Funny one. Teenager in Salem, MA finds a cursed knife and a demon leaps from friend to friend killing people, for some reason or other having to do with a curse from colonial times. This isn’t even a teen scream, more like a pre-teen scream. It’s like I imagine the “Goosebumps” movies are like (there are “Goosebumps” movies, right? I think so.) It’s absolutely made for adolescents. But: it’s actually kind of scary. It’s just directed really well. So: definitely a movie for junior high students. But weirdly scary for one. Kind of reminds me of some of those early 70s tv horror movies like “Bad Ronald” or “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark”, which weren’t necessarily the best movies, or even the best horror movies, but they managed to ramp up the disturbing imagery to where they were kind of strangely memorable. This isn’t quite that good even, but it’s in that direction. (Not to be confused with the execrable “Funny Games”.)
