Awaken the Shadowman: Not a bad movie, not a good one but it's ok. Two estranged brothers are reunited when their mother disappears. But boy is their hometown strange, Adam the prodigal son returning after years ay encounters a cult, Gateway, which helps people emotionally and in doing so teaches that this will improve their lives in a material way. He finds that his mother has a eerie set of dolls with blacked out eyes and meets her even stranger neighbour. Many of the town's inhabitants have suffered losses through fire.
Touches of Rosemary's Baby and even The Stepford Wives permeate the film as an air of paranoia develops and the weird townsfolk seem to keep secrets about many mystifying occurrences. Best of all are the junkyard guys with their freaky metal sculptures closely followed by Adam's old school friend Angela, a doomsayer who looks and acts like a crazed crack cocaine addict. Overall though the acting isn't bad, though the motivation of some of the characters doesn't convince. That may be due to the sometimes flat direction by Woodrow Wilson III who co-wrote the screenplay which has a few plot/logic holes. But it's a watchable trashy B Movie. 5.5/10. On Netflix.
Touches of Rosemary's Baby and even The Stepford Wives permeate the film as an air of paranoia develops and the weird townsfolk seem to keep secrets about many mystifying occurrences. Best of all are the junkyard guys with their freaky metal sculptures closely followed by Adam's old school friend Angela, a doomsayer who looks and acts like a crazed crack cocaine addict. Overall though the acting isn't bad, though the motivation of some of the characters doesn't convince. That may be due to the sometimes flat direction by Woodrow Wilson III who co-wrote the screenplay which has a few plot/logic holes. But it's a watchable trashy B Movie. 5.5/10. On Netflix.