Seance: The Summoning

From the makers of the remarkable 'Hellraiser', this is not only awful it's bloody terrible! It's a real horror show (excuse the pun) and I just about made it through to the bitter end.

Initially I have to say that having read some review for this movie, I was preparing myself for a boring movie, but still I am not really one to turn off movies unless they are beyond boring, and I did find the plot of the story interesting, so despite the bad reviews, I sat down to watch "Seance".

I don't understand why it got so bad reviews, because I didn't find the movie that bad. Sure it was not a million dollar Hollywood movie, but still it was to the point and it had a good enough story to tell. "Seance" is about four young people going to a city morgue, where one of them works as a security guard, to have a seance (hence the name of the movie) in order to call up the spirit of the dead. Something goes awry and something dark is called forth.

The storyline was compelling and it was good at building up suspense and thrills. Now, don't expect to be scared, because it is not that kind of horror movie. Instead, it is the type of movie that builds on brooding atmosphere and subtle terror.

Personally, I found there was a little too much Christian propaganda in the movie. But hey, dealing with evil presences, I suppose that is what people think they need to turn to.

The people cast for the movie did good enough jobs, two people stand out and carries the movie entirely; that being Bobby Campo (playing Joey) and Nazneen Contractor (playing Eva). Their performances were really great, and came off really believable.

One thing that I didn't understand about the movie was if the entity that was called forth had been waiting 200 years for a mortal vessel to possess, why did it speak 21st century American English and not 19th century American English? If they had kept it that way, the movie would have had so much more credibility. And also, a cool touch to the possession would have been if the possessed individual spoke with those voices simultaneously.

"Seance" is a toned down version of "The Exorcist" and it would appeal to today's audience, and perhaps even instill a curiosity to further explore the market for possession-style movies and return to the 'classics'.

"Seance" is well worth a watch if you like movies that have a brooding atmosphere and builds up subtle terror, instead of being all gory and trying to be as brutal as possible. And speaking of gore, then there were actually some nice enough scenes with blood and injuries in "Seance". Thumbs up for that. And the story takes place in a city morgue, that just adds so much to the setting, and that was really a nice touch.

This film was so hard to sit through, what started out as a decent B movie film got stale very quick with the same scene that lasted for over an hour. It's story involved two girls & two guys, one of which was the security guard at the city morgue. So they decide to have a seance there around all the dead bodies in hopes of contacting spirits, all of which is being done to prove to this Joey character that there is an afterlife of some kind, so Eva a self proclaimed medium was the lead at the table to prove him wrong. So once they get started something goes very wrong, so they decide to try again(genius). Of coarse the second attempt goes even worse than the first and we are stuck looking at a very overdone and lame scenario for the next hour, with people running around acting stupid.

I found it hard to keep my attention on it and the only reason I watched the whole thing is to write a review to let other people know how bad this hole thing was right to the very end. I don't like to bash films or write negative reviews but sometimes it just needs to be done for humanity's sake. I don't recommend watching it, not even for a time killer because it will probably just end up annoying you, and there is certainly enough annoyances in life already.

I have only one thing. This movie could have been more but Sara's played by Devon, mouth drove me crazy throughout this movie. Why in the world would you not tell this woman how ridiculous she looks in this movie. I will tell you to never ever play any parts that make you cry or scream. So ridiculously ugly!!!!!!

The ONLY reason I could get through this movie (after several tries) was for actor Bobby Campo. I mean he's the reason I watched in the first place but I expected it to be good at least.

The two lead girls couldn't act their way out of a seance, by the end I barely remembered the other guy. Plot was dumb but could've worked had it been acted believably.

Now I know Campo's not the best actor in the world but the eye candy alone was worth it for me, besides he was actually good as always. Ok I'm bias because I have a "crush" but his cute face, hot little shirtless body in those tight jeans I'm hooked! And that sexy demon voice? "EVAAAAA" C'monnnn lmao...

Anyway the acting got slightly(?) better towards the end. It's basically about 4 idiot friends who go to this haunted morgue or something to see if they could get whatever on film with their camera. 1 girl is the otherworldly queen, Campo is the hot unbeliever, other chick super religious with dark secret, and camera dude. Seance stuff happens, it goes bad, Campo gets possessed, horror ensues, tea is spilled.

Ok the drama wasn't that bad but it was just hard to get got boring or just plain bad and ever the top, I mean if it wasn't for demon hottie I probably wouldn't of made it to the summoning.

The setting was cool I guess, funny at times (but not when it's supposed to be), oh and it gets reeeeal Jesus-sy like almost annoying, hmm rats are always a turn off... and what else? They had minimal but decent effects and junk but all in all I'd say... yea it kinda sucked.

Hey, I'd totally like to kiss that Campo guy tho haha.