Released by: Sector 5 Films
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Production Year: 2015
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 1:12:59
Audio: English PCM 2.0
Video: NTSC Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitles: None
THE FILM - [ 2 / 5 ]:
A troubled teen possesses a brilliant mind but a sincere disdain for humanity as she proclaims the number one problem on the planet is human overpopulation. With her mother recently deceased under mysterious circumstances, Mysti (Peri Jill Phillips) is estranged from the outside world and delves headlong into the world of the Occult. When her aunt Aurelia (Liz Nolan) decides to visit she is shocked to see that Mysti is brewing Ayahuasca, the Shamanic "vine of souls" and is crossing over into the "other world," a very dangerous endeavor often producing extreme consequences. But Aurelia is too late; Mysti has opened a portal into the Paranormal and unleashed an elemental force that has attached itself to her. Aurelia is no stranger to the Spirit World and they discover their shared heritage when Aurelia invokes an Ancient Witchcraft ritual in an attempt to expel the entity. The extreme demonic force taunts and tortures them both until finally emerging into this reality with its sole purpose being to consume those who brought it forth.
"Shadow World: The Haunting of Mysti Delane" was directed by Daniel Falicki (Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth) and stars Peri Jill Phillips and Liz Nolan.
I cannot say that I enjoyed the film. It started off interesting and featured some great cinematography at times. I particularly liked the early scenes of Mysti walking in the snow covered forest. However, the film itself was a bit boring in my opinion. Perhaps the plot was stretched a bit too thin. For the record, what I received to review was a DVD-R, so the quality of the audio and video may be better than what I was able to watch for this review if there was any compression involved in placing the film on a single-layer DVD-R.
The DVD features an English PCM 2.0 audio track. I thought the audio on the DVD sounded pretty good. It won't give you a wow factor but it does a good job with what it has to work with. The dialogue was easy to hear and understand and the sound effects sounded fine. The sound level was balanced well throughout as well.
"Shadow World: The Haunting of Mysti Delane" comes to DVD via Sector 5 Films.The film is presented in NTSC anamorphic widescreen. The video quality of this DVD varies. In some scenes the image looks quite good and in others, just passable. It seems that a filter was used to try and give the film an aged, film-like appearance with light scratches appearing on occasion. There are some noticeable issues in the way of digital artifacts. Colors are fairly well represented for the most part and really pop in brighter scenes. The same applies for the amount of detail present in the film.
There were no special features included on this DVD.
IN CONCLUSION:
Unfortunately I did not enjoy the film. The DVD-R I received to review had somewhat average audio and video quality. I personally wouldn't recommend this film but thankfully we all have different tastes.
OVERALL: [ 2 / 5 ]