Your Company
 

Pyewacket

✭ ✭ ✭   Read critic reviews

Canada · 2017
1h 30m
Director Adam MacDonald
Starring Laurie Holden, Nicole Muñoz, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne
Genre Thriller, Horror, Drama

Occult-obsessed teen Leah Reyes is livid at her mother for moving the two to a remote woodland cabin after the death of Leah's father. In an act of wrath, Leah performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill Mrs. Reyes. Though Leah later regrets her actions, it is too late to stop what has responded to her request.

Stream Pyewacket

What are people saying?

What are critics saying?

70

Variety by Dennis Harvey

It’s the rare horror film that’s actually more effective in psychological terms than in suspense ones.

25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Kate Taylor

The heavy-handed score, narrow performances (Nicole Munoz as the repeatedly terrified daughter; Laurie Holden as the dense mum) and weak dialogue all fail to justify a provocative ending that overturns the exorcising conventions of the genre.

70

Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray

Pyewacket's payoff is a bit too meager given the creepy build-up. But as a psychodrama about a troubled mother and daughter, this movie is gripping from start to finish. Like a lot of the best horror, it's about the hells people conjure for themselves.

Users who liked this film also liked