Review: Lechuza (2025)
By William Pattison
This time we got an old fairy tale adapted for modern times…
On the way to a camping trip, a family tries to help an old
lady lying in the middle of the road. She turns out to be a witch and casts the
curse of the Lechuza upon them. Later that night, she transforms into a winged
demon who terrorizes the family.
Nvr in a while I run into some micro budget horror films.
These films are usually done on budgets between $10,000 to $100,000 and are
shot in as little as four days. This films are shot with cheap cameras or even
on occasion phones with more than likely the phone’s microphone as the only
audio. The filmmakers of these film have to use a lot of imagination to tell
their stories. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. They are never really
great, but a small portion of these are watchable. This one is watchable. It
takes the Hansel and Grettle trope and puts it in modern times and has the
witch terrorizing a nice Latin family. The witch design is ok. It consists
of scary mask covered by a black veil. I
wish they would have made up the witch’s arms and finger nails because it look obvious
it was a younger woman . The hands were too soft and manicured to be a witch’s.
It was way too Spirit Halloween bargain barrel to be taken seriously.
I recommend you watch this film after having a large amount of alcohol and a couple doobies for good measure. Then it will be a party…
