Jamie's (Lili Davis) a bright 13 year old computer whiz - who's just too nosy for her own good, so one day she stumbles upon a website on the dark web that shows real life exorcisms - and watching one such exorcism from the 1970s, she has the feeling the woman exorcised, Lacie (Brii Frank), actually talks to her. At first she thinks it a prank set up by her best friend (Alyssa Ramirez), but she starts to have nightmares about the clip, eventually even starts to have disturbing visions. Her parents (Alexandria Allerheiligen, Michael Harris) are completely clueless about what to do, to the point where they decide to not believe her, but her grandmother Rose (Debra Lamb) has an open ear for her, also because she has had strange visions herself and even shares some with her grandchild. So they research the exorcism in question and learn it was performed in an

asylum by a somewhat questionable priest (Peter Goldthwaite), so they, together with sympathetic Father Ryan (Kazua Salazar), decide to perform their own exorcism at the by now abandoned asylum - and it's high time, too, as people who have come in touch with Jamie's story start dying ...

Horror favourite Bill Oberst jr plays an enigmatic bishop.

Now I won't lie to you, not all of the film's script makes perfect sense, and some things seem to have been thrown in for effect rather than narrative value - but that said, the film's indeed very effective, its direction is atmospheric and genre savvy, its suspense sequences and jump scares are well placed, and the cast is uniformly solid, with special praise going to young Lili Davis, who not only gives an impressive performance especially regarding her age, she also develops deep-rooted chemistry with the always dependable genre veteran Debra Lamb, who's really coming into her own as the film's de facto co lead with a strong performance of her own - which is so important for the dynamic of a film like this. So in all, a very worthwhile genre effort.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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