Anyone that knows me knows I’m a sucker for a good possession (Exorcism film). So obviously it was with some sense of excitement that I put The Possession of Hannah Grace into the DVD player. This film starts off with the exorcism rite that was supposed to clear young Hannah of her demonic possessor but the rite goes sour rather quickly with the death of one of the priests, and her father having to suffocate his possessed daughter.
The movie then fasts forwards a few months to Megan who has beaten her drug abuse problem and now landed a job as a nighttime assistance at the morgue. On her first night on duty she takes delivery of the body of Hannah. She also gets a strange visitor attempting to access the building claiming the body needs to be destroyed. The visitor is Hannah’s father and obviously wants to make sure the body is destroyed before it can do any further harm. Megan of course doesn’t buy it, and also wants to keep her job, so she plays by the rule book.
It doesn’t take a horror movie genius to work out that Hannah’s body is once again taken over by demons whilst in the morgue and of course all sorts of Mayhem erupts. How does this one end? We’ll of course you’ll have to watch the movie to find out!
The Possession of Hannah Grace is over all a pretty cool movie. The problem a lot of these films face is they are always going to be compared to the Exorcist. Failing that they need to create enough of a difference in the plot to not be compared to that film. This film does provide another angle (Ie: what happens to the body after the possession) at the usual movie trope and for that reason I think I’d label it a success. The movie itself is quite well shot and enjoyable to watch. There’s some level of gore but a movie like this does rely more on the atmosphere to make it work rather than flat out blood and guts. The suspense level in this is not huge and it feels more like an episode of NCIS rather than a horror movie. Not to say its bad, I quite enjoyed the film but it doesn’t rank along side other films of this genre that have been reviewed here already.
Overall I’d say a reasonable but not essential movie.
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