It emulates the most common traits of indie horror podcasts: an underbaked premise, exploiting a surface level understanding of history, and dragging things out far too long.

So little happens in this possession story that it felt like paint was drying, with the same cliche attempts at jump scares waiting for you over and over again. It doesn't seem to fully commit to any of its story elements, and utterly fails to respect your intelligence in its narrative. Most critically,…

So this film has 12 year old Saoirse Ronan in brown face... so that's a thing.

Sure it's a historical piece, but the use of it feels entirely unnecessary and it fails to really create any social commentary from it. The act they're performing in context could just as well not have employed a ton of racial stereotypes, or it could have drawn on its imagery more to make a point.

As for the film, it's a bit of a…

I guess I'm the lowest score on this short to date.

We get a couple of these every year at the festival I serve as a jurist on. Home movies cut together into an emotional montage with very little in the form of cohesive story or thesis or anything to really make them engaging for a stranger. This is better than most of them, but at the end of the day we're always faced with the question of "Would I…