Wow this is low budget. Really low budget. Well not that that’s a problem – you can appreciate a flick that makes itself with the minimum of equipment, especially if someone’s just starting out. Gotta respect that. Not everyone is rich, because as you know reader, big budgets don’t necessarily mean quality.
Beginning with an introduction so dismally bad proves at least you know what you’re going to get. After finding themselves a house, two young renters invite their friends around to celebrate their new life only to discover evil spirits haunting their newly purchased property, and are plagued with nightmarish hallucinations and the vision of a disfigured nun. Well doesn’t that just suck. Kind of like this film as well.
Set predominantly in the haunted house, and sometimes in the pool out back (did you really need to rent a whole swimming pool!?), the new owners party and get drunk, falling into the clutches of the bizarre apparition which appears to have the intention on killing them all. The kids are defenseless against the evil entity, with only the shady sales agent who sold them the property in the first place seeming to stand a chance of survival.
This is straight-up cheap low fi horror. Rather than make a serious attempt to produce a meaningful adventure, Holy Terror spends an hour deliberately rolling around in its own ineptitude with a talentless cast and a story written presumably by an inexperienced and very hormonal teenager. Amateurish in every aspect, the camera work is awkward, the editing skills leave much to be desired with even the grindcore loop left noticably unfixed, and the rushed production – especially the half-baked antagonist – is cringeworthy and almost painful to watch.
Though it’s unreasonable to expect a classic maybe, at least a token of originality could have been attempted, like the dream sequence in the beginning for instance; this is a nice diversion and may have been expanded. The evil duo of monk characters have a nice sense of menace and also could have been employed a little further. Thankfully the film is cut short at 60 minutes before it becomes completely insufferable.
2/10
Possession Media 