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Malcolm 
I disagree.
Group: Privateers
Posts: 27168
Joined: May 2004
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Posted on: Oct. 10 2015,12:27 |
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Synopsis:
Someone saw Paranormal Activity and thought, "Whoa, they put way too much backstory in this."
Review:
A guy's wife dies and he blames it on a psychic's advice that she followed at some point in the past. Â In an attempt to discredit such bullshit he makes a documentary about his attempts to get possessed by a demon. Â As you can guess, it works a bit too well.
He goes through a couple rituals from a couple different paranormal "experts." Â Both involve taking a sizable quantity of hallucinogens.
Session 1:
He finds a couple Satanists/pagans/emos and pays them off to do a demon summoning, but it involves taking a large dose of LSD koolaid. Â If you drop acid and don't summon a demon, you just suck at tripping.
Session 2:
He finds a mortician who moonlights as a necromancer and has him convince a dead dude's soul to inhabit his body. Â The tonic for this is DMT. Â If you don't know what that is, it makes LSD look tame. Â South American shamans and their followers have been using it for centuries to visit the spirit world/get fucked up. Â If you smoke concentrated DMT (obtained from the internal organs of a fucking tree frog), I promise you that you'll think you're possessed, too.
I was waiting for his next attempt, because there aren't many chems more psychedelic than DMT. Â Except perhaps this. Â Unfortunately, these two attempts are more than enough fuel for a plot that moves along at the speed of boring. Â He spends the rest of the flick trying to self-exorcise or control himself and his increasingly schizophrenic and blackout behaviour.
This is an exceedingly low budget flick which uses the "amateur filmmaker documenting himself with his own camera" theme. Â All the blood is spilled offscreen. Â The single death you see doesn't have a drop, probably because the special effects guy went home for the night before they filmed the shot.
Verdict:
This movie isn't remotely scary unless you have the drugs from the screenplay.
Edited by Malcolm on Oct. 10 2015,12:28
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"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
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"Better dead than smeg."
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