In Its Wake: Review

13th August 2023

Father Kurdt Waidmann (Elvis Stojko) has seen things that would scare any mere mortal. Treading the path between the living and the dead, the dark and the light is an everyday occurrence for him. Then one day a demon is unleashed and Father Waidmann sees it as his duty to bring an end to its reign of terror.

Some years later and Father Waidmann is still on the hunt and it brings him to where a group of people are just trying to find their way home in the snow. Manny (Kenneth Bemister) and Laura (Jaqueline Godbout) are a loving couple just looking for a way to get out of the cold.

Meanwhile, Tim (Aaron Heels) and Amy (Paige Foskett) are looking to get what they need to get done and to get out of there. However, the weather seems to derail them and they all find themselves in the same place. Easy prey for the demon that lays in wait.

In its Wake is a horror movie directed by Lee Foster and co-written by Angela Cavallin and Ryan Kobold. A throwback to perhaps a more broadly generic horror movie, In its Wake puts all of its players in place and waits for the carnage to ensue. However, whilst some of this works it feels that in other places the characters are not so fleshed out.

This means that while the movie seems to want to focus more on its group of attractive twenty somethings, this leads to other characters being little other than fodder. For example, there are a few businessmen who are similarly trapped and Father Waidmann’s companion also serves to pad out the time.

Having little else to go on other than what they are doing there, the audience may not care and know where their story is going.

A final act plays out well as there are a couple of twists leading up to this point. The main group of characters are well thought out and play well off each other too, it just might have helped if the demon was kept out of sight to maintain the mystery of its true form.

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