Despite a promising beginning, the supernatural horror movie Consecration is brought down by a confusing and unsatisfactory climax.
Consecration review: Even bloody, gun-toting nuns can’t save this horror movie Score Details “The holy horror film Consecration wastes a good setup with a confusing and hollow climax.” Pros Cons Some movies don’t know how to start and take a while to get you hooked. Not so with Consecration, the new horror movie from Christopher Smith, which almost literally starts with a bang. The movie opens with a young woman walking down a street on a seemingly ordinary day in London.
Unholy happenings After that excellent prologue, Consecration flashes back to a few months earlier. The young woman about to be gunned down by that nun is revealed to be Grace , an eye doctor living in London. Her mundane existence is quickly shattered by the news that her brother, Michael , a priest in a remote Scottish village, has died. What’s worse is that he killed himself after murdering another priest.
Grace is aided a bit by a detective , but she mostly goes it alone in figuring out what he the hell is going on. It helps that her brother left a diary behind, written in code that only Grace can decipher, which unlocks several extended flashbacks to the siblings’ abusive religious upbringing.
Smith is aided immensely Malone, who grounds Grace with a matter-of-fact sternness that slowly gives way to a grudging belief in supernatural shenanigans. Ever since her breakout role in the 1996 film Bastard Out of Carolina, Malone has been one of the most consistently reliable actors in the business, never failing to make any project she’s in just a little bit more enjoyable. Even when the movie quickly craters at the end, Malone still makes you invested in what happens to Grace.
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