I saw movie and wanted to watch it. Then I saw it's fan made and I decided I won't watch it. Later I saw trailer and said let's give it a try. Now I'm disappointed. The movie is ok regarding the quality of the image. But there is this really bad synchronization of audio and image so the actors look like they are synchronized form some other language. There's lack of matching tone of voice with the face expression and sooo many tiny mistakes in the movie. The whole story makes no sense to me. Most of the movie is one boring scene with talking. I have seen movies that use one scene trough the whole movie that are more interesting to watch. It's really nice try of a fan movie, but the quality of the story is closer to the Police Academy than to Harry Potter. And even Harry Potter is no brainer. So I would't recommend it. But still, good job on effects. They are decent.

I'm a Potterhead myself, one of those who wrote in newsgroups (when newsgrups did still exist) trying to figure out with other fans what the next book could be (in the era of BOOKS, not movies yet). Said that, I've also seen the movies. All of them. A comparison with this one would be highly unfair, as the "official" movies are professional products. This one should be, in my humble opinion, seen like a fan story. But despite its short lenght (less than an hour) and the poorness of the sets (all the movie is filmed inside), I saw this Voldemort: Origins of the Heir with pleasure. I gave 8 to this movie. Yes, actors are dubbed but revoicers are English speakers (their names can be read in credits) and no one would have liked someone talking English with Italian accent. So this is a plus, not a con. Yes, there are characters not canonic, but this is for the sake of the plot. Costumes are great. Lights are good. Directing might not be so great, but good enough. To sum it up, my opinion is highly positive.

These so called 'fans' obviously did not read any of the books. Nothing of Tom's character corralates with any of the info from the books nor is his he represented nicely. Same about the diary, it was never burried anywhere near in Russia.. idk what kind of fan fiction this is supposed to be, but defs not a movie made by fans. Don't watch this!

Im putting this into a "Fan Film" genre, just to have my rating make sense. If this was done by professionals, 2/10. Horrible Storyline, which could be done better even with an extremely low budget. Since it is NOT, easily 8/10. The Actor of Tom was great tho, I could see him play in a Professional made Movie for sure.