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Georgia Lock (Amber) Sydney Craven (Kirsten) Rose Quentin (Jessica) Adwoa Akoto (Alanda) Vivien Mills (Emily) Sophie Bloor (Charlotte) Sasha Clarke (Kate) Kirsty Anne Shaw (Flora) Finbar Lynch (Matthias) Syreeta Kumar (Dean Rathbone)

Liza Bolton

Amber Gray catches the attention of an elite group of students during her first semester at university. During the initiation, Amber and the York Witches' Society unintentionally awaken an ancient evil that has been waiting to finish the job it started centuries earlier.

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York witches society.

2022 Directed by Liza Bolton

After initiation into The York Witches Society, Amber Gray and her new friends unwittingly awaken an ancient evil hellbent on destroying the Gray bloodline. As the witch hunt begins, the young women realize they may not make it through the night.

Georgia Lock Sophie Bloor Sydney Craven Adwoa Akoto Tina Louise Owens Rachel Warren Finbar Lynch Colin Bennett Louise Bangay

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Liza Bolton

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Philippe Martinez Brian Marchetti Liza Bolton

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Theatrical limited, 26 aug 2022, releases by country.

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Review by joshrowley ★★

Familiar; head-scratching; short; tame; TV-ish; unsatisfying.

Review by Joel Hilke ★ 2

Rented this one hoping for some gold old fashioned craft-iness mixed with sorority secret society scares. I guess it's got a tiny bit of those things but mainly its got no budget and no particularly artistic eye with the budget it does have. It's just flat and mundane.

The flick is about a girl who attends college and is forced to join the "York Witches Society" by the dean, as is so likely to happen. And before you can wave your magic wand, she accidentally summons an evil spirit who harasses them and the guy running the low budget fog machine.

No point in bagging on the movie too much. It is what it is and achieves nothing more. Maybe they were earnestly trying, but it mostly doesn't work, isn't remotely scary, nor does it show a modicum of creativity.

Review by Dr_Nostromo ★★½

"Is that all you have to offer? You dispense the gruesome details of the past like it's a shopping list reeling off the blood and guts of the darkest time of our history and all you have to bring us is tired jokes."

The direct descendant of a real witch attracts the attention of a college witch society ...and a 500 year old witch hunter. This is a low budget affair with a simple story where a vast majority of any semblance of action or scares takes place in the fog in the dark ..thereby saving a ton of money is spec fx and sets. However, the amateur actors showed a genuinely earnest and serious effort to do the best they could with what they had making them normal, intelligent people with honest reactions that kept me interested. Not a good film but not that bad. It was ok.

Review by conico ★

York Witches Society was not the movie I was expecting it to be.

The plot was flimsy and the witches weren't very witchy. The spooky parts took place in a dark and empty studio room illuminated by a single dim light on the character in the scene and a lot of fog. There was so much fog in this movie that I'm fairly certain that 50% of the budget must have gone to the fog machines. I suppose this could count as a slasher, but the kills were scarier in Harry Potter and the TV show Charmed .

York Witches Society was a spooky season let down.

Review by taoknitter ★

I really wanted this to be good. The actresses were earnest and probably not really bad, but the directing sucked. The editing was bad and too slow, and nothing new or original happened. Don’t bother. It’s not even campy enough to be entertaining.

Review by leilaaUwU ★★★

its like dead by daylight but with hot girls

Review by Rose Gold ½

The kind of movie that has so much promise, then disappointments you as time slithers on. a small reference to Charmed, and that’s about the only highlight of this whole movie. House of Anubis is better then this….

Review by Jony 🔪 ★★

serio tenho que parar de ver coisas assim só pq envolve bruxas, unica coisa interessante aqui foi o pouco de elemento de terror que colocaram o resto tudo preguiçoso e nada original

Review by travis wayne hurt

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

1 of the ladies in this movie goes to college with 2 3 ring binders labeled WITCHCRAFT 1 and WITCHRAFT 2 & then some witches let her try to become a real witch.

They say the title of the movie less than 10 minutes into it.

I do like that a lot of it just takes place in a black room with fog added to make it look like they are running around outside. Nice thing to do when you have no money. Makes it feel like a play really.

Review by Pgg8 ★½

Tan mala que no sé qué decir

Review by Xander Kane ★★★

Often riding the line between made for TV BBC flick but gets a little edgier than that. Entertaining throughout though. Enjoyable watch.

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Amber Gray is a freshman about to embark on her new university life. But being a direct descendant of an English witch, the last known one, her ancestry's powers lies within her. Such powers remained unknown to her until they started manifesting. Soon, the elite students in The York Witches' Society recruit her to be one of their own. During her initiation, they accidentally bring to life an old nemesis of Amber's clan, whom they must now battle.

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York Witches Society

Amber Gray (Georgia Lock), a descendant of the Last Witch of England, heads into her first year of college unknowingly carrying with her the power of her ancestors. As her magical abilities slowly emerge, she becomes immersed in the school’s elite group, The York Witches Society. During her initiation into the “coven,” Amber unwittingly awakens an ancient evil that is hellbent on destroying the Gray bloodline. This sinister evil begins a literal witch hunt to finish the job it started centuries earlier, and the young women soon realize they may not survive their first year of university, let alone make it through the night.

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York Witches Society

2022, r, 88 min. directed by liza bolton. starring georgia lock, rachel warren, sydney craven, finbar lynch, sophie bloor..

Not reviewed at press time. Evil hunts a coven of upper-class British witches.

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York Witches Society , Liza Bolton , Georgia Lock , Rachel Warren , Sydney Craven , Finbar Lynch , Sophie Bloor

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