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.

Sadly, the horror genre just isn't for the Spanish producers. Sure they have some good movies, like Rec for example, but overall they create amazing thrillers, with brilliant suspense and perfect twist endings.

When talking about horror, it's quite sure that the movie will be a swing and a miss, because this is just how it happens over and over.

If you want to try productions like The Invisible Guest, The Hidden Face, Times Crimes, Julia's Eyes and many more, you will have a great time with those. Here is where Spain prevails and gives us amazing movies to remember and even watch again in order to better understand them.

La nina de la comunion is a weak movie, as unoriginal as it gets, brings nothing new, nothing fresh and doesn't deliver with it's ending either. It's just something you've seen many times, done poorly.

Nothing to recommend here sadly, go and find something else. I might recommend Piggy, it's new, it's different good but not horror as in tension or scares. It's the typical good Spanish production.

Cheers!

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...

After a wild night of partying, a woman and her friend come across a strange doll in the desert which draws them into a nightmarish series of hauntings by the ghostly owner of the doll and must uncover the sinister origins behind its appearance to leave the mystery behind them.

Overall, this was a decent enough if somewhat problematic genre effort. One of the better elements here is the way this works with the build-up of the spirit's presence in the family. The first half here dealing with the friend group interacting with the party and her home life signals the discovery of the doll and how it's affecting her giving this a solid start. There's some fun to be had with the idea of the town's superstitions figuring into the events to write it off and the intrusion on their lives and how it's obvious something is wrong that gives everything its impact. As this comes off the way it does, the second half bringing about the start of the hauntings is all rather enjoyable like the rest of those kinds of genre efforts. Since we're graced with an appropriately creepy backstory for the ghostly figure and its equally chilling appearance of it, the scenes where it appears and torments or even outright kills others in fine sequences that makes its supernatural powers felt, giving this plenty of somewhat suspenseful attacks. Even the idea of how to stop the ghost is fun, having several solid connections to its backstory and being rather fun which gives this a lot to like. There are some issues here that bring this one down. Among the biggest drawbacks to this one is the overly familiar setup and storyline that makes this feel quite predictable. Working as a straightforward throwback to this style of Asian ghost movie featuring the wronged spirit coming back and haunting those who get caught up in its path. There's not much in the way of deviation taking place here as it runs along this type of story and makes it quite easy to see the beats coming for easy predictability, lessening the tension somewhat. The other drawback here is that there's not much in the way of action for long stretches of the running time leading to some moments where it plods along. Several of the sideplots here, with the friends' home life being quite troublesome and outright abusive is an angle that doesn't need all the time devoted to it that it does, and several parts of the investigation lead to characters meeting up several times over so they can come off redundant. The repeated nature of the genre setup comes into play as well, making this come down from where it should be.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, drug use, and children-in-jeopardy.

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.