Pyewacket [Movie Review]

Pyewacket [Movie Review] | This is another film that popped up from a TikTok recommendation. According to the user, it involves witches and elements of black magic.

Alright then. Let’s give it a shot. 

SYNOPSIS

Pyewacket (2017) Trivia

• Starring: Laurie Holden & Nicole Muñoz
• Director: Adam MacDonald
• Producer: Andrew Bronfman, Jonathan Bronfman, Lori Fischburg, Victoria Sanchez Mandryk, Jeff Sackman & Joe Sisto
• Production Company: JoBro Productions & Film Finance & Just Believe Productions
• Distributed by: Les Films Seville & Entertainment One
• Release date: December 8, 2017
• Running time: 88 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: Canada
• Language: English
• IMDb: 5.8/ 10
• Tomatometer: 83%
• Metascore: 56%
• The name Pyewacket comes from a 17th century English witch trial during the Witch Trials of Matthew Hopkins, where an accused woman claimed one of her familiar spirits was called Pyewacket. 
• The symbols, chants and ritual structure draw inspiration from real grimoires and folklore traditions, though they were simplified for the film.

Leah Reyes is not your typical teenager. While others scroll through their phones or gossip about school drama, Leah is fascinated by black magic demons and the occult. Books about summoning rituals sit comfortably in her bedroom. To her, they are possibilities.

Life becomes heavier after her father dies. Grief changes everything in the house. Her mother, overwhelmed and exhausted, decides they need a fresh start and moves them to a secluded house deep in the woods. For Leah, it feels like exile. New school and no friends. Just silence, trees and tension growing between her and the one person she still has.

One night their arguments explode into something ugly. Angry and hurt, Leah storms into the forest with one of her occult books and performs a ritual meant to summon a demon named Pyewacket. Her intention is simple and cruel. She wants the demon to kill her mother.

Shortly after the ritual, mother and daughter share a rare moment of warmth. Regret hits Leah almost immediately. But she just shrugs it off.

Strange things begin happening inside the house. Sounds echo from the attic when no one is up there. Dirt appears on the floor as if something tracked it in from the forest. At night, something dark watches from the corners of her room.

Leah starts to suspect she may have awakened something real.

Desperate to undo what she started, she seeks help from friends and eventually from a paranormal investigator named Rowan Dove. His warning is unsettling. The demon she summoned is cunning. It can change its shape and can become anyone.

And until the ritual is reversed, Leah cannot trust what she sees.

Soon the forest becomes the only place where the nightmare might end. But the deeper Leah goes into the woods, the harder it becomes to tell what is real and what is not.

When fear begins wearing the faces of the people she loves most, one terrible decision sets everything on fire.

If your own eyes could betray you, how would you ever know the monster was really gone? 

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Learning a new Canada folk horror.  
• Powerful performance. 

What I Don't Like:

• Slow burn and not much jump scare. 

Will I Watch It Again: Sure, I don't mind watching it again but not in my priority list.

Overall: 4.0/ 5.0

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