Plot Summary
After a group of friends goes to a Christian rock concert, they return to their hotel and experience some creepy goings-on, thus they decide to abandon their trip early and return home. However, even when she returns home, one them feels herself being stalked by an unknown entity. Elsewhere, a new mother of a baby feels herself being watched by someone, but she can’t put her finger on it. Will any of them be able to trust in God to overcome the evil?
Production Quality (-2 points)
So you want to make a Christian horror movie, huh? How about you examine the ones already made (like this one) and do everything the opposite way of how they did it. The production of each of these Pray movies couldn’t be worse. From dizzying camera zooms to weird camera angles to generally shaky footage, it’s a harrowing experience for all the wrong reasons. Video quality is mostly poor and lighting is very inconsistent. The soundtrack is far too loud and the audio is better at picking up the background sounds than the actual dialogue. Sets and locations are severely limited and there is no editing whatsoever to speak of. In the end, this production is definitely among the worst.
Plot and Storyline Quality (-1 points)
A ‘Dove-Approved’ ‘Horror’ film can’t actually exist, right? This means anything ‘horror-like’ has been stripped from it, thus we are left with activities of daily living, local news sequences, television preaching sequences, and most laughable jump scares rivaled only by other films made by these people and the new Left Behind. There is barely enough dialogue in this film, and what dialogue exists is mostly confusing crosstalk conversations. With so many sequences of ‘regular life’, there is not enough real suspense. Any suspense therein is bizarre and manufactured. Finally, the ending of this film is one of the most laughable and head-scratching experiences ever. We let asking whether or not it can get any worse than this.
Acting Quality (-1 points)
As if the rest of the movie wasn’t bad enough, let’s add an extremely amateur and awkward cast to this mess. The performances therein are goofy and unsure. There is far too much yelling and screaming. It’s so sad that this many people were roped into this nonsense.
Conclusion
The Christian horror genre is among the worst of Christian film, and this should not be. It’s inexcusable to have so many basement-dwelling films in one genre, especially when this genre offers such a great opportunity to reach outside the walls of the church. Yet it’s a very difficult genre to pull off, so it would be better to not even attempt it unless you absolutely know what you’re doing. But wait…there’s two MORE of these films?!?
Final Rating: -4 out of 10 points
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