| The Church | |
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| Directed by | Dom Frank |
| Written by | Dom Frank |
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| Cinematography | Tom Fanelle |
| Edited by | Ed Marx |
| Music by | Miles Bergsma |
Production company | Hard Floor Entertainment |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Church is an American horror film written and directed by Dom Frank. It stars Bill Moseley, Ashley C. Williams, Lisa Wilcox, Keith Stallwortch, and Clint Howard. [1] [2]
The church board and the development team come face to face with a supernatural presence when they agree to sell the church. [3]
Sherilyn Connelly [4] of SF Weekly wrote that film is "far from great, but it’s never boring, and that’s good enough for the faithful." In a mixed review for Los Angeles Times , Noel Murray [5] wrote "There’s an appealing, old-school crumminess to the supernatural thriller “The Church,” the kind of micro-budgeted bad movie that may exist only because the filmmaker had access to a location and wrote a story to accommodate it." Murray then criticized the acting, writing "Frank doesn’t really have the budget — or the cast — to make the horror elements in “The Church” effective. Most of the actors are inexperienced and stiff; whenever they’re supposed to be tormented by the paranormal, the special effects meant to illustrate the hauntings are either nonexistent or cheesy."
In a negative review for Variety , Dennis Harvey criticized the writing, direction, and special effects, stating that "Those limitations could conceivably lend a certain charm if the movie had energy, audacity, and a few good ideas — things present in such even-lower-budgeted Christian screen parables of damnation as Ron Ormond’s 1974 “The Burning Hell.” But Frank’s script is half-baked and his direction lethargic. Much of the highly clunky dialogue is beyond certain cast members’ abilities to smooth over." [6]
The film received a limited theatrical release in 30 theaters on October 5, 2018. [7]
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