Lord of Tears (2013).

As a kid stories of the Mothman/Owlman fascinated me so I really tried to love this Kickstarter funded low budget (locally made) horror film.

The idea is sound.
The location atmospheric, the photography very good.
The 'owl man' and the some of the effects make up were very good too.
The soundtrack was slick if sometimes misused.

Sadly the acting and some of the editing lets this film down. I know that the actors weren't very experienced and there is nothing wrong with that but perhaps the scenes where they have to deliver dialogue should have been handled by a stage director as they feel very clunky. The director has flare when it comes to establishing atmosphere and the nightmarish imagery is really great but the a lot of the exposition scenes felt like padding. The main character spends much of the time carrying a dictaphone and reporting events that we have just seen Ric style.

If someone were to rework the film into something more akin to the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas it would be a huge success. Indeed if I were an executive of BBC Scotland I would approach Lawrie Brewster with a proposal to rework the film with perhaps some more established acting talent.

The packaging was lovely though (wrapped in black tissue with a real owl feather) and the soundtrack and a glossy booklet but the disc was badly authored and I couldn't get into some of the extras.

This was much better than the actual film.