvious astroturfing.

Anyway, this is an OK indie project that does its best to be eerie/creepy/subtle, and I can appreciate that. No part of this production is Hollywood-grade, but that's not always a bad thing. My main gripe is the rushed ending. It feels like they ran out of time/money and had to wrap it up as quick as possible. There are so many things left open. Not "open to interpretation," but completely ignored. Like parts of the story are missing. Near the end everyone is spouting overly cryptic things at the main character, and he keeps saying, "What are you talking about!?" Then someone says, "Now you know. Now you understand." And he's like, "No actually I don't." This is the moment I really connected with him.

Oh, and then right after that exchange, we flash forward an unspecified amount of time, with no explanation of what happened after the cult did its thing, why it was doing the thing in the first place, or how the guy escaped them and got out of the basement. Roll credits. ...ok thanks?

This movie is horrible. It's slow, excruciatingly boring, annoying...the story isn't interesting, the characters aren't likable, and most of the acting is garbage. I watched it because I'll watch anything with 5 or more stars...how this got 5 stars boggles the mind. To say this is an average horror movie is shameful. Avoid this dumpster fire...