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The Facility
The Rizen: Possession / The Rizen 2
UK 2019
produced by Clare Pearce, Martin Gooch (executive) for Lost Eye Films, Goldfinch Studios
directed by Matt Mitchell
starring Harriet Madeley, Michael Fatogun, Sarine Sofair, Kevin Leslie, Sophie Miller-Sheen, Marcus Bronzy, James Barnes, Lewis Saunderson, Connor Williams, Clarice Burton, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Laurence Kennedy, Stephen Marcus, Justin Groves, Carol Cleveland, Jennie Lathan, Stanley Farr, Laura Swift, Christopher Tajah, Omri Rose, , Peter Meyer, Leroy Kincaide, Richard Gething, Taylor Parsons, Louis Findlay, Tony Mardon, Jamie Roberts (= Jamie Long), David Frias-Robles, Oli Regan, Michael Kennedy, Jack Walter, Daniel Pike, Sarah Langrish-Smith, Colin Llewelyn Chapman, Patrick Bauristhene, Austin Caley, Matt Thompson, Scott Hillier, Rory Murphy, James Keane, Al Day, Tom Clarke, Roger Smith, Colin Chapman, Andy Abbott, Aidan Berry, Philip Brown, Chris Sutton, Daniel Bryant, Chris Snipp, Danny Bevan, George Tyrell, Amir Elam, Curtis Gault, Martin Ellis
Matt Mitchell], music by Adam Price], makeup and special effects by, music by Adam Price, makeup and special effects by Jess Heath
Rizen
review by Mike Haberfelner
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60 years after what happened in The
Rizen, a quintet of youngsters - Grace (Harriet Madeley), Steve
(Kevin Leslie), Maddie (Sophie Miller-Sheen), Adam (Marcus Bronzy) and
Becca (Clarice Burton) - decide to investigate the facility the earlier
movie has taken place in, not really for any particular reason, just
because it's there, and it's a top secret yet unguarded abandoned army
facility, and of course the youngsters are oblivious to the place's
history. Now the place is properly spooky, but nothing much actually
happens other than Grace has a few visions, which all might be figments of
her imagination triggered by the place of course. And then, pretty much
out of the blue Becca disappears ...
Sergeant Davies (Michael Fatogun) and his team of mercenaries (Sarine
Sofair, James Barnes, Lewis Saunderson, Connor Williams) are hired to get
the youngsters out of the facility, and Davies is given a notebook that's
supposed to be a manual for the facility, but that he fails to understand
as it's all in Latin. Once Davies and company are in the facility though,
they're attacked and slowly decimated by any number of blind and bandaged
carnivorous creatures, so much so that their mission to remove our
youngsters from the place becomes secondary. The youngsters though try
their best to stay out of the mercenaries' way - but it's only when they
join forces that they start to have a fighting chance against the
creatures. And it eventually turns out that Grace knows much more about
this than she has let on - and in fact that she is even aware of herself.
But she gets messages from beyond originating from Frances (Laura Swift)
from the first movie - informations vital not only for survival but to
save the world from an evil originating from a gate to Hell the military
tried to open 60 years ago - and that apparently hasn't been fully shut
yet ...
A nice sequel to The Rizen
that really finds something new in the concept without betraying the
original, and while it loses the absurd qualities of the earlier movie, it
works really well as a horror-action hybrid that gets the most out of the
movie's claustrophobic settings, while on a story side it's cleverly
structured to only by the by give away its information for the audience to
piece together, this way keeping the tension high throughout. And a
dynamic direction and a very able cast make this pretty cool genre
entertainment.
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