The Red Book Ritual evolves around three young people. One night in a house supposedly belonging to the missing witch, they play a game asking questions to the ancient book with red covers which has been in the house since forever. They open the book and read sentences from it like answers to their questions. They get scared and ask the book how do they get out of the game. The book’s answer is read me! So, they start to read the stories from the book as segments of this anthology horror movie. For starters, I must say that even main storyline in this anthology, or the binding story premise is stupid and three main characters are so lame and thrashy that you can’t really build your sympathy for neither of them. The four-five segments or stories in this anthology are done poorly and although they build up in me some interest and some scary moments these are so few and far between. I must say that the Asian horror segment is most interesting to me, I wondered all the time whether it is so poorly synchronized with characters’ voices purposefully or is it just thrash like other things in this movie. This one doesn’t last long, hour and twenty minutes but sometimes feels like a drag and some of the segments are just not ended or looks like they have not been written until the end. The ending is like the movie as a whole, confusing, done in a hurry, for what is worse made in a thought that it is cool and it is super, but this one is under the radar for us horror fans. One of the not so good that came out in recent times.

Gore effects: 3/10 axes – there are couple of full frontal nudity scenes and couple of bloody and carnage scenes, but in all very poor.

Acting: 2/10 axes – all of the actors are unknown and no one stands out from thrashy over acting or under acting. Just plain bad.

Conclusion: 3/10 axes – I will give this one three out of ten, simply because I love horror and I love horror anthology subgenre, but this is one of the lousy ones. Rather spend hour and twenty watching or doing something else. Go get better movie or a great horror book.