Entertaining but underwhelming!

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2016)

I had been wanting to see this film for a while after seeing the trailer - which looked incredible. I enjoy films about witchcraft so I had very high hopes for this movie.
The eerie atmosphere is evident right from the get go and is maintained throughout the film with camera shots/music etc. So very well done visually. The acting is also brilliant. I often find that child actors can be a little cringey in horror movies but in this case they outdid the older actors.
However, I felt that each time there could have been potential for a really scary moment - whether that be a jump scare or something gory etc, it fell flat. It was definitely advertised as a horror and although it was filmed in a very creepy way which helped add to the tension, I felt it did not reach its potential and the trailer was actually quite misleading. I was also very disappointed with the ending, which was rather anticlimactic.
So all in all, maybe not the first film I'd recommend spending your money going to see but it was entertaining nonetheless!