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Over Thanksgiving, only five students stay in their college dorm,
Lauren (Kandis Erickson), Melina (Tori White), Alison (Chauntal Lewis),
Alison's boyfriend Diego (A.J.Lamas), and nerdy Grant (Joel Geist), who
doesn't actually mingle with the others when they party. Lauren is pretty
freaked out lately though because she thinks she is seeing the ghost of a
little girl, Cara (Bridget Shergalis), and when Diego suggests they try to
get into contact with her in a séance, they instead bring James Spence
(Adrian Paul), former caretaker of the place, back from the land of the
dead. Now that wouldn't be too bad if Spence hadn't been a serialkiller
when still alive, and now he's back from the dead in a way, he decides to
pick up his favourite pastime once more ... and before you know it, Alison
is gone, the security guard of the place (Jack Hunter) turns up dead, and
our kids find themselves locked in. Eventually, Diego figures they have
to call up Spence once more, make him possess a parrot and kill the bird -
but instead, Spence manages to possess Diego's body and kill him, though
I'm not exactly sure why. Then Spence goes after the others, and while
Lauren tries to electrocute him in order to save Melina, Grant turns out
to be a coward who just runs away, much to Lauren's disappointment because
she has almost fallen for him. When Spence attacks Lauren later though,
Grant musters up all his courage, makes Spence possess him and then throws
himself down an elevator shaft, killing both himself and the ghost in
doing so ... In pure writing, Séance doesn't sound like
much, but actually it's a pretty decent horror movie, with pretty
believable and fleshed out characters (at least for a teen-horror-film), a
competent cast, quite a bit of atmosphere, and scares and a bit of humour
in all the right places. All of this doesn't make Séance exactly a
great movie, as it lacks an imaginative script, an inventive directorial
effort, and plenty of other things, but as far as mindless teen shockers
go, this one's pretty good.
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