It’s difficult to know what to make of this. The first few scenes made me think the production was a spoof, so incredible were the casting choices. Jen (Claudine-Helene Aumord) is visited by her resentful daughter Carla (Claire-Maria Fox), who looks exactly the same age. Father Rueben (Will Dodd) looks even younger, resplendent with a few grey flecks of hair and growling for all he’s worth to convince us of his ‘advanced’ years. It’s difficult to think of a worse start to a film.
Things improve slightly when the Tooth Fairy turns up, all distorted voice and Halloween mask. Suddenly, there’s a bit of gore and the tantalising idea of people suffering other peoples’ pain when having their teeth hammered out. In among the grubby soap-opera-level squabbles, the creature is revealed as a family curse, in a series of flashbacks spread throughout. All accompanied by the strains of a mournful piano.
This is an independent film, and I like independent films. And yet it suffers more than most with its limitations - it has no pace, and the acting varies from scene to scene. Even so, the location is beautiful and well-photographed and some moments are well directed. My score is 5 out of 10.
If it were possible to leave minus stars on these reviews this would be minus 5. This unfinished, amateurish quickie has all the flare and poise of a home video of a child's nativity play, filmed by a drunk. There is no reason to watch this sorry shambles of a horror unless, like me, you waste too much time searching the UK's homegrown film releases for a low-budget horror gem. Painful - and this isn't director Louisa Warren's first film either, she's got form. Also avoid Satanic Nun, Viking War and Curse of the Scarecrow - and there's about 10 more from this terrible director coming too. You're better off dead than watching this.