I have no idea where to begin with this disaster.
Oh I know, how about audio normalization or sound design? It seems that the director (Dan T. Hall) has never heard of either of those. Majority of the dialogue in this movie is a mumbling mess made worse by terrible soundtrack which comprises of a guy punishing his violin in tone-deaf attempt to create "horror" music. I had to turn on loudness equalization in my Sound Blaster control panel to minimize the loudness changes.
Without equalization, you'll increase volume to hear the mumbling actors who are incapable of speaking up only to be blasted with a loud zinger and soundtrack the next moment trying to jump "scare" you.
This movie feels like someone was trying to learn After Effects while editing it. Audio is a disaster, but it doesn't come close to the editing for scenes.
Random camera cuts aren't that annoying until they are pointlessly (or "artistically") accompanied by slow-mo video and then instantly, fast forwarded video. Most of the scenes are shot through terrible camera angles and slo- mo/fast-forwards. Also, why is the movie shot like a TV show and not a movie? (like it was shot in 30 FPS and not 25 usual)
Then there is the little fact that they keep using same scene of that "crypt" over and over again. I am guessing the whole "crypt" was a sewer which which lasted few meters forcing them to re-use same footage to make it look longer. The old church shots are shot somewhere else and the so called "crypt" looks like a completely different brick and mortar architecture. Derp.
There is so much more, the "monster" in this movie is a terrible "Scream" movie mask only animated on-screen through After Effects magic. Then there is the "dust particle effect" they are so fond of using to show its presence, which looks incredibly out of place in all areas, especially for an "ancient" creature.
Oh and that creature is lonely, so that's why it must hunt.. women? Wut. They show it killing everybody and not doing anything different to the women, but then two men are randomly spared from its wrath.. why? The whole stupid story is a mess. It makes no sense, has way too many plot holes and the actors are just awful, AWFUL. The worst is the priest who, I swear, was reading most of his lines from a script in his hand in some scenes.
This movie was a pain to sit through. It isn't even bad in a good way so you could enjoy it with a bag of popcorn. This is the movie they now use to torture people instead of water-boarding.
