I am one of those guys who need
to gather all his guts to watch a Horror movie alone and usually I do it in
broad day light – at best – I close the curtains just to give it a little real
feel. As this was another based on a true story horror – how I could miss it. Unfortunately I will call it – at best – a good thriller nothing more than
that. It did give me some shocks and scared me little bit towards the ending
and final fight with the evil spirit etc but otherwise for a hardcore Horror
Buff – it will be a big disappointment. And for someone who has seen and loved
Exorcist – this will be a walk in the park and will make you laugh at times.
Totally predictable stuff – right from the very start you know where it is
going still the question remains “how” hence I had to see it. With Jeffrey Dean
Morgan in lead who I always confuse with Javier Bardem and Natasha Calis as Emily his possessed daughter – I seriously couldn't
skip it. If you like thrillers – do not miss this as it works like a good
thriller for sure.
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Natasha Calis "Possessed" |
The Movie: I don’t know why but
most of the horror movies start with almost the same premise – a broken family
in trouble which is bound to fall back in place by the time it all ends. Here
too the man in lead – Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a freshly divorced guy with two
daughters moving to their new house which is in middle of nowhere. As fate had
it – they stop for a sale and his daughter Emily picks up a weird looking box,
which she isn’t able to open anyways. This was the same box which we see at the
very start of the movie in the introduction as a old lady tries destroying it
and some kind of power ends up killing her in a brutal way while his son keeps
knocking on the door. The trouble starts with the arrival of the box – as soon
as she comes home with it – the neighboring house’s old lady who is heavily
bandaged – reacts big time looking at the box and the nurse shuts the curtains
giving you a tarrying feeling as something is wrong with the box. How she opens
the box and what all is inside – is something you’ve got to see on screen, its
totally spooky stuff and I was already getting Goosebumps by thinking what is
in store ahead for me in it. Life changes upside down as Emily gets possessed
by something weird which the audience couldn’t see but the way her behavior
changes is totally awesome. The way she eats a lot of stuff and still feels
hungry – is spooky as you know something is inside her body – with weird
moments of that inside creature on her face and body was something giving me
chills – big time with solid background score thrown in to scare you even
better.
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Natasha Calis |
One thing which bothers and makes
me smile all the time while watching a horror movie is – why don’t they turn on
the lights? Even this one is too dark and that works big time in its favor to
make a perfect horror cum thriller. Those stabbing, checking herself out on the
mirror and with a torch scenes are the ones that made me jump on my seat while
watching them. One moment you see a different Emily and the second you have
that innocent little girl who has no clue what happened to her previously. Next
when Jeffrey finds out about the box and tries to dispose it off without
telling Emily where he does that. It’s a fantastic scene leading the movie to
oncoming superb climax. Where Jeffrey finally seeks help and tries to settle it
all. There are so many scenes one after another that it totally keeps you
hooked to the movie to the very end. Like the one with their room full of moths
and Emily reaction as what happened? Where are they moving now? Jeffrey’s wife
reaction when she is told that he hit her whereas he didn’t – as it look like
that. Jeffrey in trouble asking help of a fellow professor – who himself was
surprised to see him. A scene where Emily’s step father almost finds out what’s
wrong with her but misses the action with a fraction of a second, what happens
next is totally rocking stuff. Emily in the MRI room and the image that we see
on the computer is another fantastic scene of the movie – with those flickering
lights adding to the horror. The best part of the movie is its ending – the
totally last half an hour is superb action and chilling at its best. As I said
earlier – it’s a must watch for all thriller cum horror fans – it doesn’t works
like a superb Horror for sure but nevertheless works like at least a damn good
thriller.
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