Director: Colin Theys
Studio: Chiller Films, Synthetic Cinema International
Johnnie Petrie (Jesse James) receives a phone call on his 18th birthday, notifying him that he has just inherited a farm in Maine. Johnnie abruptly leaves his city apartment where he resides with his overbearing and controlling fanatically religious pill-popping Mother to further investigate and claim his inheritance. Upon arriving at the small town train depot in Maine, Johnnie is met aggressively by locals that advise him that he does not belong in the town "stirring up the past." Johnny soon meets with the attorney who told him of his inheritance, and is shockingly notified by the attorney that who he always believed to be his Mother is in actuality his Aunt, and that he was adopted as an infant following his entire family being slain in a murder/suicide by his biological Father at the very same farm, of which Johnnie was the only survivor - leaving him as the sole heir to the farm. Johnnie makes the decision to remain at the farm overnight despite the warnings of the attorney, and soon discovers he is not alone, as he meets a squatter named Emma (Magda Apanowicz)hiding in a closet, and decides that she can remain at the house with him. As the story unfolds, Johnnie is soon faced with a siege on the home by the locals who had met him aggressively when he first arrived in town, though these are no mere angry locals. These locals are possessed by the same evil that drove Johnnie's biological Father to slaughter his family many years back. And if this is not enough, once these possessed "vessels" are killed, they return from the dead with far greater power and an even stronger thirst for vengeance - to kill the "one who remained" during the ritualistic killings followed by crucifixion of the deceased that took place at the farm many years ago. It comes to light that Johnnie's parents were involved in a cult that linked Christian ritual to the conjuring of the Egyptian god Osiris, instilling his followers with the gift of immortality. The film culminates in Johnnie's adopted Mother, the estate attorney, and another local attacking Johnnie, nailing one of his hands to a makeshift cross in order to complete the "ritual" started many years prior. In the melee, Emma steps in to save Johnnie from his demise and is killed in the process. Johnnie's attackers fall down dead following the nailing of his one hand to the cross due to this being "the fifth nail" needed to complete the ritual. Emma rises from the dead and notifies Johnnie that "Emma's gone," revealing that she has now been possessed by the spirit of Johnnie's older brother who was killed in the murder/suicide when Johnnie was an infant. Johnnie is then forced to kill "Emma/Johnnie's brother" yet again to end the ritual's cycle. Boom. Roll credits.
Mike's Thoughts:
I demand that I get the 92 minutes back that I wasted on watching this poor excuse for a horror film! This movie was flat out terrible. The plot was ridiculous, far-fetched (even for a horror movie!), and confusing. The acting was sophomoric and dry, there was not a single moment that I could state was scary or even well written or executed, and I strongly recommend skipping over this one, my brethren.
Look For:
Nothing...look for nothing in this movie. Bypass it completely. The best thing about this movie is the Giger-esque cover artwork. It was enough to draw me in, though the adage remains....never judge a film by its cover.
