Geerlings’ maternal presence reminded me of Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring films. As Gary’s current wife, Leslie Easterbrook evokes a sense of patience and calm, the inverse of her Devil’s Rejects character (she also looks a bit like latter-day Jane Fonda here). I enjoyed the character interaction early on, as we get a feel for everyone’s emotions and motivations. Becky’s Return: Anticipating the third installment and what lies ahead.From Bride of Frankenstein to Cat People: five queer horror classics to watch during Pride Month.Terrifier 3: What we hope to see in the sequel.The Blackening slays tricky horror question with humor.
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Mane (who co-wrote the script with Renae Geerlings) seems to be going for a James Wan vibe here.Ĭompound Fracture is strongest during its first hour, as we grow familiar with Michael Wolffsen (Mane), his fiancee Juliette (Geerlings), and nephew Brandon (Alex Saxon). Whereas Penance Lane was about earthbound evil, Compound Fracture puts some familiar genre faces within a story where tenuous family relations commingle with the supernatural. Now, the prolific actor is back with Compound Fracture. In addition to its more overt horror elements, it showed that Mane could depict a flawed character with noble traits. Does the new supernatural horror Compound Fracture make good use of these genre titans?Įarlier this year, I had a mostly favorable reaction to Penance Lane, which starred Tyler Mane as a drifter drawn to a ramshackle house, and the secrets contained within. Especially since the first film set a high standard for originality, this sequel, which is helmed by a different creative team, disappoints.By Jonathan Weidler 2 years ago Tyler Mane and Derek Mears have played iconic slashers. So many sequences are structured to build to a little jolt, that the pattern becomes predictable and tired. (Incidentally, she is cast as the lead in Bryan Poyser’s SXSW film The Bounceback, which premieres here this week.) The film, however, is short on genuine scares and ingenuity.
It seems that little Nell, in fact, does not have agency over her destiny.īell, who returns from the first film, has an expressive face that easily ranges from angelic to devilish, even though she seems a little long in the tooth to play such a backwoods innocent. Ultimately, Nell takes refuge with a voodoo queen (Riggs) and her fellow members of the Order of the Right Hand, but even their conjurings prove little match for Abalam.
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He makes his presence known sometimes through the static on the radio, flocks of suicidal birds dive-bombing a church’s stained-glass windows (the second time I’ve seen this trope in a movie this week), and eerie touches that capitalize on New Orleans’ distinctive iconography. A friendship that develops with a fellow worker (Clark) sparks her dormant libido, but Abalam is not ready to release Nell from his lustful clutch. Encouraged by the home’s resident administrator to accept that she has the power to choose her destiny, the reticent Nell flourishes and finds satisfaction in her job as a member of a motel housekeeping crew. Emerging intact on the streets of New Orleans, Nell is sent to live in a group home for traumatized girls, and, thanks to the first film’s use of documentary footage as an intrinsic plot element, we are provided a brief recap of the events that transpired therein. The Last Exorcism: Part II gives the devil plenty of space to show off this handiwork, but apart from making young women writhe in bed and hellishly contort their bodies, the devil appears to have little else on his docket.Īs in the first (and obviously misnomered) Last Exorcism, the devil’s name is Abalam and he’s still after poor Nell (Bell), who somehow escaped the fiery, backwoods showdown that concluded the original film.
Although he’s not exactly known for his healing touch, the devil – if we are to believe the movies – can manipulate a body’s spine in ways that no mortal bone-cracker has ever managed. The Lord may be my shepherd, but I want the devil to be my chiropractor.
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