I hope everyone had a fun and happy Halloween. It's been a rough year for me, on balance, so I kept it simple. Just kicked back for the evening and watched a horror movie with my sugar dumpling, Tyler. As far as horror films go, he's not the biggest fan so I wanted to skew a little lighter, more comedic. You have to ease them into these things. I had read about this a couple of years ago on Ain't It Cool News' recurring feature of reviewing 31 of the best horror films each year but it hadn't made it onto my queue just yet. (I think it was in the high 700s).Yes, there is a spreadsheet.
Shut up.
Ava (Louisa Krause) awakens to find herself surrounded by her family and a priest (John Ventimiglia), who kindly informs her that she has just been exorcised. Her lawyer (Dan Fogler) advises her that there are a lot of people pressing charges for her demonic escapades and that her best bet to avoid jail time is to attend Spirit Possessed Anonymous. She is told to track down and make amends to everyone she hurt during her possession, but this sets her on the course of a deeper mystery.
This has some plot problems, especially the ending, and it's pretty low-budget for effects but it's extremely entertaining. The parallels between possession and addiction are explored in a tongue-in-cheek way and the whole film feels like a breezy, good-time romp through your local cemetery.
No one else does that?
Moving on.
It's on Netflix and you should take a look if you like your horror movies to be more comedy than gore.
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