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Witchboard



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 52m
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Plot Summary: A cursed Witchboard awakens dark forces, dragging a young couple into a deadly game of possession and deception

Poster - Title Card


phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Not as campy and fun as advertised. It can't decide which of the two leads it should follow, but it doesn't matter because they're both boring anyway. Dialogue is all terrible cliches, the story is all over the place, CGI is shoddy and overused, and there is somehow too much plot and not enough plot. More hot mess than fun romp. It's like an old, white, dude wrote and directed an "edgy" movie for the teens... Oh, wait...


Outside Reviews:

Clint Worthington
2.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

That said, a little shakiness can be forgiven for its ultimate camp value; this is a film that doesn't take itself too seriously, even as its characters treat it like Shakespeare (Bower even quotes the Bard with suitable gusto). It's the kind of movie where major revelations are unveiled by a simple Google search, and where drug-dealing fuckboy exes swagger around and talk like a Cajun Matthew McConaughey before being thrown off a roof to a Doors song by an eye-gouging cat. For as shaky as its foundation may be, "Witchboard" offers just enough madcap madness to entertain.