Murdered priests! Bloody nuns! Amateur investigations! Buried secrets! Catholic intrigue! So why isn't the new horror picture Consecration scarier or more fun? nataliakeogan investigates:
. Co-written by Smith and Laurie Cook, the film utilizes run-of-the-mill Catholic possession imagery and unoriginal plot points to convey a hackneyed idea about healing from buried traumas. Though it does hint at the toxicity and conspiratorial nature of a powerful institution, it never finds root in overt observations. It handles too many threads—childhood tragedy, murder cover-ups, clandestine spiritual rites—without the dexterity to effectively weave them together.
Jena Malone plays the blandly sacred-sounding Grace, a young woman who receives dreadful news about her clergyman brother’s passing at the Mount Savior Convent in Scotland. Police believe his death was part of a grim murder-suicide: After killing a fellow priest, he threw himself off of surrounding cliffs and into the rough waters of the Atlantic. Of course, Grace finds this development impossible to believe, and the convent’s oddball Mother Superior doesn’t blame her.
Beyond its effective script full of half-developed ideas, one of the film’s biggest letdowns is the underwhelming presence of its principal setting and shooting location. Scotland’s famously breathtaking Isle of Skye serves as the backdrop for’s convent, yet the natural beauty of the island is never captured or defined. In fact, the drab and dreary monotony of Grace’s lonely life as an ophthalmologist follows her to what should be breathtaking vistas of jagged cliffs and rugged ocean waves.
Cinematographers Rob Hart and Shaun Mone don’t cast their cameras upon the terrain with any perceptible wonder or curiosity; their only objective is obtaining the requisite shots to tell a flatly realized account of spiritual unease. Their general lack of admiration for Skye makes one wonder why the film even opted to shoot on location at all; the filmmakers could have easily gotten the same result by filming on an equally uninspired set.
However, just because these flashbacks hold hidden meaning for Grace doesn’t mean that they’re at all effective, boiling down to a climactic twist that outright copies and offers little clarity as to why the story took this turn. “My brother always believed I had a guardian angel. I used to believe in nothing. Now I’m not so sure.
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