The concept of witchcraft in itself can be terrifying, but when combined with found footage, it is much more frightening and believable. The inclusion of witchcraft brings an additional level of depth to this film’s brutal realism, increasing the level of fear for viewers. The fusion of the ancient world, cursed objects, and terrifying myths gives life to normal places transforming them into dangerous locations that are quite literally bone-chilling. The disturbing combination of historical folklore and found footage as a style evokes the most primal fears within viewers and makes the PTSD-inducing whole experience bone-chilling to any fan of the horror genre.
After watching Macabre Daily’s latest frightful film titled ‘Witches’ Well’ the first thing I encountered was the need to spell myself with some protection charm. Written by Amanda K Morales, who acted in ‘Hell House LLC 2 The Abaddon Hotel’ the film is gripping, but she also has a peculiar style of direction. Here is the overview of the movie
“This film follows a best-selling horror writer who is stalked on Gemini while doing the Scottish Witch Trials book research in Edinburgh.”
An addition to the cleft in ‘Witches’s Well’ gives it a more pleasing element along with the scary world’s creepy stile footage. The camera view of the stalker stalking Leona Chantraine, a well-known horror writer, is very nerve-wracking. The fear of Leona is very fascinating. Alone the video makes one think how easily someone can trigger violence towards women. Her claiming as so says that while the stalker was filming she was already so tired that not only for her sake one would hope the stalker gets bored, but also for Leona’s well-being. The anxiety arises more from the fact that the stalker starts capturing footage of Leona while she rests or more correctly stated while she does not defend herself.
You might want to check your deadbolts after watching this movie. Writer, director, and actor Amanda K. Morales shares the following on her experience during the making of the film
“I had been traveling for several years and was about to head back to the U.S. when I realized I was in quarantine in Edinburgh at the early stages of the Covid Pandemic. I was like Leona, going ‘a little mad.’ And I wanted to tell a story around it. So, combine these infrequent conditions with my deep affection for the found footage genre and a great cinematic chamber piece, and you get a film in which mine is largely the only mug you see sorry about that. On my almost daily walks to the castle, I passed The Witches’ Well, a memorial fountain with a plaque gloating the accusations and executions of the past, and sensing such a small memorial having to carry something so heavy made me a bit sad.”
For some time I have been skeptical about the paranormal phenomena. My non-acceptance of people’s belief in the paranormal has been a constant cause of concern for me. I am the type of person who prefers to delve deeper into something and get convinced. My room as a child had a lot of ‘X-Files’ posters and I made desperate attempts to initiate blood rituals with my friends like the ones in movies such as ‘The Craft‘. However, I regret to point out that I remain an obstinate non-believer. That said, movies are the medium one uses to escape from reality. To me, there is no movie that represents such blissful magic.
In one of Amanda K. Morales’s shocking hybrids, she takes a one-woman performance and morphs it into a found footage horror movie, and if that was not enough, she begs you not to blink. Each scene features Amanda’s height of emotion moving from happiness to terror, where she is the center of attention and fully captures the audience. This is how you will be throughout the entire film utterly shocked at how amazingly powerful and entertaining she is. Her brilliance is demonstrated on and off the camera, where she acts in front of the camera, takes perfectly angled shots, and edits with no visible bumps between cuts. It is astonishing that the shift of the camera incidentally tracking Leona from the stalker’s camera to hers as a recording in the house is so smooth.
This indicates to us that she has poured in a great deal of effort to ensure that this film looks on par with any competing cult-found footage horror flick.
The last part of the movie has remapped the anxiety of our protagonist’s actions to such an extent that she has us all questioning who exactly the real villain is. Along with the anxiety she has built within the audience, there’s also this explanation that she needs to tend to, which we shall get to later in the piece. Is it the stalker? The ghost? A combination of both? There is so much ambiguity that combined with a slow burn along with a well-told story creates an abundant amount of fear that will truly give chills down your spine. Like every good-found footage horror movie, Witches’ Well is worth rewatching so that you can try to find what you may have overlooked on your first viewing, be it the stalker or the sinister figure in the corner. It evokes the same feeling as what Misery is like if its author Paul Sheldon were not just tormented by Annie Wilkes but by some supernatural force that was equally haunting him psychologically.
The risk of venturing into the realm of found footage horror, particularly on the verge of it being oversaturated poses a challenge. However, this film can take pride in standing next to some of the great names of the genre. It lacks outright cliches, such as excessive emotional closeups, shaky camera movements, and grainy footage which so many have experienced over the years. Instead, the main character is placed in the middle of multiple horrifying instances, each of which is conveyed astonishingly. This trapped style of filming makes you wonder just how fast your world could be turned upside down.
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