Beezel is a horror flick with a very strong start. So strong, I marvel at how it all goes wrong.

The flick is about an average house and the infestation of witch it has in the basement. It follows various peoples over sixty years as they move in or otherwise inhabit the house, running into the evil witch in various ways.

Its episodic format makes it feel like an anthology horror but only in that we keep swapping out humans. The nature of the creature in the basement never changes so we’re often ahead of the characters as they stumble over the evil. It gets a little old watching one group after another fall to the witchy basement.

But the opening fifteen minute segment where there is still mystery is pretty great. I kept waiting for the film to circle back to something half as interesting or creepy. It does not.

Beezel tries hard and has a good witch makeup (hey, you can just a book by its cover). But it should have either been a single short segment in an actual anthology horror or it needed to be turned into a more standard structure where we uncover the mystery over the course of the whole film.

Score: 71