The Summoning

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Oct 13, 2017 Absolutely dreadful. If the writing wasn't bad enough, the audio quality was alarmingly poor. The producers only goal was to hit the 90 minute mark. So many confusing, wasted scenes that make you shake your head in frustration. In horror, be The Shining or Sharknado. Anything in between is quicksand for your career and eyelids. I've never watched a movie with zero likeable characters. In B movies, you typically have that one edgy, snarky side character that provides occasional comic relief and something to root for. Unfortunately, every role was as bland as the next. Truly, truly horrible. See more

Theodore S Jun 11, 2017 The story could have worked out. Poor direction, not the best acting and an ending that makes you feel you wasted your time. See more

Harry W Feb 7, 2017 *SPOILERS* I was really excited to see this movie because I live in Sugar Land. I'm just going to get on with is and say that this movie is terrible. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It raises more questions than answers. There is little to no emotion. Also, does no one know how to turn on lights? There are scenes where people are studying in the dark. The detective cooks dinner in the dark. The lead invites someone into her house for the first time and it is literally pitch dark and no one ever turns on a light. Also, they add in a story line about the detective that shows him killing a pedophile who killed his daughter and you think that it will somehow become relevant to the story. Nope. They just threw that in there for fun because it never ties into anything. The movie has a tagline along the lines of "Do you know who is buried under your house?" Is this tagline at all relevant to the movie? Nope. There is one spirit present throughout the movie and it is the spirit of a dead white woman who has only been dead a few years and she didn't even die in the house where the spirit activity was happening. I also found this funny because of the numerous mentions of dead slaves - and then it turns out that this college student is trying to solve the case of a dead white woman. And that's basically what the story is about. Also, the lead's friend/case partner...what happened to him? One minute he has a pocket watch and a photo that apparently is evidence enough to have cops break into his house with a sawed off shotgun and the next we never hear about him again. Also, the ending? It ends with the detective (who somehow figures out that the bad guy is at the lead character's house even thought he has no idea that the two have ever met) running up the stairs - in the dark of course - and then the credits roll. Literally NOTHING in this movie makes sense or ties together at all. And we never even see any spirits. Oh, and my mom and I cracked up at this: The lead gets kidnapped by the spirit and is "trapped" in the sugar factory for maybe 12 hours at the most. When she gets "rescued" she looks like she's been there for a week. Also, later in the film we laughed about how she was unable to find her way out of the sugar factory when she was kidnapped, but is able to break in with absolutely no problems later in the film. Oh God this just made no sense at all. See more

Hagrid L Jan 12, 2017 Reminiscent of a 1970's/1980's thriller at times. Engaging murder-mystery story with great acting. Not to be confused with other films that have the same title. This one is top-notch. See more

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