The Communion Girl

Creepy motion picture with chills , thrills and terrible murders. Taking as a starting point the bizarre urban legend of the ghost of a girl who appeared on the day of her first communion, the filmmaker Victor García elaborates in his first foray into Spanish cinema an intriguing and gruesome rural horror film set in May 1986. After a night out, in a little town anchored in the past, the recently arrived Sara and her friend Rebe decide to hitchhike home. During the journey, a girl dressed as a communion crosses them on the road. Along the way , they encounter a doll wearing a communion dress. The doll, a symbol of a tradition that is given to children who have just received their first sacrament, ends up at Sara's house as a gift for Judith. The young friends beging investigating and eventually figure out the origin of the doll , leading them to discover an eerie legend that haunts the mysterious location . From that moment, their lives will become hell . She's lost !. She's alone !. And she's cold ! . In the name of the Father, and the Son...!

This chilling pìcture contains bit good fun with grisly killings , relentless horror and lots of blood . This ¨La niña de la comunión (2022)¨ can be rated as a ¨Rural Terror ¨ flick set at a very conservative town in Tarragona , Spain , as the nightmare starts when our protagonists come upon a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion , from now on , a series of inexplicable situations begin to happen . This chiller takes as reference emblematic films of horror movies such as ¨The Ring¨, ¨Nightmare on the Elm street¨, as well as James Wan's films : ¨Annabelle¨saga , to create a story with its own mythology to which is added ¨The figure of a disturbing doll with a curse¨, according to its director . The film is starred by a group of young and mostly unknown performers led by Carla Campra (¨Veronica¨) , Marc Soler (¨Todos Mienten¨) , Aina Quiñones (¨No Matarás¨) and Carlos Oviedo (¨Las Leyes de la Frontera¨).

It displays a tense and suspenseful musical score by composer Marc Timón . As well as colorful cinematography , though mostly dark , by cameraman José Luis Bernal . The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Víctor Garcia . This Spanish director with an international career is expert on terror sequels , such as : ¨Return to House on Haunted Hill¨ , ¨Mirrors 2¨ , ¨Hellraiser revelations ¨, ¨30 Days of Night: Blood Trails¨and other terror films as ¨Gallows Hill¨ , ¨Arctic Predator¨ and ¨An Affair to Die For¨ . ¨La niña de la comunión¨ (2022) rating : 5.5/10 . Average but acceptable and passable.

This movie is not different for any other low cost horror movie. The script was too predictable, the story is poor and lack of context, this was a two hours waste of time. Maybe the actors is the only thing that I can rate, in fact I gave 3 stars because the acting was great. Nothing more.

When you have to animate a demon is that you have a problem and this movie have an animated demon. Is the only thing that I can share.

Summary: if you can avoid to see this film, do it. But if you have no choice and you have to watch the film, be prepared for lost valuable time of your life.

Maybe the next time...

Actually 4.5 stars. I wasn't expecting too much and I was right. The film is a remake of 100 other films we've already seen, so much so that this one looks like it was made in the 90s. To my surprise, it's from 2022. La chica de la comunión lacks imagination, script, special effects, the acting is mediocre, as always, and the plot is nonsense that in the end you don't even understand, in a final effect that, yes, surprises, but as I said, you don't understand it. It entertains if it weren't for the stilted plot and the usual horror effects. The only thing that is appreciated is that it's not longer. You can tell that it's a subsidized production, when you see the government seal, you can't expect too much anymore.

Unfortunately, somebody had the bright idea to do this whole movie in some strange moon man language. Almost impossible to understand what anybody is saying. It seemed like whoever tried to make this movie did not listen to anybody about this strange, alien language coming out of the actors mouths. I imagine this would be very hard for a script writer. This happened to me once before, with a supposed masterpiece of a film called peter pans labyrinth. I think the guys name was Dario argentino or something, but it had stunning visuals, but you just couldn't understand a damn word anybody was saying. One of the few movies that I actually walked out on. But at least the box office gave me my money back. I'm pretty sure this film marked the eventual downfall of all the new Disney . In most cases, these artsy fancy kind of movies are just not worth the time to try and decipher or get any kind of meaning whatsoever out of them.

No pun intended - we have a movie here that tries to develop quite the ... well lore. It does give us a new evil of sorts, which I reckon we can give it kudos for. At least one I haven't heard before - but be that as it may, it is not that it invents anything too major or new. Horror movies try to build on things that have been done before. Best case is doing it with great finesse and good images at least.

I would argue this achieves to be well captured and edited. Still flawed and predictable of course. But if you like horror movies, you may find quite a lot to cherish here. The ending is a bit weird ... but then again, need I remind everyone what you have been watching?