Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 3:27 pm
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. In an attempt to discredit such bullshit he makes a documentary about his attempts to get possessed by a demon. As you can guess, it works a bit too well.
He goes through a couple rituals from a couple different paranormal "experts." 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. 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. The tonic for this is DMT. If you don't know what that is, it makes LSD look tame. South American shamans and their followers have been using it for centuries to visit the spirit world/get fucked up. 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. Except perhaps this. Unfortunately, these two attempts are more than enough fuel for a plot that moves along at the speed of boring. 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. All the blood is spilled offscreen. 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 1444505306
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. In an attempt to discredit such bullshit he makes a documentary about his attempts to get possessed by a demon. As you can guess, it works a bit too well.
He goes through a couple rituals from a couple different paranormal "experts." 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. 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. The tonic for this is DMT. If you don't know what that is, it makes LSD look tame. South American shamans and their followers have been using it for centuries to visit the spirit world/get fucked up. 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. Except perhaps this. Unfortunately, these two attempts are more than enough fuel for a plot that moves along at the speed of boring. 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. All the blood is spilled offscreen. 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 1444505306