NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Michael Ledo In ancient times Isobel Redwood (Danielle Bux) is accused of killing her son and is hung as a witch. Her body is cut up into 9 pieces and buried. The tree is cursed as is the house/ pig farm of St.Jonas. Other children die there and dare others to touch the tree. A mom (Sarah Rose Denton) with two children Emma (Lucy Clarvis) and Jake (Lawrence Weller) unknowingly move into St. Jonas. Neighborhood bullies force Jake to play Ouija Board in the barn with the expected negative results.The film starts off interesting and maintains interest in spite of the lame mother. The characters were not really developed that well. I enjoyed the ghost/witch/haunting story watching it cold without reading the back cover. (Okay I did read the back cover but quickly forgot it.) The problem with the back cover and IMDB is that the second word is a plot spoiler which ruins the twist. It is like knowing the twist in "The Other" before you watch it. If you plan on watching the film, don't read about it.Guide: F-bomb, sex? nudity (Lucy Jane Clarvis)

jtlytle-1 I bought this DVD few days ago and was looking forward to watching it very much. On this DVD, CRUSE OF THE WITCHING TREE, it shows "CC" (Closed Captions) and "SDH" (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) on the back cover. I am profound deaf and have been depending on captions/Subtitles. I found that this DVD, CRUSE OF THE WITCHING TREE, isn't Captions nor Subtitle. I can not return the DVD back because it was already opened. Is there a reason why it was false advertising? Is it about taking advantage from deaf people buying a worthless DVD and you collect money from it? We demand an equally accessible to all method of communications in all media, but not left behind. Thank you for listening/reading this.

Monsieur Tabernac After watching this film, I see it less as a feature film, but more of a resume for the director, as he strives to get a job as a professional filmmaker.This is undoubtedly a amateur/homemade production: the cast seems to outnumber the crew (with possibly some overlap) and the writer/director, James Crow, also credits himself as producer, cinematographer, editor, casting (big giveaway there) and lyric writer.So as a resume, I say well done. You obviously have quite a bit of technical skill -- the horror scenes were generally well done and your framing wasn't bad (you didn't overdo it with the closeups, for example). I hope somebody in "the biz" notices and gives you a position as assistant or third-unit director on a future project.As a film, however, it is less than stellar. The acting really is bad. As more than one reviewer has noted, the film is awash with over-acting (for example, the nurse warning our heroes not to get too optimistic about their father's recovery from a coma. Cringeworthy!) The lead actress isn't bad, but most of the others seem more like friends of the director than professional actors. The plot is a bit confused, and our director doesn't really help make some events less difficult to comprehend (especially the ending, as it seems blinking at the wrong time may make you miss something pivotal) . Dialogue is somewhat pointless too.Some nicely done set pieces make some of this film watchable, but I really wouldn't recommend it as entertainment.

jackstupidjack I don't know who has written the other reviews here but I'm guessing they're connected to this heap of dross in some way. Only a mentally deficient person could possibly extract a single positive from this utter nonsense. The acting isn't even Am Dram standard, to compare it so would be unfair on the many wholehearted folks who participate in Am Dram. Wooden, spiritless and talentless. The story is beyond preposterous, the characters ludicrous, especially the moody teenage girl and 'tearaway' young lad. What I can't understand is how the directors and producers when watching rushes of this film didn't throw their hands up and admit they have made an utter howler and just bin the lot. That would have been the kind thing to do for the world at large.