When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make – she's getting stronger.
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Nate H. reviewed The Witch in the Window (2018)
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I have heard that Shudder has some decent offerings for original content. I was up late and this one was a little over an hour long, so I figured I would give it a spin. I really hope this isn't par for the course in what the young network has to offer.
The Witch in the Window is bad in many ways. Its biggest flaw is just how boring it is. It has a long intro before it gets going--and I say gets going with sarcasm--kinda trying out one of those Deer Hunter numbers where you bond with the players in the first act. But I didn't really like that approach even in that classic, and Witch in the Window never makes up for that slow trod onward. It starts with a long look at a son spending some time with his oft-absent padre, the two trying to get the father/son bonding thing going while working on a house the dad is trying to flip. But its boring stuff and over its course you don't grow to care about either of these two.
And when the "scary" part starts in, its all run of the mill, now you see the witch, now you don't type of action, inducing yawns and glances at the watch in an effort it will somehow get viewers to the ending. This could have got a 1 star save one very brief creepy moment in the middle that got past all the boringness and cliche horror tropes. Watch something else.
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