An 18
year old named Gail Bowers (Erica Roby)
lives with her sister Anne (Noel Thurman)
who is a practicing Christian and brother
in law Clark (Griff Furst) after the
death of her parents and then move into a
new house.
However
while Gail is sleeping she senses someone
is controlling her and then starts to
sleepwalk.
Then the next day, she is introduced to
her new neighbor named Francine (Rebekah
Kochan) as the two of them toy around
with a Ouija board since Gail tries to
summon up her parents. The board moves by
itself and a lightbulb burns out.
Suddenly,
over the next days Gail's behavior
becomes unusually nasty and bitter.
She also starts to have a sleazy attitude
that she is taken to see a psychiatrist
named Richard Thornhill (David Shick) who
notices that Gail's behavior is more than
just strange and suggests to both Clark
and Anne that an exorcism is necessary
but Clark refuses at first as he doesn't
believe in God or the Devil.
Eventually, Clark accepts after seeing a
nearly suicidal attempt with Gail and are
introduced to a preacher named Father
Fletcher (Dean N. Arevalo) who is legally
blind after trying to exorcise a child
who died from his exorcism.
But then, death's suddenly start to occur
with preachers helping him while
performing Gail's exorcism.
At first I didn't
know what to expect when I first watched
this. This was supposedly the true story
that inspired the film The
Exorcist but however it takes
place present day and is very fabricated
by the looks of it. However, I enjoyed
it.
It was an indepdendent film on a Z grade
budget and it seemed like it was
uninvested or it was invested with very
little cash but the makers really pulled
the story together making the film very
watchable.
The acting was
very well performed for the budget this
flick had. Erica Roby was
marvellous with her character making her
actions change each time and making it
fairly believeable.
David Shick plays a good
psychiatrist with his seriousness towards
Erica's character.
I especially enjoyed Dean N. Arvelo's
role as the blind minister trying to
exorcise Erica's character.
Erica and Noel perform
well as sisters with their dialogue
together as I wouldn't cast anyone else
for their parts.
Rebekah's
character takes off her top while she
tries to take a shower to wash off her
blood and her breasts are fully exposed.
Noel's character unbuttons her
shirt during a sex scene and then it
shows Eric's character.
A crucifix is
stabbed through a woman's throat
Francine's face is being bloodied and cut
There's a nightmare sequence of Clark and
Anne being butchered
Scissors are stabbed in a psychiarist's
chest and blood splutrs out
A guy's head is crushed and there are
some more brief bloody moments too.
Leigh Slawner
brings this film to life with all his
work on it. He makes the
scenes very disturbing and effective for
it's ultra low budget.
I loved his dark scene shots with the
sleepwalking and nightmare segments and
brought out the emotions with the cast
well enough too.
Although Leigh is more of an
actor he still can do well as a writer
and director too like what he did with
this piece.
Eliza Swemson
lightly composed her music for the film
but for what the plot was about it seemed
to work well. Especially, with the light
singing in it for where it was nessecary
in the scenes.
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