6.4 /10 1 Votes6.4
99% Rotten Tomatoes Edited by Autumn Lisa Mason Director Jeremy Berg Film series Invoking series | 2.9/10 IMDb Directed by Jeremy Berg Initial release 16 March 2013 Story by Jeremy Berg Distributed by Image Entertainment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay by Jeremy BergJohn Portanova Starring Trin MillerBrandon AnthonyAndi NorrisJosh TruaxD'Angelo Midili Productioncompany Ruthless PicturesOctober People Release date March 16, 2013 (2013-03-16) (SVFF) Produced by John Portanova, Jeremy Berg Similar Entrance, Rosewood Lane, House at the End of the Street, House of Good and Evil, Frozen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Invoking, also known as Sader Ridge, is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremy Berg. It stars Trin Miller, Brandon Anthony, Andi Norris, Josh Truax, and D'Angelo Midili. After premiering at the Sun Valley Film Festival in March 2013, Image Entertainment released it on DVD in the US in February 2014.
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The invoking official trailer
Plot
After she inherits a house in California from her estranged family, Samantha and several of her friends leave to visit it. There, they experiences horrific visions and begin to go insane.
Cast
Release
The Invoking premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in March 2013. Image Entertainment released it on DVD in the US on February 18, 2014, and in the UK on May 12, 2014.
Reception
Paul Mount of Starburst rated it 5/10 stars and criticized the renaming of the film to what he said indicated a traditional horror film. Instead, he called it "an interesting idea and a decent character study" that works off of horror cliches, though it is flawed. Chris Alexander of Fangoria rated it 4/5 stars and called it a "slow, scary, ambiguous descent into the darkest part of the human psyche". Mark L. Miller of Ain't It Cool News wrote the film is slow-paced – perhaps too slow for some viewers – but pays off at the end. Patrick Cooper of Bloody Disgusting rated it 2.5/5 stars and wrote that the film is suspenseful and lacks cliches, but the acting outside of Midili and Miller is too raw. Ben Bussey of Brutal as Hell called it a "painfully dry and full" film in which nothing interesting happens during the entire runtime.