SPOOPYWEEN DAY 23 CONSECRATION!!!!

Day 23

Consecration

Well, when one religious horror film fails you. You turn to another.

Or at least this is what the fates have decided with a roll of the dice. And it sounds fun. Maybe. I hope so. We need it after the last one. Even if its horrible, I will be thankful if the people that made it tried.

Another film I know nothing about. I picked it because it was a recent release, it looked between possibly being interesting, and possibly being terrible photoshop Redbox art. So it can go either way.

So let us hope it works out in our favor. Because I’d really love discussing a film that works. Otherwise I’m watching fucking SAW 10.

Let us begin. Grab the popcorn and here’s to your fuck.

The Film

Always open your film with an old nun holding a revolver at some random woman! Always!

Man what kind of an opening, let alone film would that be? Nuns with guns blasting away babies and crack addicts getting stomped in the dick by hookers. So awesome.

Well that isn’t this film Though it would be super cool.

This is instead about a nice lady, living a nice life, with a nice job, in a nice apartment. Who ends up with a nun pointing a gun at her face. I don’t know why. I just know she doesn’t deserve it. How do I know? Because.

This redhead. Has a cat. Named Mr. Moon.

I know this likely means the cat may die. Which I will forever hate. But Mr. Moon is an awesome name, and an awesome cat.

Also the fact while our protagonist is working at her pc and suddenly the lights go out, the room start shaking and lights flicker about. Her first reaction is to call out to her cat? I love her, she knows Mr. Moon is not one to fuck around with when it comes time for treats and Fancy Feast.

Unfortunately for us, it is not her cat disturbing her. It appears to be a spiritual nun popping in and out of her life and apartment. This serves as a prelude to a phone call which sets off the films adventure. Grace got a call from far off in the land of Scotland. She has been called and notified that her brothers body was found at a nuns convent. A priest was found with his torso sliced open, and her brother was found nearby, apparently dead from a murder suicide.

Grace knows her brother would never murder someone, let alone kill himself.

So she has come to see about this, and help a detective with the investigation. Possibly.

We are already off to a good start. Her brother was beloved by the nuns, and god apparently. He was cool with religion and totes cool with The big G man upstairs. However his sister is not religious. She’s cool with her bro, and what he does. But she doesn’t need religion in her life.

She is met outside the convent by the mother superior. Who tries telling her how cool her brother was, until he “Fell to darkness” being possessed by a demon, which made him kill the priest and then himself for his sins. Grace debates slapping her with the inspectors pistol. But instead cackles and tells the mother superior, “My father used to tell me. The only meat a priest would eat on Friday, was Nun. HA! Gottem” she then dabs and walks off playing a John Cena intro theme sound bit.

Well she actually just told her to fuck off and that her bro bro would never self delete. But my version is more in line with her attitude.

We can tell this is going to be a great trip for everyone. The nuns were not happy seeing them arrive, but they were still cordial with them, and kind to Grace. Though when Grace parted company with the inspector, we see the nun was gripping her rosary cross tight enough to make herself bleed. Which I want to almost say is normal for nuns, some might say, it’s a habit.

I am not sorry for that one.

Well Grace didn’t come here to blast nuns with sick burns. She came here to identify her brothers body, and try to understand who dunnit and why they done did it.

When she is shown his body, she breaks down once left on her own. Its understandable given he looked oddly at piece, and fine. Aside from having his left eye completely purple and blown out. But tears are for the weak. In fact tears are just weakness leaving the body. I read that on a No Fear shirt. Once.

Once.

Well she’s done staring at his dead pretty face. It’s time to identify the body. So she whips the sheet off his corpse and stares at his junk.

Yup. It’s bro bro.

She see’s his ghost appear before her and give her an odd look as if to say ‘dude what the fuck?’ and she passes out.

OR

She moved the sheet aside to investigate his corpse for signs of sand and the beach where they said they’d found him, only to find his body clean. Being shocked into fainting when spotting his ghost behind her. Warning her to leave the island. That it isn’t safe and they WILL kill her.

This girl. Is going to do a lot of fainting I feel. Not because of having visions from beyond the grave, but. Well also that. And also having visions of what happened on this island back in the dark ages. Well also being out and about, then seeing dozens of nuns leaping to their death from the remains of the building her brother shot himself in. But ALSO because this film has that feeling.

Joking aside I actually like the feel of this film. It has a very old time feel to it. Like something from the late 70’s. Honestly it even gives some feeling of The Wickerman. The original one with nude musical numbers and a dancing Christopher Lee. Not the Nic Cage classic we all know and love.

It’s a good thing because honestly, stories like this should be as those from the before time. Most modern ones tend to be a little too…mystery box, or forget what made those films great.

Grace is out doubting Thomas in this story. She believes in science and the way of the world, free of religion looming over you, the fantasy that some unknown force controlled all things good and bad, and that we are each of us being tested constantly. She has a clear black and white view and it keeps her, as her brother described her. Clear minded, calculated, and calm. Things you don’t want someone being on an island where it is believed someone was murdered, but everyone tells you they took their own life.

The scenes with Grace and Mother Superior are great Through the film. There is a thin veil between the two that can be cut by a knife at any moment. You feel in her cold calm habitual nature that the Mother is testing Grace. And Grace is so driven to discover the truth about her brother that she doesn’t spot it at first. But she is definitely catching on.

What’s more though, is we learn there is definitely a great deal more going on here. Nothing is what it seems, as the only real ally Grace has, IS the detective. Who is oddly absent now. Sure there is a priest on the island who seems rather helpful. He’s someone of power the other nuns listen to and seem to fear as well. He’s helpful to Grace, at least as far as he’s willing to go doing so for her. He makes a case for transparency with everything going on, especially with the church involved as not to dirty their image, he wants to help Grace but he also kinda, you know. Has his own agenda. Like keeping secret what the hell is going on there. He also seems a bit pissy that the nuns are intent to try and tell Grace that a demon, an actual factual demon is behind the murder suicide.

Which granted I would be pretty upset about that as well if I was trying to make my church look like the cool kids club, and not Ye Old Murder cult.

People are fine if your religion has Dan Brown super secrets, but the moment you bring up demons, THAT’S when people get packin.

It’s kind of fun honestly. Because you don’t really see where this is going, but at the same time you sort of do. Like the pieces are there, it’s following what seems to be a familiar path similar to other films like it. But its still veiled enough to keep you guessing if what you are being shown really IS villainous, or helpful.

So far you have the nuns keeping tight lipped about what goes on there on the island. While also being as kind as they can to a point of creepiness toward Grace. Combined with the Mother Superiors not to subtle disarming of Grace. Remember I said Grace seems the sort who might faint a lot? Well she does. Any time a vision pops up, pretty assured she’s going to drop like a phophetic narcoleptic lady. She even manages to pass out into a lake. Where thankfully she gets saved. But from that point on, thanks to the Mother. Her clothes are taken and she’s given plain simple white clothes, and her cellphone is ‘Not as blessed as she is’, as it did not survive the lake. She has no contact with the outside world now, she’s being made to feel less a part of the world she knows, and more a part of this islands world.

Then we have the helpful priest. Who is scorned by the nuns for having given Grace access to her brothers belongings, as within his belongings we discover he had a journal. Which. Not gonna lie, is a huge sack of coolbeans.

WHICH. Just adds more to the mystery of this story. He kept a journal that he filled with research on the island. Notes on demons. Recipes from the nuns, possibly instructions on building a Wickerman, or Wicker person seeing as this is 2023 and all. But no one can tell what the hell is in the journal! Because it’s all written in code!!!

But Grace can read it. Because this is sibling code! Secret language club, Jack!

WHICH

AGAIN

Adds to the fun and mystery of this.

I like it because given the shiftiness of the priest, on top of Mother Superior and her own shenanigans. You don’t know who’s working to WHAT end goal. The nuns want to keep secret what happened and blame it on a wild roaming demon. But the priest wants answers, just not to the murder seemingly. So much as what the brother had possibly uncovered. So letting Grace decipher the book will tell them. Or lead Grace to swim the fuck off the island of demons and murder suicides.

It's just cool layering within the story, and showing us JUST ENOUGH, as to keep you guessing where it will go. At first it really did like I said have that Wickerman cult island feel. But the way everyone is working butting heads with each other while trying to lead Grace in different directions. It really makes it feel like nothing is what it initially seems. Maybe they are a super death religion club, Maybe there actually is a demon, maybe they just value their privacy. Maybe the most fun a monk can have, is nun. HAH.

Seriously I got tons of these.

Anyway…

It’s time for some police work!

Well investigating but. Still. We are all junior detectives here.

The film felt we needed some more layers to this story. So we’re getting some backstory into Grace and her brother. Which. Holy shit.

Not actual, shit but. Well let’s get into it. Yes.

While reading her brothers journal, much to the behest of the priest to Grace. We’re getting glimpses into both their childhood and more an idea what exactly is going on with the church. This is where the film gets even more interesting.

Unfortunately for Grace, growing up wasn’t easy. As it isn’t for most of us. Only for her, life was not a jar of pickled hogs feet. It was a life spent in a kennel cage as part of her fathers 5 star parenting. In fact everyone in the family was kept locked up in kennel cages. Including her brother and mother. Any time they needed bathroom time, Dad would let them out of their little cages, march them to the bloodiest looking slaughter house bathroom you can imagine, and shout lovingly for them to hurry the fuck up or he'll beat them with a huge wooden cross.

We learn that on this particular day, in their wonderful lives. Grace helped mom to escape. Only to get stabbed repeatedly by loving papa. She also attempts to free her brother which, nearly works. Until Papa full of love returns and is ready to off everyone else. Fortunately though he apparently saw the grim reaper who offered him a high five for his kill streak and Papa was unaware touching the grim reaper meant instant death. So he falls down dead and Grace along with bro bro are now free house elfs.

Which you would imagine, good for them. Right? Well I mean. You’d think so. BUT NO!

As Stan Smith said in American Dad. I’m remembering….more!

Apparently. Her brother uncovered through research. The church on this island? Tried adopting the two of them after they were recovered from their house of horrors. Which is puzzling Grace even more now, atop her brother purposely having written a secret journal about all of this on the island church. Specifically for her alone to read. Whatever it is that happened. He wanted her and her alone to know about.

Now the church and their idea of adoption is a bit different than ours. As they were in helpful discussions to do so and being driven off by a lovely nun and priest. They suddenly stop the car. Drop Bro bro off on the side of the road, and take off with Grace. Whom the priest then tries to sedate and or kill. All while reciting to her something that we’ve heard several times now through the film, “There is but one god, and is shadow”

Thankfully, and spoilers I guess. We know Grace made it out alright. Fortunately for her someone REALLY must want her alive, because the Nun driving ended up swerving headlong into a truck killing her and the priest, leaving Grace untouched. Which adds ANOTHER layer of suggestion if I don’t mind adding another layer to that cake, oh yes I think I will! Just not yet, we got more to cover.

Now if we needed more to chew on atop the heaping helping of backstory we just got? As the good Father is pressing Grace about the journal and what she’s uncovered thus far. He doesn’t seem that interested in the whole adoption thing. So much as being, rather careless and impatient to ask her about something he felt her brother was there to research. A relic. Which the church is known to have possessed, a very powerful relic.

Another nugget of mystery!!

BUT WAIT. There’s more!

This movie is a freaking holy freight train and it’s not slowing down for anyone.

So lets recap to make sure we got our bases covered yeah? Yeah.

OKAY so…

Mother Superior seems to have an agenda of her own and keeping things under lock and key, while pushing the demon narrative. She also oddly cleaned Grace’s brothers corpse, washing away any finger prints, clues, and signs of where he may have actually died. She doesn’t deny this either. She admits to it. She says he was covered in crabs and such that were eating him, so she wanted to clean him for God and all to see. This of course upsets Grace and brings the attention of the inspector. As does the notion that, as she admits. She somehow, on her OWN. Moved Bro’s dead body from the shores of the beach where they claim he killed himself and brought him to a room to clean the body. I’m not saying a woman isn’t capable. But me and the investigator question a 70 year old woman moving a dude his size at her age. On their own. She also seems a bit untrusting of the priest and his decision to give Grace her brothers secret language journal.

Father Suspicious on the other hand. Seems to have an agenda of his own, while trying to keep the sisters in line with the same narrative. He HATES that the Mother is pushing the demon narrative for some reason, and he feels giving her access to her brothers journal will help them to uncover more quickly whatever it was he was on the verge  of discovering, or unearthing about this relic. Mother Superior hates him for this just as much as he hates her for the demon narrative. But it doesn’t stop him from going further for his own goals as to GIVE Grace a shocking surprise, an entire biblical TOMB of her brothers secret language. Or is it? Seriously this book is mega old and at the very least four thousand pages. I don’t know if Bro Bro had time to fill all THAT in, which given how none of the clergy here seem interested in discussing their attempt to adopt the duo. Raises the question of, is this really their own secret language? Or is this something far more older and hidden?

Grace apparently has a gift, which I believe has a lot more to do with things than the movie initially lets on. At first when we hear people talk about her brother saying she had a gift to see things others couldn’t. It makes sense given her field of work. She looks under the surface and finds hidden details. This is why she was so upset with her brothers body being clean and giving her little to work with. At least it seemed so. But now, given how things have progressed, and her ‘visions’. Honestly I’d be curious if Grace herself wasn’t the relic they’re talking about. She has visions of a little girl in the dark ages, being taken into custody by a group of religious knights, being caged AGAIN, and carted off somewhere. She was caged as a child and kept under protective lock and key by a religious madman growing up. The more she seems to not just travel the grounds, but seemingly when she touches things. It seems to invoke these visions from her. The more time she spends here, the more she’s unlocking in her memory about her own past, while getting into the far, far away past. And between the subtle manipulations of the Father and Mother, they all seem to be working on steering her further and further away from her brothers murder suicide and toward their own purposes. Which involve using her gifts.

Now we have Bro bro. Why was he here at the church, and what started his path of the relic research. As for why was he killed? Well we’re getting that answer. Ala vision time with Grace. As it would appear he was being tortured in a very old testament fashion for information ABOUT the relic. BY the very priest they said he murdered under the control of a demon. We are shown in flashback that her brother was being squashed under a large wooden door with several nuns standing and jumping atop it over him, while being interrogated by the priest. When the priest figures he’s had enough and orders the nuns to take him up to the cliff of death and drop him. He uses this moment to pull out a dagger and gut the priest. So what they said about him murdering the priest was true, from a certain point of view.

So with all that unpacked.

Yeah, that was a bit to get out, thank you film.

But we aren’t done yet! Oh hell no. Grace finds the room her brother was killed in is now unguarded and free for all to enter and start a rave if they wanted.

Which Grace is tempted to do. But just as she is getting the speakers ready, and ordering glow sticks. She spots a friendly nun in the room with her. Before she can ask the woman for assistance with hanging glowing crosses on the wall and Raver Jesus, the woman pulls out a kitchen knife. Well I guess she could help Grace out by making sandwiches and slicing cold cuts.

But unfortunately she isn’t here for cold cuts. She also didn’t come to say Grace. She came to stibbity stabbity in the nuns abbey!

But thankfully Grace has the force. Or a guardian angel.

Or demon.

Likely demon.

As the nun politely, and I DO MEAN politely tells Grace to accept death as she kindly stabs her. An unseen force stops the nun, and forces her hand to turn around, and stab herself!

A brutal needed win for Grace, But a crushing defeat for the G man.

However Grace is now labeled a murderer because she was found with a dead nun and a knife jabbed in her belly soooo. A CRUSHING loss for Grace, and a measured win for the Investigator. Whom she now has to explain, and good luck with that. How this nun meant to kill her, but instead killed herself.

Good luck with that one pal.

Well of course it goes as well as you can imagine. He doesn’t believe a word of it, and the fact she is now spouting off about relics, an evil religious cult, and murder most foul. He’s thinking she’s a bit crazy, and sounding more and more like the people in that convent.

But Father Romero has her back. Because they NEED her back. So he calls and lies, telling the inspector a nun totally saw what happened and that poor sickly nun killed herself. When he asked for more details about the private nun, the father said “That’s nun-yo-business” dabbed and hung up.

Again I do not apologize for that.

So the inspector has no choice but to let Grace go free. Even as she tells him the nuns killed her brother AGAIN, and that the Mother Superior whom he has currently detained for questioning, is the one behind it. He doesn’t support this theory. But also eh what can the man do.

Speaking of support, do you know why Nuns don’t wear bras? Because God supports everything.

HA HAAAAAAAAA I gottem for days people!

Well back on the prowl and free to use powers for murder. Grace is going out for more answers. But not from the church of killer nuns. No. This time. She’s going to prison. Because as we all know. Prison is where everyone finds God.

But she’s also really going there because she wants to visit someone. Someone we thought for sure had dropped dead. Her dear old dad.

Yes, that’s right. Daddy isn’t dead. He’s just in a prison built for naughty people. How the fuck he’s still alive, both in prison and in general is a very good question and I hope they provide adequate answers.

Do they?

Oh god do they ever.

Firstly, dad tells us. He isn’t her dad. Apparently…he found her wondering alone on a beach at 10 years old. He tells her that her parents tried to drown her, but she couldn’t drown because…she can’t be killed. Because she’s evil. He makes no apologies for how he treated her or his family. He told her he tried sharing his home and food with her. But she belongs to the devil, and well. Devil gotta be caged up.

What’s odd though. I mean all of this is odd. But the MOST odd part we’ll say. Is when she tells this careless monster that her Bro bro died. When she tells him this. He genuinely breaks down. The man can’t handle that the boy died and actually for once shows real human caring emotion. He’s about to hang up on her on the prison phone, but. He whips it back to his mouth and tells her…bring him back. Like you did me, and all the others.

Bring him back…like you did me…and all the others.

What?!

Well yes. Apparently. He did in fact drop dead. Like we saw. And much like what we saw happen with the Nun who tried to stab her. SO…apparently Grace has the power of death BUT, also the power of resurrection. As she…for some reason. I DO MEAN SOME. ODD FUCKING REASON. She brought him back? After he killed her mom, and was going to kill her??

Well aside questioning Grace and her, priorities. Grace now ponders what the hell her dad/not dad was smoking. To be claiming she has this power. Which is odd, given she saw first hand how she stopped a Nun with the force, or the devil. From killing her and killed her instead.

Dad doesn’t want this conversation to go on any further so he just laughs like a crazy man and shouts at her about how her entire life, death has always shadowed her. That people always die around her. How she could’ve saved and brought back her mom after he’d killed her, like she brought him back. But she didn’t. And how now the darkness has taken over him since she resurrected him. Needless to say Grace needs to process all of this, and grab a latte.

Needless to say. Shit is about to go down.

As Grace deals with this news and heads back to the church of murder. Father Romero and the nuns are taking part in a very odd, maybe Christian, maybe evil, maybe just another Tuesday ceremony.

We are in the final stretch of the film, and its gonna be good.

Grace has returned to the church, and all the nuns are laying face down on the ground. Legs together arms spread out.

Some…might call this a bit suspicious. You know what else is suspicious? A nun doing sit ups in a cucumber field.

WELL if you hadn’t guessed it by now. The movie is going to spell it out for us, gloriously. Bruce. Grace’s Bro bro. Found the holy relic. He was  tasked with finding it, and returning it to the church. Only he found himself unable to do so. He couldn’t do it. Because the relic, is his sister. It always has been.

All the flashbacks to the before time, to her father caging her. All of it. Is her life as this holy relic. Which this church has sought, to purify, contain, keep safe, and consecrate.

All this time, between her father, and the attempt as a kid by the priest to knock her out. Was all done to keep her away from the world. To lock her up and keep her away. To stop the darkness from spreading through the world.

What we saw in the flashbacks, was not a past life. It was her life. She was put into the tomb, and preserved. She would never age as long as she stayed there. Somehow. Grace broke out and found herself wondering the beach. This is why there is a tale in the church of entire members of a convent sacrificing themselves and throwing themselves off a cliff. Grace did it to them.

She is the darkness in the shadow of god.

She didn’t hate religion and god because she’s cool and loves science. She hates them because she is evil. She cannot be forgiven. She must be stopped for the good of the world.

How do they plan to do this you might ask? Well Grace would like to know too. She’s willing to give it a go. I mean she doesn’t want to hurt people, she wants to be saved. She doesn’t like the idea people die around her. Who would! Too many people have died around her as is. So when she ask the Priest what she can do to break the cycle. He tells her “My child, you must do as the man who asked the nun if he could kiss her, she told him, you can, just don’t make it a habit.”

Okay last one I promise.

But no. The priest tells her they’ll pray over her, purify her of her sins, and she must enter a tomb, which they will see, and consecrate herself there. For all eternity.

Well as you might imagine, Grace doesn’t like the sound of that. She actually ask a fair question. Just what the Sam Hell good is that? What happened to, you know. Forgiveness? Gods love and all that?

The father shrugs, reminds her she’s just pure god hating evil so, y’know. She’s gotta accept that and get in the box. She politely declines, and uses the force to stab the priest with a huge golden cross. As one does.

So the nuns go crazy like they just tried coca cola with actual cocaine for the first time, and Grace runs to the hills. Actually she runs to the cliffs of leaping sinners and throws herself off it. Hoping this will cleanse her of her sins, and life.

Which would totally work and be cool. If not for the fact she’s unkillable.

Thankfully the movie is taking her free fall to explain some things to us. Like. Well okay the ONLY thing its explaining to us is her guardian angel. The evil.

It’s just her. In holy roller spirit form. She has been protecting herself through the ages. She was the one who caused the car to swerve and save her from the priest. She stopped her dad, she stopped the Nun, AND yes killed father Romero. But she also was there for her brother, when he died. Somehow.

So she has escaped. Back into the world of civilization. With her bloody guardian angel…evil. Self. Whichever.

But that’s not the end. Remember where we began? A nun with a revolver pointed at Grace’s head. That’s right. NOW we know who and why. Mother Superior, as she was held in the jail, missed out on the fun ceremony and killings. So she made a trip off the island and found Grace. She blessed the bullets in her gun, and said a quick prayer before approaching Grace, ready to deliver the words of the lord as told by Smith and Wesson.

But of course Grace lives. She has a freakish demon angel version of herself watching over her…self.

So no. She won’t be dying this day. Instead Mother Superior is high fived by a car and she is dead as dead can be. Leaving Grace free to heal the sick, and kill all who oppose her.

THIS. IS THE END!

OUR END!

Unless of course Mother Superior lives. Which if she does. She’d be in a wheel chair right?

You know what you call a nun in a wheel chair? Virgin Mobile.

THE END

This was fun. We had fun. The movie was a refreshing watch. It had a good, interesting story. It never spelled out for you what was going on or would happen. Which was nice. It had enough elements sprinkled through out it that you didn’t know if it’d turn out to be a murder nun cult, crazy island of the priest. An actual demon roaming the halls. A relic that could heal the sick and dying. Or a wicker person.

All  of these were possible, and the way they played it all up. Flawless.

The acting was really well done and honestly the three leads did a fantastic job. They were all believable and very much their own unique characters.  Jena Malone as grace was spot on. She played the part of the clinical mind well. She wasn’t annoyingly over the top or pushy about her lack of faith, and her background as she recalled it absolutely made sense with why she chose to remove herself from anything remotely to do with religion. To a point that when you are told WHY she actually hates it. It seems almost an alien suggestion for her, and to her. Of course Danny Huston(Father Romero) was great as he always is. I most recently remember him when he was on Yellowstone. Guy was a great character there, and was in top form with this role.

I mean really the way he acted. Following his own agenda, having this impatience and trying to silence the Mother Superior about demon talk because he wanted to try and use kindness to get Grace to surrender herself instead of kill her like the Nuns wanted. He sold it perfectly well and believably enough. Major props to the man.

Janet Suzman. Mother Superior. Hate me, or agree with me. But this woman. As brisk as her role was as Mother Superior. She played a better more believable part, versus Meryl Streep in Doubt.

Seriously she sold a creepiness and tone that you only get from an actual Nun with that cold of a streak. She nailed it hard and delivered. Really. She deserves a lot of praise for this, and the woman already deserves a lot. She’s done a hell of a lot of work in film and she’s got it still. She really does.

Films like this are really a mixed bag. A lot of them tend to be a little to contrived. Or very obvious with what they’re doing, where they’re going. This reminded me a lot of Final Prayer. Another absolute gold standard with religious horror.

You don’t often get films like this that maintain both a level of believability in the plot and characters, but managed to remain from beginning to end entertaining and interesting.

It really is a fine balancing act that can go horribly wrong, or turn artsy, like Deliver Us.

The problem a lot of the time, with this balance. Is when you try introducing multiple misdirection. You have the basis of a simple murder mystery. A dead priest and a man who killed himself. Add to that the feeling of being plotted against and unwelcome by all around you. The idea these people are working to cover up the truth of what really happened. Add to it the supernatural element with the flashbacks and visions. The mystery of a relic that her brother was researching. The questionable intentions of the Father.

All of that sounds like a lot. If you told someone this while trying to explain the film without giving away the end. That sounds overwhelming, which in most films absolutely it could be, and IS. That’s where they fail. They lean too hard on trying to hide their true plot, and focus all their screen time on misdirection. Good direction, script and acting deliver these type of films.

Dollars to donuts, always.

The locations were beautifully shot, the music minimal and fitting in tone. Honestly there’s very little to complain about. The movie did what it’s meant to. It told a story beginning, middle, and end with an hour and 30 minutes. Nothing felt out of place or unneeded. You couldn’t ask for anything better from a film like this.

Hell even the effects, which were very minimal were handled and done well. They genuinely looked creepy. Between the cross being thrown down through Father Romero, and one of my favorites. The one eyes nun getting her wrist snapped while trying to stab Grace. It was a pretty damn decent effect.

Speaking of giving props. Christopher Smith directed and co-wrote the script. The only other film of theres I’d seen and also found myself really enjoying was Black Death. A fun little plague film with Sean Bean. The guy knows his stuff and this film is just another success for me with him.

Honestly while I’m at it, you all really should check out Black Death. It really is a creepy fun film. The less you know about it the better. I’d really pull a double feature between that film and Consecration.

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this film going on, I just know I needed something to restore my spirits after Exorcist Believer shit itself onto my life and did the least amount of fucks it could while being amazingly boring. This offered a good story. Spot on acting and good characters. It let me pull out some nun jokes and it was a welcome surprise. Another gem that’s put us back on course and makes being behind in these reviews feel, not so bad after all.

I’m not going to spend the rest of this review fellating the film. Go check it out for yourself. It’s well worth the investment, and you’ll be glad you did. Spread the word to friends and loved ones. Show it to your local perish.

That being said, until tomorrow, or in some of our cases a few hours. Ahem…

What did the priest say to the nun at the salad bar? Lettuce pray.

I met a nun that wiped her nose on her clothes, she had a nasty habit.

What do you call a sleepwalking nun? A roamin’ Catholic.

GOODNIGHT!