beorhhouse A Goth girl is frustrated by her father's death and her mother's inability to collect herself after the passing of her loyal and loving husband. In a fit of fury, the girl takes seriously the Black Magic books all of her friends study and calls a demon forth called Pyewacket (one of the demons spoken about in Salem during the Witch Trials) to kill her mother. But the demon is smarter than the girl and pretends to have killed the mother and then masquerades as the dead woman. The teenager becomes confused, believing the body of her mother is real, when we know it was only Pyewacket pretending to be the dead woman. The Goth then encounters the sheer power of the demon while her mother is still away in the small town near where they live. She runs to the attic for safety, and the demon follows her in the shape of her mother. But is this really the demon? The girl thinks it is, and so takes a bucket of gasoline to her mother's bedroom--still believing her mother is dead--and douses the "demon" then sets it on fire. It turns out to be the girl's actual mother, and so insanity ensues as we see that Pyewacket has indeed done what it was summoned to do--kill the mother-- and then, as demons always do, has turned its ferocity on its summoner.

westsideschl The scariest part, and had nothing to do with the movie, was the DVD cover. Tactic seen before on extreme cheap productions. Storyline: Teen daughter and divorced mom argue over independence (what's new). Teen girl w/off the shelf book on the occult gets a chant (and she's apparently the only one who has done this?) to call up baddie spirit. The usual few drops of blood, say a few meaningless words, and done in the woods of course. Scaries: A couple scenes of a few seconds of shadow in darkened room. A few seconds of spider like crawling figure in distance. Friend has an unseen scary moment so we see her acting scared by sitting in car. Closing scenes has someone acting possessed in a really put-you-to-sleep boring way. Oh, and music and the required expectation of course.

Sankari_Suomi A teenage girl hates her mother, as most teenage girls do. At the height of her rage she attempts to summon the mysterious demon Pyewacket, commanding him to kill her mother so she can run away and become a happy orphan.The results of the ritual appear inconclusive, but during the next few days mysterious shenanigans ensue, and the daughter begins to suspect she has actually summoned... PYEWACKET!I rate Pyewacket at 23.31 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a dysfunctional 7/10 on IMDB.

lost-in-limbo Decent, but I was a little disappointed in how the Canadian independent horror "Pyewacket" went about setting up its narrative and final denouncement. All mood, predictable tradegy filler, secluded house in the woods, occult doodling, an unstable mother and lonely daughter relationship leads to a rush of blood to the head ending in harrowing regret. The summoning of an evil entity to fulfil a wish, bad vibes and death slowly toying, and manipulating its victims to serve a purpose.Really, not much happens for three quarters of the film with a routine set-up going through the motions, and then its creeping structure becomes perilously high stakes. It's light on the thrills and minimal effects, favouring a less is more approach of camera trickery, atmospheric toiling and pounding thuds. So if you're tired of jump scares, your in luck because you going to get something quite reserved for the majority of the time. The supernatural force early on, is deliberately kept off-screen. After a creepy first appearance as a black shapeless apparition seeping from the walls unbeknown to the sleeping daughter, it disappears, yet the presence is always felt preying upon each and every step of those on the estate. Finally the entity comes to the forefront and makes itself known in the third act, but even then its quite limited on how far it goes, and it's over in a matter of minutes. Finishing on a disturbing and nasty executed climax with decisive sting in its tail twist, but the effectiveness of the twist doesn't work, because you see it coming. The story blatantly lets you in on it, just before the delirium kicks in. Now was meant to be a twist, because it felt like one, yet it doesnt feel like it paid off?So was this simple slow-burn horror; of quick cutaways, false lingering build-ups and ominously "loud" sound FX (and boy is it overused) all constructed around its (shocking?) final scenes. If so, it misses the point since as a viewer we are already steps ahead. Everything comes to an abrupt ending, where certain details brought up about the consequences (discussed by an occult expert) surrounding the black ritual, are now skimped over, or forgotten about in its closing scenes. In a way, it feels like a lot of hot air. Technically well-made; great location shooting and solid acting by Nicole Munoz and Laurie Holden sharing honest portrayals, but still it's a lot of hot air.