Directed by:
Justin G. DyckScreenplay:
Keith CooperComposer:
John McCarthyCast:
Sheila McCarthy, Julian Richings, Konstantina Mantelos, Josh Cruddas, Scott Cavalheiro, Troy James, Kaitlyn Leeb, Lanette Ware, Rebecca Lamarche (more)VOD (1)
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Every one of us has someone for whom they would do anything, move Heaven and Earth, to see again. For Audrey and Henry Walsh (Canadian genre-film royalty Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings) it's their two-year-old grandson Jackson, who was taken from them in a car accident that also took their beloved daughter. The tenets of their religion tell them that their daughter has moved on, but that that, due to his youth, it's possible to revive Jackson, providing a suitable host can be found. And the Walshes are in an excellent position to find one: Henry is an obstetrician, and his day job brings Becker (Konstantina Mantelos) their way, an soon-to-be single mother who is unsure of her very unexpected pregnancy. With the perfect candidate in place, the stars aligned and their house sound and escape-proofed, the Walshes’ plans to bring Jackson back are all set. What could go wrong? It turns out their lord and master has more than a few surprises in store for this pair of Canadian Satanists. (Fantasia International Film Festival)
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A pleasant surprise. I was expecting a more-or-less daft horror movie, the actual horror consisting in an abominable load of boredom, so I was surprisingly entertained by the conspiratorial activities of the operatives of the local satanic cell.
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This highly praised and so far overlooked horror film is ultimately a pleasant surprise, it can definitely be classified among the better ones. The story focuses on an older couple of Satanists who kidnap a pregnant woman and attempt to place the spirit of their dead grandson into the unborn child using a witchcraft book, but they accidentally summon more spirits than they intended. The film has a slower pace, there are no jump-scares, but the atmosphere is excellent, the apparitions are very nasty (the scene where a ghost pulls out its teeth with dental floss was perfect), and I also liked the twisted black man with a burlap bag on his face. I praise the make-up effects and the unexpectedly decent number of corpses, something I always welcome in the realm of ghost stories for me. Story***, Action>No, Humor>No, Violence***, Entertainment****, Music***, Visuals****, Atmosphere****, Tension***. 7/10.
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I was very happy to see after quite some time a rookie director who basically at home managed to put together such a good, little cheap horror movie, but then I looked him up in Filmbooster and I was flabbergasted. Justin G. Dyck is an experienced Canadian specialist on romantic and Christmas TV movies and now he comes out with this? Not that I’m complaining, we are getting a lot of value for money! Very well acted characters a sensibly written script and, what’s more important, very effective scary scenes. The quality of those demonic manifestations swings between decent and brilliant, and some of them could even appear in more expensive movies.
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