Widow’s Point (2019) Review

Widow’s Point (2019) Review

WIDOW’S POINT follows a writer, Thomas Livingstone (Craig Sheffer), who spends a weekend locked in a haunted lighthouse to help promote his next book, where he is targeted by supernatural forces.

Director Gregory Lamberson’s WIDOW’S POINT arrives laden with awards from showings at recent film festivals and for the first hour it’s not difficult to see why. For the most part this adaptation of the source novel of the same name, adapted by the book’s authors Richard and Billy Chizmar, is a fun watch. Packed with spooky flashbacks, effectively narrated by a growling Sheffer, and stock ‘boo’ moments WIDOW’S POINT was shaping up to be an unexpected delight.

In the film’s final half-hour all of the good work that preceded it becomes undone by a needlessly protracted segment that sees Livingstone taking far too long to fathom out what we sussed out in seconds. Quite why this character reveal had to go on and on and on I don’t know, up until then WIDOW’S POINT would have received a higher score. It’s such a shame that the writers didn’t have the confidence to know when to end their story and more importantly, when.

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