The greatest movie ever made..!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Really, there is not one original frame in this flick. Not one. You've seen everything here before and you can see what's going to happen from 10 miles away.At the risk of giving out spoilers, I won't go into the details. Let's just say that this is a poor man's Amityville Horror or The Shining or...any countless other haunted house films made in the past 100 years or so.The good news is I won't remember how unoriginal and uninteresting this film was 10 minutes from now. How come I didn't give the movie a 1? The cinematography wasn't too shabby; did kind of look like digital film, though which, truth be told, just does not for a film-look make. Digital video has its place in music videos and commercials, but in movies, a less-clean, slightly-muted look is preferable. All involved tried their best with the lousy, unoriginal script they had. Could've been worse, but also could've been better.

This is by far the worst film I have seen in many a year. The acting is more wooden than the tree in the title, the casting is shocking (The son has a posh Southern accent and the daughter a northern accent, plus the Mother must of been about 4 when she had the daughter)and even the sound is something you expect from a home movie you'd see on You've Been Framed. The camera-work is very poor too and over uses different angles and cuts away without need too may times.Somebody should of been honest with the director at it's first screening and told him not to release this as it will bound to haunt him (more than this film haunted me anyway) in years to come if he really wants a career in film making.Let my one good deed for 2015 be to warn everybody not to watch this.I actually created this profile to post this review, YES... It is that bad!

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.

We bought this as a Friday night pizza and beer type film designed to be cheap fun. Instead we got a surprisingly high quality chiller. The Curse of the Witching Tree is a slow burn horror that's clearly meant to suck you in.Avoiding the standard gore fest style of things like Saw and Hostel this instead goes for a chilling, atmospheric approach more akin to The Others. There are no big budget special effects, instead you are drawn into a family in turmoil, their tension building as yours does, when they try to draw the line between the everyday horrors of life and the supernatural ones that are unwittingly unleashed.It is a low budget film, hence the price, but it's much more than just a shlock horror. Instead you have a decent story, decent acting, decent shots – all in all a good looking film that well deserves a watch.