Pyewacket (2017) Review

Be careful what you wish for. Someone might be listening.

Pyewacket is the name of a "familiar spirit", a malevolent supernatural entity that assists witches as well as practitioners of the occult. Pyewackets date back to the year 1644 when a "witch finder general" supposedly spotted some performing a ritual out by his house. Convenient.

In the Canadian horror movie Pyewacket, Pyewacket is a demonic witch who wreaks havoc on the life of a teen girl and her widowed mom after the girl summons her in a fit of rage. She quickly regrets it.

Pyewacket is a solid horror movie, scary as hell. I've seen so many horror movies that I can tell you it's been LONG time since I genuinely felt fear watching one. Some movies are shocking, others disturbing, but few are scary anymore. Pyewacket is an exception. It just feels so real. It has a simple story, genuine characters and the situations both the teen and her mom find themselves in are perfectly reasonable. When shit starts to hit the fan I actually felt empathy for everyone involved, because no one could have thought the ritual would have actually worked, or that the entity conjured up would have turned out to be so brutally evil.

Both the sound design and cinematography were fantastic and worked together to set a seriously creepy and intense tone. The gore was minimal, but effective, and the ending leaves you watching the credits roll while trying to digest what you just watched.

Worth Watching?