Reviews for The Devil of New Haven

[HAYDS510]

Good job

good movie.
the sound quality was good and the drawings were great, music was suspensfull, characters good. i think you did really well with this.. though..
the first part of the movie, the building up suspense seemed the major part of it..
once they got to this creepy farm, it was all over shortly which was disappointing..
the killings and all happend way too fast.. i would of liked to of seen them explore the farm place.. maybe even go in the dudes house and find some old photos or something bizaare creepy stuff that might of hinted to how the farmer got posessed, or why he was isolated or like an ex wife that they discovered he killed.. stuff on the walls from the old days just to give it an eerie vibe.. then they go outside to find one of them disapeard, they look for him to find him mangled or hear a cry somewhere, they find a hidey spot to look over an open area where they see the scarecrow kill their friend, they run and another gets killed EVENTUALLY .. like maybe 30 seconds to a minute or two after.. just in eerie ways. i think thats the kind of stuff it lacked .. but good job still.

Marsume responds:

Inside the house and such, thats an amazing idea. Really! If I had time before the deadline, I would have totally added something like that, it would have added alot to the movie!

Thanks for the awesome review

[BlazeHedgehog]

Decent!

Pacing could be better. You didn't really build any sufficient tension with the scarecrow or anything like that. The story told by the grandfather was probably the spookiest part. You should also work on your facial expressions - regardless of whether these guys are happy, afraid, or whatever, they all have the same vacant expression - save for the grandfather. The scarecrow's voice was also a bit silly.

Everything else was great, though. Your use of color and the palettes on offer here are very strong, and I thought the locales used were pretty cool and very iconic with Halloween.

[MattiusKay]

Hmm.

Animation was good, audio was alright.
Sorry to say but story line could have used a bit of work, wasn't horrible, but wasn't really great.
Nice attempt at a scary story. :)

[Pixmintro]

Hrm

The visual quality of the movie was very well done, but when actual animation started, I was very disappointed to see very little redrawing for the animation, basically just tween up down up down. There kind of wasn't any animation aside from lip syncing and a few isolated scenes. And the fact that you pretty much only show the characters at a chest-up profile shot makes it seem really repetitive in the terms of staging. Otherwise, the sound quality was good, though the grand father's voice wasn't very dynamic. Also the story was decent, a liiitle cliche but otherwise fine.

[alex-likes-swords]

good

but you had to make it longer