Aside from the issues, I did enjoy the Pyewacket. It had a nice found footage feel without actually being found footage. Would I watch it again? I’m not sure but I definitely recommend giving this movie at least a once over.

| Sep 15, 2022

It actually takes itself very seriously... I felt the terror between the characters and the teen.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 14, 2021

Part family drama and part supernatural horror, Adam MacDonald's second feature, Pyewacket, shows what happens when a morbid curiosity with the occult becomes a terrifying pact that can't be undone.

| Original Score: 4.0 | Jul 30, 2020

Reportedly a horror flick, Pyewacket is at heart a film student short stretched into 90 minutes. And that's the least of its problems.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2020

Pyewacket is a tale of what happens when people can't reconcile reality with fiction, when mental health issues allow fantasy and folklore to mingle with reality.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 29, 2019

A solid genre film that leans too much on obvious symbolism. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2019

A film so bad that if you go and see it, you are committing a grave error. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 31, 2019

Given the lack of budget at his disposal, it's impressive how MacDonald is able to conjure up such an unnerving atmosphere.

| Nov 3, 2018

An enjoyable thriller that stalks the multi-layered aspects of grief, family dynamics, and psychological salvation with a haunting accuracy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2018

MacDonald's screenplay teases and delays, ramping up the psychological tension and employing a few deft narrative surprises that keep us guessing, especially with regard to the timing of Pyewacket's arrival.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 21, 2018

Pyewacket encapsulates the teenage experience in a very real way and, despite the genre setting, offers a fairly honest portrayal of some mother-daughter dynamics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Takes an age-old proverb—"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it"—and puts its own diabolical spin on it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2018

With a film generating genuine thrills, it's hard to fault it too heavily its clumsy narrative and characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 19, 2018

...a decent (yet flawed) genre exercise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2018

MacDonald clearly wanted this to be a simple, heartfelt tale focusing on the disintegration of a mother/daughter bond, without too much background noise as a distraction. And he mostly succeeds in delivering just that.

| Apr 30, 2018

The director is out for blood, and while this is a slow-burn affair that craftily bides its time until just the proper moment to unleash a flurry of dexterously ominous thrills, the craven wickedness of it all is portentously intoxicating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2018

It is a set-up as old as time, but this chilling, frequently terrifying work of horror manages to find fresh nightmare fuel in dark woods and incantations muttered in the moonlight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2018

A slow-burn chiller with an excellent sense of creepiness, "Pyewacket" handles evil and angst with tremendous skill.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 28, 2018

While Pyewacket may not be perfect, it's still a promising little feature, proving its writer/director definitely has a distinct genre voice, as long as he learns to polish the more recognizable elements into something unique.

| Mar 27, 2018

It's the rare horror film that's actually more effective in psychological terms than in suspense ones.

| Mar 24, 2018