It is at this point the logic falls starts to slip into disarray on par with a sloppy teenager’s bedroom. Mid hockey game, she finds out her father (Patrick Gibson) is dying of leukemia, and soon after Sissy chooses to show Faith she can bring back the dead. Simply, the movie is about Faith’s brush with a coven of cherry popping witches, led by her new field hockey coach, Sissy (Anna Walton).
The story revolves around the struggles of a high school teenage girl, who just so happens to be named Faith (Naomi Battrick). After watching the film, I was left wondering how director David Keating and writer Brenden McCarthy went wrong, especially after drawing me in with the first act of the movie. After watching the trailer, which I normally don’t do, my inner teenager was yearning to see what seemed to be a hybrid of The Craft and Rosemary’s Baby. So when I came across Cherry Tree and heard it was about witches, and distributed by Dark Sky Films, I was stoked.
Contemporary horror has brought crap when it comes to witches (see Dario Argento’s The Mother of Tears). Through the popularity of these supernatural beings, witches are usually shunned (along with the mummy see Bubba Ho-Tep). Sometimes these uncanny entities are moral and virtuous (see Bill Compton in True Blood) and sometimes they want to outright haunt the shit out of people (see Paranormal Activity). The supernatural genre has graced the big and small screen this millennium with a slew of vampires, zombies, aliens, and ghosts, among other entities that go bump in the night.
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