It’s enough to make Winnie wish she had never been born, and through a magical twist of fate she gets her request. Except she realizes the killer would keep on killing without her there to stop him. Even worse? Her bucolic small town curdled in her absence.

Now, she has to stop the killer (again) and figure out a way to reverse the spell that erased her existence.

The concept works, on paper, and it’s an original way to spin something sinister from Capra’s blueprint. It’s the execution that’s an unholy mess.

[I have no problem with the concept of riffing off of a classic, but only if it’s well-executed riffing. If you can’t be bothered to make a good effort at it, don’t do it in the first place. — Ed]