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Spook City - A Horror Movie Podcast
Pyewacket
Ep. 25
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Matt reviews 2017’s Pyewacket, and delves into whether the central premise is slightly OTT, the atmosphere, the immolations, and everything in between…
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- TALE OF THE TAPE
- Directed and written by Adam MacDonald
- Cinematography by Christian Bielz
- Score by Lee Malia
- CAST
- Nicole Muñoz as Leah Reyes, Laurie Holden as Mrs. Reyes, Chloe Rose as Janice, Eric Osborne as Aaron, Romeo Carere as Rob, James McGowan as Rowan Dove, Bianca Melchior as Pyewacket
- Distributed by Entertainment One
- Premiered on September 11th, 2017 at Toronto International Film Festival, and it was released theatrically in Canada on December 8th, 2017
- Runtime of 88 minutes
- RT Critic 83% // RT Audience 51% // Metacritic 56 // IMDb 5.8/10 // Letterboxd 2.9/5
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