![]() The ghost of a deceased former student is rumoured to lurk through hallways, striking down unassuming students – and it’s all ramped up when Camille and fellow students including mean-girl Alice (Inanna Sarkis) and timid Helina (Ella-Rae Smith) perform a seance to awaken the spirit. The film stars model-turned-actor Suki Waterhouse as Camille, a British girl starting at the supposedly haunted all-girls boarding school, Edelvine Academy for Girls. ![]() ![]() While it may not be quite as successful as its genre contemporaries, it’s still an enjoyable, and oddly comforting, 90-minute romp. In steps Seance, a Shudder original film now out on DVD and Blu-Ray, to continue this trend. Past classics like The Craft made room for more recent entries such as The Sinners, proving you can ramp up scares and thrills in an educational setting. “The Seance” is an enjoyable watch that keeps things simple enough so that its haunting moments are presented as unsettling more than anything.There’s something undeniably special about the frat-adjacent horror subgenre. The film delivers alot of creepiness, but does so with a cool swagger attached to the whole thing. Michael Minto’s character is perfectly played out which helps to really fuel the absurdingly of the protagonist / antagonist relationship. Andy, who has spent a career debunking and investigating several seances in the past is transformed with a new realization to what awaits us on the other side.Īs mentioned before, the pace here is steady never letting things get too slow to keep things from moving into some form of escalation. Nate in fact proclaims that he stays their out of loneliness and has chosen to live among the dead. It’s almost expected that the story changes tune, but still there is inherited charm felt with Nate’s and Andy’s realization to the situation. This film could have stayed the course of a direct thriller but instead chose to give the characters some play between them keeping things a little more playful than other films of this nature. Her persistence rooted in a stance of denial further awakens the undead and a familiar voice from her past. His rules are simple….no pictures or videos.Īndy persists which is what catapults the tension of this piece. Nate, who remains calm and accommodating allows Andy her opportunity to investigate knowing that his experience is deeply rooted in the spiritual experience of residing in a knowingly haunted house that is not only host to 1 spirit, but perhaps several displaced spirits of past. The exchange of skeptic vs medium is sprinkled with a bit of humor as the two of them exchange opposing views and discoveries. When Andy insists on lingering behind he allows her the freedom to make her way around his seance room looking for clues or debunking patterns. What really works right off the bat is that Nate is a charming character who despite experiencing skeptics in the past has grown accustomed to their ploy’s. She has attended with the interest of documenting her experience to discuss (unveail) in one of her next episodes. On the other side of things, Andy is a well known Youtuber skeptic who delights in debunking these very kinds of events and activities. The setting is a quiet house where Nate resides by himself and pays his bills by holding seances for those who seek his services. Usually clientele are among those who seek to momentarily reunite with their loved ones. Nate is a career medium who charges his customers for an authentic seance experience. As you guessed it, “The Seance” centers itself on the afterlife and metaphysical side of things but done in a modern more-familiar way. “The Seance” is a well paced film that delivers not only as an interesting story but exceeds in the chills factor. It stars Michael Minto as Nate and Miranda Skerman as Andy. The Seance is a 2021 horror film directed by Christopher James Cramer and written by R.J. ![]() During the evening she discovers this haunted house’s occupants will do whatever it takes to avoid the limelight. A YouTube-famous paranormal debunker attends an infamous medium’s seance in an effort to expose his charlatan ways.
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