Michael Ledo In ancient times Isobel Redwood (Danielle Bux) is accused of killing her son and is hung as a witch. Her body is cut up into 9 pieces and buried. The tree is cursed as is the house/ pig farm of St.Jonas. Other children die there and dare others to touch the tree. A mom (Sarah Rose Denton) with two children Emma (Lucy Clarvis) and Jake (Lawrence Weller) unknowingly move into St. Jonas. Neighborhood bullies force Jake to play Ouija Board in the barn with the expected negative results.The film starts off interesting and maintains interest in spite of the lame mother. The characters were not really developed that well. I enjoyed the ghost/witch/haunting story watching it cold without reading the back cover. (Okay I did read the back cover but quickly forgot it.) The problem with the back cover and IMDB is that the second word is a plot spoiler which ruins the twist. It is like knowing the twist in "The Other" before you watch it. If you plan on watching the film, don't read about it.Guide: F-bomb, sex? nudity (Lucy Jane Clarvis)

lathe-of-heaven The reviews sure are all over the place for this film. The negative ones are REAL negative. Hmmm... Well, FWIW all I can do is give you my impressions about the movie. Just an added note (this was after I carefully looked at the ratings of other reviews) YES, I also do NOT like biased or planted '10 star' reviews. However, I notice on the other end of the scale that EVERY negative review has a disproportionately high vote... 5/5, 8/8, 10/10, 25/26. Strangely consistent, wouldn't you say? And yet EVERY positive review is rated EXTREMELY poorly... Does that seem unbiased and fair to you...? Looks like deliberate sabotage to me. I feel that neither extreme is very pretty...Anyway... First off, I want to explain that the reason why I am rating this film as a '6' is primarily because of the last 5 minutes or so. In my lowly and wretched opinion, I really felt that it was very poorly done . However, if the ending had been up to par with the rest of the movie, I would have probably given it a '7'And, although I ***REALLY*** did NOT like the first 5 minute intro or the little $hit child telling the background story (GEEZ... could he have been more irritating...?) once the main, modern part got going I was surprisingly impressed with the quality of the film and the way it was directed. I personally was most impressed with the cinematography and the sound design. I felt these elements were quite strong and really added to the atmosphere and creepy mood of the movie. I like it when modern day Horror films get more aggressive with the soundtrack. Nothing stupid, but just using sounds very effectively to heighten the Supernatural mood and the suspense and tension of the story. I really felt that the director did a very, very good job with that (a true throwback to older Horror films. A very good example of this is the VERY rare 1973 Telefilm 'A COLD NIGHT'S DEATH' {which I happen to have :} where you just basically have 2 guys alone at an Arctic research station where all the people are dead. DAMN good sound design! Typical of Horror films made at that time)The acting too was surprisingly very realistic and believable. Especially with all the family Drama involved, in most cases with films like this, the heightened emotions and acting usually is pretty cringe-worthy and awful. But, I must say that although I was holding my breath just WAITING for some character to grind on my nerves, I actually found the performances overall to be quite good.The story was pretty basic. Nothing wildly innovative here. Just a simple, fairly familiar Ghost Story, and for the most part I genuinely felt that it was put together very well. For me personally, particularly with this kind of Supernatural Horror film, MOOD and ATMOSPHERE are absolutely VITAL above all else. And, I truly felt that the director did this quite a bit better than most other similarly themed films.BUT... and this is indeed a VERY BIG BUT like Mariah Carey's... the way he decided to end the film and wrap up the story just about COMPLETELY undid all the excellent work and effort and nice atmosphere that they worked SO hard up to that point to create. Very sad... I am genuinely puzzled that with all the very good thought and care that, to me anyway, was clearly put into the atmosphere and the quality of the film to make it as believable and as chilling as possible, to end it in such a 'WTF are they thinking...' kind of way baffles me completely.Also, as in many cases when I review films like this where there are strong Supernatural themes, I absolutely MUST emphasize that if you are the kind of person who just does NOT buy into films like this and if you like your Horror more 'Realistic', etc., then chances are that you will NOT like this movie at all. This film is pretty much ONLY for those (like me) who can EASILY suspend disbelief and EASILY find yourself totally engulfed in the Ghostly and Supernatural elements of a story like this. I'm thinking that possibly a number of the extremely negative reviews here that just say general, broad things like 'This is crap' and 'totally stupid', etc. could simply be from people who just do not care for Ghost stories or Supernaturally themed films. I don't know...Anyway... What I would personally suggest is that IF you are the kind of person who REALLY can get into films like this, and... ***VERY*** importantly... if you can kind of try to ignore the really $hitty 1st and last 5 minutes and just sit back and enjoy the rest of the film, which I felt was done very well, then you might have a 'ghost' of a chance of enjoying this movie...

oranse If you enjoy slow British haunted house movies, like I do, then this is a cool little film. Very ambitious. But I can't recommend it to civilians without qualifying it as a slow paced British manor horror. Spooky cinematography and sound design which works at times, and is effective at building a tone. The story isn't so great but they rarely are. Its a decent movie for watching at night, in the dark when its raining. The acting is better than average. Like I said, its ambitious, you can tell the filmmakers were ambitious. THis isn't a mailed in Low Budget SyFy style picture. This movie tries to be a real film. I don't know anything about the production, I rented the DVD from Redbox based on the title and cover art. There have been a few movies kinda like Witching Tree that I have seen over the past year or two. The Woman In Black and the sequel, I guess, and I just saw a movie on Netflix called Altar. I liked all of them. If you don't like those you probably wont like Witching Tree

chrisnp-48091 When you go to kill someone you think is a witch it really is a double edged sword. If the person isn't a witch you've killed an innocent, which let's face it is not good. However if you kill someone who is actually a witch surely things can only get worse.In the case of this film the darn woman turned out to be a witch after all and now all the rest of us are going to pay for it as she unleashes all kinds of hell on the children that play around the tree she was hanged from.Now, a couple of hundred years or so later, an unsuspecting family are moving to the area and are about to pay the price for our forefathers' stupidity.The family in this film are going through a horrible time and seem to think that moving house is going to help them. So they buy a creepy house in the countryside and bad things happen. The Curse of the Witching Tree hits all the horror notes. Creepy place in the country, troubled kids, bullies, Ouija boards, séances - basically a cornucopia of creepy, eerie, nasty things that you just know are going to lead to a whole heap of trouble.The film is a refreshing change from all the faux reality horrors that currently seem to be doing the rounds and is much more of a good old fashioned story told well. In many cases the horror-horror is secondary to the family conflict that is the emotional fulcrum of the film. Yes things go bump in the night, but it is much more impactful when they are happening to people you care about.