I made a mistake. I'll watch any movie involving zombies, a post-apocalyptic setting, the paranormal, or witches. I got Cherry Tree in the mail, flipped it over, and at the end of the synopsis it says From the director of Wake Wood (David Keating). I saw Wake Wood. While I wouldn't consider it a bad movie by any means, what it was was unpleasant and gross. Not a movie I'd sit through again, so I got rid of it. Cherry Tree suffers from similar issues (I'd consider Keating to be a Master of All Things Unpleasant), though it is also a pretty bad movie.
So, Faith goes to this private school for young teenage girls (where part of their school uniform is a tight black skirt with black stockings... Yup, written by a guy. Also, naked shower scene!), and her new field hockey coach happens to head a local witches coven. Her Dad's health has taken a turn for the worst, and only has a few months to live. This entire premise grows even more suspicious when you spot his doctor (literally just standing around) beneath the cherry tree with the coven. What's a girl to do? Tell me if you've heard this before: She agrees to a pact with Field Hockey Witch to save her father, in exchange for a baby. Oh jeez, what could possibly go wrong? Yes, this story's biggest sin is an incredibly tired premise.
I hope you like scenes of large, poisonous centipedes burrowing into skin, as well as crawling in and out of varius orifices. Wow, is this movie packed with them. SPOILERS: Er, Faith wants to save her 6-week Satan baby, so she travels down through the tunnels that lead to the coven's hideout, guided by her charred Dad, from beyond the grave, somehow. Only, she's too late, but she takes the dead baby anyway. Somehow... Some way... She defeats the head witch (I need a head scratching gif here).
Ok, at the very end, she denies she's a witch. Yet she was able to perform the witch's re-animation ritual (head scratch). And the denial wasn't done to avoid scaring the kids! I literally LOL-ed at the very end. I won't spoil it, but it does involve a bad CGI effect. You've been warned.
So, Faith goes to this private school for young teenage girls (where part of their school uniform is a tight black skirt with black stockings... Yup, written by a guy. Also, naked shower scene!), and her new field hockey coach happens to head a local witches coven. Her Dad's health has taken a turn for the worst, and only has a few months to live. This entire premise grows even more suspicious when you spot his doctor (literally just standing around) beneath the cherry tree with the coven. What's a girl to do? Tell me if you've heard this before: She agrees to a pact with Field Hockey Witch to save her father, in exchange for a baby. Oh jeez, what could possibly go wrong? Yes, this story's biggest sin is an incredibly tired premise.
I hope you like scenes of large, poisonous centipedes burrowing into skin, as well as crawling in and out of varius orifices. Wow, is this movie packed with them. SPOILERS: Er, Faith wants to save her 6-week Satan baby, so she travels down through the tunnels that lead to the coven's hideout, guided by her charred Dad, from beyond the grave, somehow. Only, she's too late, but she takes the dead baby anyway. Somehow... Some way... She defeats the head witch (I need a head scratching gif here).
Ok, at the very end, she denies she's a witch. Yet she was able to perform the witch's re-animation ritual (head scratch). And the denial wasn't done to avoid scaring the kids! I literally LOL-ed at the very end. I won't spoil it, but it does involve a bad CGI effect. You've been warned.