Jakob's Wife
Directed by Travis Stevens
Anne is married to a small-town minister and feels like her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past 30 years. After a chance encounter with “The Master,” she discovers bite marks on her neck, a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than ever. As Anne is increasingly torn between her enticing new existence and her life before, the body count grows and Jakob realizes he will have to fight for the wife he took for granted. A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE.
After an encounter with “The Master,” Anne discovers bite marks on her neck, a new sense of power and an appetite to live bolder than ever before.
Cast: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Nyisha Bell, Mark Kelly
Member Reviews
One extra skull for how cleverly the reverend’s vintage Mercury – not angelic white, not black, but inbetween-beige – personifies the story’s opposing ideas.
Just very boring. Not much of a horror comedy, as its not funny or scary. just bland
I'm fresh off my first watch of this movie, and holy steaming vampire blood, I can't remember the last time a movie was more different than what I expected. I don't know why, but the title and description made me think it was going to be a more traditional sort of old story like The Witch, but it is anything but that. There were quite a few times that I felt vibes like Army of Darkness and other classic horror comedies that don’t shy away from the gore -and also have fun indulging in the occult and religious themes. The movie knows exactly what it is and knows how silly a lot of the tropes surrounding the subject matter are, and it plays with them to great effect for both drama, scares, and comedy. It's a difficult balance to strike in a lot of ways, so that the horror doesn't overshadow the comedy, and the drama doesn't spoil either of them either. The effects were fantastic and there were a lot of visual concepts that I personally hadn’t seen in any movie. The acting is great all around, the characters are iconic, and there were some moments that genuinely had me laughing and asking “what the hell just happened?” Oh also there’s actual like genuine human emotion and character growth with some satisfying conclusions. The one complaint I have is that a few times, the music/scare ambiance was too high-pitched for my liking, it went past disturbing and off-putting into straight-up painful. But honestly, it was like less than five times through the whole movie, so with that as my only real complaint, I can’t justify any rating other than 5/5
I wasn't impressed the first time i watched this, i just rewatched it and really enjoyed it. Very fun movie
Overall a good story and film. Wish there was more gore