Luciferina

I have done ayahuasca many times and have found it always to be a beautiful, life-changing experience. Making a true film about the ayahuasca experience would have made a better film, but no; this film had to take a potentially beautiful experience and toss in a demon named Manohin (he actually named himself early on in the film, but nobody present seemed to be paying any attention to this fact, so a lot of time was wasted asking the demon what his name was), and the chaos that ensues while under the influence would be insurmountable for the heroine. Take OUT the references to ayahuasca, and it would stand alone as a good horror film.

Well, usually Argentina puts out some quality creative drama, but this time - ughhh! Still another demon possession - a been done too-many-times-before script. 1. Usual person wearing a goat's head. 2. Usual CGI or contact lenses - blue eyes if kinda good; red if a real baddie. Usual fake scary demonic teeth for demon possessed. 3. Usual demonic voices in the background or growling demonic voice from the possessed. 4. Usual old big house in a secluded environment. 5. Usual lots of insects - big cockroaches here; also found in the usual strange opening in closet, of course. 6. Usual old garden w/strange tree and sculptures; next to cemetery w/more sculptures. 7. Usual semi-dead ghostly women jumping closer to our innocent nun. 8. Usual lots of lit candles surrounding our future victims; pentagrams on floor or body. To be Argentinian they have an indigenous, face painted, shaman with drumming & chants. 9. Usual pregnant (by whom we wonder) women w/usual upcoming child sacrifice. Conclusion: About the only thing scary is seeing fake colored eyes & teeth for a few minutes other than that a few people are toast, but we don't see it happen. Film mentions Mahonin, a late 1500s name (given by Catholic exorcists) for a demon possessing a French women.

The story is a complicated, layered character study folded in a supernatural, demonic nightmare. At times the movie stumbles through continuity with the many micro-plotlines bridging toward a climactic end. However it maintains enough controlled focus to allow the overall story arc to hold together. It's steady pace creates a slow-burn suspense.

The cinematography is a delicious blend of neo-Gothic settings and devilishly creepy occult imagery. Calzada focuses his energy on taking these characters and the audience through a cavalcade of haunting, eerie locations that create an epic and entertaining atmosphere. The practical and CGI effects are equally superb and the camera isn't shy about showing the visceral horrors.

Overall "Luciferina" is well worth watching, and for fans of occult horror it packs a punch. It blends Catholic concepts of evil with tribal mysticism and pagan mythology. It also creates one heck of a demonic horror show complete with a sexorcism that is totally metal.

Till the excorcism than it turned into some kind of evil devil porn WTF

It is about a girl who can see auras. She is in bad terms with her father and sister. Nevertheless, she goes with the latter and a bunch of her sister's friends to a secluded abandoned orphanage in a island to take ayahuasca-an hallucinogen drug. As expected, things start to become weird after they take the drug-thing that takes a lot.

At the beginning it does not look right although from the introduction of the second part, the end of the character's presentation, gets better. But in the end it is too long and sinks like a rock at sea.

I had little to none interest in seeing the end so I fast-forwarded from more or less and hour and so. Nothing interesting so I am rating it with a three and a half rounding up-as usual-to a four.