{"id":550561,"date":"2023-02-11T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-consecration-review-a-convent-thriller-with-scattershot-demons\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T04:17:45","slug":"watch-consecration-review-a-convent-thriller-with-scattershot-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-consecration-review-a-convent-thriller-with-scattershot-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Consecration&#8217; Review: A Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6b3fda08de\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6b3fda08de\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-consecration-review-a-convent-thriller-with-scattershot-demons\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Consecration_Review_A_Convent_Thriller_With_Scattershot_Demons%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Consecration&#8217; Review: A Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-consecration-review-a-convent-thriller-with-scattershot-demons\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Consecration_Review_A_Convent_Thriller_With_Scattershot_Demons%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Consecration&#8217; Review: A Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Consecration_Review_A_Convent_Thriller_With_Scattershot_Demons%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Consecration&#8217; Review: A Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Consecration_Review_A_Convent_Thriller_With_Scattershot_Demons%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Consecration&#8217; Review: A Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cConsecration\u201d is something you hardly see anymore: a Catholic horror movie that <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> about exorcism. Yet after decades of \u201cExorcist\u201d knockoffs, moviegoers have been conditioned to anticipate the clich\u00e9s of demonic possession. We expect them to be delivered, and in a certain way they always are. For moviemakers have been conditioned that way too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Set in a remote convent in the Scottish highlands, \u201cConsecration\u201d presents the audience with a sinister Mother Superior (Janet Suzman) who talks about God as if he <em>were<\/em> the devil, along with a batch of young nuns who smile with too much cultish devotion (one wears an eyepatch because she dug her own eye out after she thought she saw Satan). We keep waiting for the other demonic shoe to drop \u2014 to see a nun possessed, or a group of them gathered in a secret ceremony to conjure the Beelzebub of their dreams. All of that does sort of h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en, though not with the standard terror-trope formality we expect. And there isn\u2019t an exorcist in sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There is only Grace (Jena Malone), a British ophthalmologist who arrives to investigate the violent death of her brother, Michael (Steffan Cynnydd). Did he murder Father Carroll in the chapel and then take his own life by plunging off a wuthering-heights cliff? That\u2019s the official story. But Grace, a humanist skeptic who looks, in the early scenes, like a rather cautious denizen of Swinging London, doesn\u2019t trust anything about religion. She\u2019s more than willing to pin the crime on demons of the human kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For a while, so are we, as \u201cConsecration\u201d takes the form of a dark-side-of-Sunday-school murder mystery. There\u2019s a Scottish cop hovering around the edges. And there\u2019s Father Romero, an emissary from the Vatican, played by Danny Huston with his usual insidious mixture of bonhomie and threat. The set-up seems intriguing, especially when Grace greets the Mother Superior\u2019s dire theology by dismissing it to her face as \u201cbullshit.\u201d That\u2019s a tense encounter, though you can\u2019t help but notice that the rest of the film has that gloomy, muddled indie-horror-film rhythm \u2014 a desultory stasis passing itself off as atmosphere. You might go in expecting an \u201celevated\u201d IFC Midnight version of \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d but \u201cConsecration\u201d is closer to \u201cBlack Narcissus\u201d directed by Roger Corman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    British actors play Americans in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> every day. It doesn\u2019t happen as often the other way around, but in \u201cConsecration\u201d Jena Malone doesn\u2019t just sport a casually impeccable British accent. She <em>becomes<\/em> British \u2014 her mood and manners, the way she rocks the sweaters and bangs and debonair politeness. She creates a compelling character, only to see the film\u2019s director, Christopher Smith, swallow her up in all the ecclesiastical gothic malarkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The movie is about the mystery of Michael\u2019s suicide-that-probably-wasn\u2019t. It\u2019s about Grace\u2019s luridly extreme family past (which is insane enough to feel like a separate movie), and the visions she has going back to medieval times. And it\u2019s about the identity she assumes, or comes to realize is really her. She\u2019s like the hero of Ari Aster\u2019s \u201cHereditary,\u201d ushering the audience into an otherworldly existence from the inside. (She\u2019s also like Regan in \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d if Regan were her own exorcist.) Through it all, however, \u201cConsecration\u201d grows increasingly murky and blood-drenched and contrived. The scene where Grace goes to visit her monstrous father (Ian Pirie) in prison nudges the movie off the rails. And after a fair amount of jabber about a powerful relic, we learn what \u2014 or who \u2014 the relic is. It\u2019s supposed to be a real <em>whoa<\/em>, but at that point you may just feel like casting out the demon of sketchy pretentious sensationalist filmmaking.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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