Réalisation:
Daniel StammScénario:
Robert ZappiaPhotographie:
Denis CrossanMusique:
Nathan BarrActeurs·trices:
Jacqueline Byers, Colin Salmon, Virginia Madsen, Nicholas Ralph, Ben Cross, Christian Navarro, Tom Forbes, Lisa Palfrey, Velizar Binev, Owen Davis (plus)VOD (2)
Résumés(1)
Selon les archives du Vatican, les cas de possession démoniaque ont considérablement augmenté ces dernières années. Pour y faire face, l'Église catholique a secrètement rouvert les écoles d’exorcisme. Sur ce champ de bataille spirituel, Sœur Ann, une jeune nonne, se distingue comme une combattante prometteuse. Bien qu’il soit interdit aux religieuses de pratiquer des exorcismes, un professeur détecte chez elle ce don particulier et accepte de l’initier. Mais son âme est en danger car les forces maléfiques qu'elle combat sont mystérieusement liées à son passé traumatique : le diable l’a choisie et il veut entrer… (Metropolitan FilmExport)
(plus)Critiques (1)
A generic and forgettable mainstream exorcism flick that should have been straight to VOD. The trailer was nice and pretended to be something refreshing, but it's drowned in clichés and unimaginative horror scenes. The very idea of a nun who resolutely believes that performing exorcisms is her calling is quite passable. The actress is likeable and the school of exorcists is something we may not have seen before, but they could definitely have squeezed more out of the relatively appealing premise, instead they relied more on the stuff seen a hundred times over. Fortunately, the film is only 90 minutes long and goes by pretty quickly, and I liked that it wasn't about only one possessed person, there were more (the little girl managed to be creepy), but I still found it underwhelming. The atmosphere doesn't work at all, every potentially interesting scene is ended with the cheapest jump-scare (not a single one worked for me in the whole movie), the finale in the catacombs does have a nice setting, but that's about it. It's classically PG-13, so no violence, the plot doesn't draw you in much and you don't care much about the characters. Watching it, I felt like I was watching a regular movie. Had I seen it movie at home, I would go even lower with the rating maybe. For myself, I recommend going to see Smile without a second thought. 5/10.
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