Granted, I have to admit that I harbored zero expectations to this 2024 horror movie as I sat down to watch it here in 2025. Why? Well, the movie's title and cover just wasn't exactly screaming stellar horror movie. But as the old saying goes 'don't judge a book by it's cover', then of course I gave writer and director Daniel Yates's 2024 movie a fair chance. Sure, I had never heard about the movie prior to watching it, so I didn't know what I was in for.
The storyline in "Salem Witch Doll", however, fell way, way short of entertaining me. It felt like a very disjointed storyline, as if writer Daniel Yates didn't really know in what direction to take the movie, and trying a bit of too many things, but accomplishing nothing in the process. I was not entertained by the storyline and narrative in the movie.
I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. And I will say that the acting performances were fair enough.
The movie does have a lot of nice scenic shots, which looked great, but hardly were important to movie, aside from establishing that the family were somewhere in the wilds, far away from civilization.
The music in the movie was insanely annoying. It was way too loud, over-dramatic, and was essentially almost just noise. It grew very tiring listening to that during what was supposed to be dramatic or scary scenes, as it ended up ruining the mood of the scene.
My rating of "Salem Witch Dolls" lands on a two out of ten stars.
