An intriguing if somewhat flawed genre effort

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Naomi Mechem-Miller doing beauty makeup on Allycea Weil for Conjuring the Cult

Neil Green

Elissa Dowling

Chynna Rae Shurts

Calvin Morie McCarthy

After finding his daughter&apos;s bloodied body, David joins a support group, but a cult offers to resurrect her. His choices will determine not only his fate but his daughter&apos;s soul.

Conjuring the Cult

Conjuring boredom...

With the 2024 movie &quot;Conjuring the Cult&quot; being a horror movie that I had neither seen nor heard about, of course I opted to watch it, as I had the opportunity to do so here in 2025. I found the movie&apos;s cover to be alluringly interesting, and sat down to watch the movie with an open mind accessible to impressions, as I virtually didn&apos;t know what I was getting into here.

Writer and director Calvin Morie McCarthy put together a rather slow paced narrative. It was a storyline that sort of tried relying on atmosphere and slowly building up tension, but it sort of was too sluggishly paced to be really effective. At one hour into the 93 minute runtime nothing thrilling or particularly entertaining had happened, and I have to admit that my attention was drifting to other things than the movie.

I wasn&apos;t familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, aside from Neil Green and Elissa Dowling, which is actually something that worked in favor of the movie. Yeah, I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen whenever I sit down to watch a movie. And I will say that the acting performances in &quot;Conjuring the Cult&quot; were adequate.

&quot;Conjuring the Cult&quot; was a swing and a miss of a movie. The narrative was simply too slow paced and uneventful to provide much of any entertainment value.

It should be noted, however, that the production was good, but it didn&apos;t count for much as the narrative was killing the viewing experience.

This is definitely not a movie that will grace my screen a second time, as it was quite the struggle to sit through it the first time around. Neither is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to seek out.

My rating of writer and director Calvin Morie McCarthy&apos;s 2024 attempt at a horror movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

After discovering his blood-soaked daughter dead in the bathtub, David Bryson attends a self-help group to help save him from his ghostly nightmares. But when a group of mysterious cult-like women offer to help him resurrect his daughter. David&apos;s choices will not just decide his fate... but the fate of his dead daughter&apos;s SOUL.

Official Trailer

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With the 2024 movie "Conjuring the Cult" being a horror movie that I had neither seen nor heard about, of course I opted to watch it, as I had the opportunity to do so here in 2025. I found the movie's cover to be alluringly interesting, and sat down to watch the movie with an open mind accessible to impressions, as I virtually didn't know what I was getting into here.

Writer and director Calvin Morie McCarthy put together a rather slow paced narrative. It was a storyline that sort of tried relying on atmosphere and slowly building up tension, but it sort of was too sluggishly paced to be really effective. At one hour into the 93 minute runtime nothing thrilling or particularly entertaining had happened, and I have to admit that my attention was drifting to other things than the movie.

I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, aside from Neil Green and Elissa Dowling, which is actually something that worked in favor of the movie. Yeah, I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen whenever I sit down to watch a movie. And I will say that the acting performances in "Conjuring the Cult" were adequate.

"Conjuring the Cult" was a swing and a miss of a movie. The narrative was simply too slow paced and uneventful to provide much of any entertainment value.

It should be noted, however, that the production was good, but it didn't count for much as the narrative was killing the viewing experience.

This is definitely not a movie that will grace my screen a second time, as it was quite the struggle to sit through it the first time around. Neither is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to seek out.

My rating of writer and director Calvin Morie McCarthy's 2024 attempt at a horror movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

After finding his daughter's bloodied body, David joins a support group, but a cult offers to resurrect her. His choices will determine not only his fate but his daughter's soul.

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