Ciaran the Demon Hunter

When I rented this, I was expecting a horror / fantasy film. Well it really isn't. This is a Art-house film that has horror and fantasy elements, at least that's the best way for me to describe it. Possibly more of a chick film than for men. I noticed how all of the female characters are in love with Ciaran. The story is interesting and maybe more European in design since you have to think about the scenes, where American's need everything dumbed down to follow anything today. There's metaphorical scenes such as a floating rose in water with it's dark shadow lurking below... good stuff! This made me really pay attention to each scene and what meaning was being conveyed. It was very unpredictable and I gave it another star for that, I had no idea where it was going and it held my attention completely. The strong music score really helped. The film didn't feel low budget except for some of the film noise in dark scenes, not too bad. I felt the cast (British and American) was very solid. The lead Peter Morton and "Willow" Joanna Wood really shined. I won't mention the VFX's used but they were good, I felt the film could have had more VFX, it was a bit short in length, but all in all for a low budget production it get's 8 stars from me.