A successful lawyer called Marquis pilots his family back to his home state of rural Kentucky when his father passes away but during a violent storm over a mountainous region the cheap looking CGI aeroplane crashes. With no sign of his wife or kids he appears to be the sole survivor, badly injured he is taken in by an old couple, the wife Eloise is a witch and they have something nasty planned for Marquis. An old photograph dated 1860 suggests that Eloise is incredibly old but nothing is made of this. The acting is a mixed bag, the movie was filmed in South Africa and the cast includes a few non-Americans trying to sound American. There is one good jump scare, the soundtrack is suitably moody and there is one very gory scene featuring a metal stake being removed and reinserted in Marquis's foot. The creepy Hoodoo dolls look great. Sadly there are some very dumb plot decisions and I couldn't make sense of the disappointing ending.
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