The Hammer of Witches: The Screech Owl

Good attempt at what appears to be a smidge above a student made film. The acting was not horrible, but also not good. Perhaps the wooden dialogue tripped the actors up. I felt like the sound of the film threw me off. It seemed like the actors were all talking into a microphone in a totally controlled environment and made it seem dubbed without much of the environment included. Once they finally got to the antagonist portion of the movie the camera work attempted to make up for the lack of costuming or special effects. That was distracting and not effective, lots of shaking, weird coloring and darkness to create a scary effect I assume. Would not recommend to any friends, but I did finish it. However that felt like a feat even with the short run time. The idea of the story seemed interesting but it was not brought to screen well. Maybe it was too low budget, but even with that I felt like it could have been adapted better.