We spoke with Consecration star Jena Malone and filmmaker Christopher Smith about the female empowerment running through their religiously-themed horror film:
Jena Malone returns to the horror genre with Consecration. The film centers on Grace, a woman who travels to an isolated Scottish convent to investigate the supposed murder/suicide committed by her brother, only to discover something more sinister going on.
It's done in a very religious way; he ends up falling through a trapdoor high up in a church, and he's sort of mauled by these dogs. But there's this ritual going on where they all seem to accept it. I didn't really understand it, but I thought, "Imagine we do something where to get rid of your sins, you have to take a step. And for every step back, you're closer to God, and you're closer to the hole.
You know that as a fact, and you go to a place that gradually is disintegrating around you in terms of logic, and then you throw in this myth. I'll always try, without giving too much away, to look at Lazarus; to look at the supernatural elements of the Bible and see how I make this story turn in on itself. I think they link because the more the film is religious, and obviously treats religion seriously, the more nuts things become. Without actually being in any way derogatory.
Because if you see that enough, you're just gonna start understanding it. It's like if you only eat broccoli once in 1000 years, it's going to be a forgotten plant, but if we incorporate it into our diet, we're really going to receive the benefits of it. So, I think that there's a responsibility to kind of contribute to the myths that we want to take, particularly for our kids. I liked that this was giving us a new myth to kind of reconsider the archetypes of religion.
Christopher Smith: Something we spoke about before, Jena, is that Grace doesn't need a man, doesn't have a man in her life. She exists by her own rules, and when she's asked by a doctor who's her friend, "Is there a man?" "Does there need to be?" And there doesn't.
Jena Malone: Well, that's already been done, no need to tell that story again. I feel like there's so many stories of women, where it's the story of the woman becomes secondary to the story of the woman becoming a man's, that's just not as interesting anymore. Christopher Smith: It's true, there's two things. Blood is both life and death; it represents both. I think that's what it represents, when you see it on screen, it has this double edge, and that's perfect for this element of the story for progress. In terms of the practicality of shooting it, and Jena said it right, there is an excitement when you do stuff like that. There's an excitement, because you have to kind of think of everything.
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