Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Nigel P This is almost an excellent film, but you have to work to understand what is going on.A family is devastated by the apparent suicide of the son, with the mother Helen (Carolyn Hauck) in particular, making it a personal mission to get to the truth. The acting in this low-budget project is mostly top notch – in Hauck's case, possibly too good; her obsession pushes her into very obvious insanity that wouldn't go unnoticed by those she comes into contact with. It goes beyond 'tell her she's mad, dad' and would surely lead to steps being taken to secure proper care for her – but she's right, of course, to an extent, although the director fills the narrative with so many sped-up shots, blurred images, flashbacks and other effects that occasionally events become incomprehensible. Whilst this is a good way of conveying how Helen (who to me, has a smattering of Sigourney Weaver about her) now sees the world, it can leave the viewer confused. As a result, often the 'quieter' moments are most effective.Suthi Picotte as daughter Kate is also very good in a cast who actually appear to be more concerned with acting than posturing, which can be one of the pitfalls of many modern horror/dramas.There are many films I've thoroughly enjoyed, but it is doubtful I'll visit them again. This deserves more than one airing however, to enjoy again events packed into the fast moving runtime, and also to see many things undoubtedly missed out on.

Brian Erzen *Spolier Free Review* I saw Finale last night and I felt this was an enjoyable low budget horror film, that had some really creative cinematography, and used a dark, and creepy visual effect technique that I haven't seen in too many movies. According the the behind the scene featurette, the producer of the film mentions the movie was shot was a small team of 8 people. It's truly and "indie movie" and it's a solid effort. The films strong points, are the look and style (Mise en scène) with some thought out and creative shots, as well as some damn good cinematography. Finale is work checking out, it's an interesting story that doesn't spoon feed you the answers, something I'll watch again to see what I missed the first time. his movie is worth checking out.

Rabh17 Normally, my rule is NOT to review a movie I didn't like because I believe that while I may not like it, Others may THOROUGHLY enjoy it for reason that have nothing to do with me: In short-- I just wasn't the Target Audience.This one, gives me a sense that while they were AIMING at a target horror audience, they didn't even hit the side of the barn.The central horror of this movie is actually interesting: a Spectral demon or entity called "The Collector" that manifests from reflective objects. The demon concept was the only thing that held me, because it had an ethos about it that made me think of the Sandman/Lucifer graphic novel's supernatural universe. I was hoping they would follow the storyline along that road wherein the main characters would uneasily become aware of a weird/deadly next-door dimension that they had managed to fall afoul of.The problem here is the Central Character: Mommy Dearest.She knows something is wrong, but she FAILS to convince me in the audience that I should root for her to find out the truth. Instead, I roundly and fervently wonder why the HECK no-one has followed common sense and committed the woman to a MENTAL INSTITUTION where she so OBVIOUSLY belongs. . .and that's counting the fact that she is right about her fears. That's BESIDE THE POINT; put her in a RUBBER ROOM NOW.NO. . .Hubby lets her spend days and nights on end rummaging through a decayed burnt out heap of an abandoned house that just SCREAMS: UNBALANCED WEIRDO THINGS. And he just asks her quietly: When will you be home for Dinner? THEN. . when Mommy Dearest goes off her rocker and goes home to smash mirrors and splatter BLACK Paint ALL OVER THE FIRST FLOOR (Thru-out which mayhem, Hubby Dear only comes downstairs AFTER a quarter million $$$ worth of Insurance damage is done. . .) And then they all sit down to a Family dinner with paint splatters everywhere and the Daughter is chided for Bad language at the Table? "Dearie", I hollered at the TV, "just pick up the Phone and dial 911!!" By the time Hubby bought the farm in some deserted gas station bathroom, I had stopped caring.So the Plot failed to instill a sense of why we should care about the Mother's descent into Terror-- because it wasn't a Descent in Terror she was going thru. The Mother was just a cardboard, self-absorbed suburban soccer mom who plainly thinks the world revolves around her wishes. The Daughter was played well, but lacking any real synergy from the Mother's growing awareness of a supernatural danger, she was just a loose character flailing in the wind.The Brother was an Afterthought. But I give him points for narrowly defusing a pipe bomb and saying "Nevermind" to Mommy Dearest's self-absorbed queries beyond the bathroom door.The church Coven failed to instill any dread. They were just a bunch of uppity theatre jerks wearing arch-evil sneers. I mean, come one, they were Small-Time. If a couple of college actors and a double amputee priest were the Best followers the Infernal Realms could come up with, the rest of Christendom has very little to be bothered about, let me tell you. . .And at the end, the movie was over. The "Collector" and the Coven was destroyed-- but I couldn't help the sardonic thought as the sister hugged her bloody brother. . ."You poor fools. . . Mommy's dead, Daddy too-- so who's gonna pay your bills now. . .plus, your house is a dump now that NO Insurance company in their right mind will pay for any repairs, and to boot, you're both the prime suspects for multiple murder counts. . ." Have a Nice Life.This movie is a waste of a rental.

Alan Bannacheck In the beginning of the movie we see Sean and his girlfriend presumably trying to halt a satanic ritual. When the dynamite fails to ignite, Sean is greeted with death through being hung by barbed wire. The rest of the film is directed at his family’s torment afterwords.First off, there is the mother Helen, who suffers from sleepwalking. After discovering some Satanical scrapbooks in her dead son’s room, she starts experiencing waking nightmares which we assume are of the past and what her son was uncovering. Granted there is some chilling sequences and good lighting effects, but the CGI here can be somewhat cheap too.Secondly, we have the daughter Kate, who is encouraged to join theater at her high school. Kate wins the leading role and is paired up with the theater hunk and seems to be optimistic. Unfortunately her mother discovers the director of the play named “Miss Bliss” is the one responsible for conjuring up the demon known as “The Collector of souls.” You can guess where the film goes from here.Overall the movie deserves a 6/10. There are a few good twists and the plot isn’t as cliché as one would expect. The filmography is above par for a B-grade film. The acting wasn’t flawless, but the cast did a convincing job, the left is up to willing suspense of disbelief. I would recommend this for die-hard horror fans into movies about cults.Alan "Skip" Bannacheck -The Horror Encyclopedia