Sacrilege (2017)
Starring Jenn Foreman, Jordan Salloum, Megan Few
Directed by Paul Catalanotto
Those wretched harbingers of personal possession pawning – the unforgiving tactic of bartering for intimate encumbrances – I’m talking about yard sales, people! The whole idea has given me the heebie-jeebies over the course of my life, and I’m not entirely sure why, but I just never felt comfortable rummaging through someone’s unwanted crap strewn about in their driveway while attempting to coerce a rock-bottom price for a piece of their superfluous clutter. In the latest film from director Paul Catalanotto titled Sacrilege, the dreaded yard sale acts as a piece to a plot that involves a haunted music box…oh, the horror.
Jessica (Foreman) is a woman on the hunt for that unique gift for her friend, and that particular present comes in the form of an antiquated music box, purchased at the aforementioned driveway-vendition. Things appear to be well-received until Jessica’s friend turns up dead, and the only possible conclusion is suicide, isn’t it? After a short while Jessica comes face-to-face with the fact that that damned music box is the cause for her friend’s most untimely death, and further learns that the unholy force behind the demonic tunes contained in the box aren’t anything to be screwed with. She realizes that she can’t stop this thing on her own, so the enlistment of a couple of ghost-hunters are the remedy to shoving this thing on the shelf (hopefully) for good, but we all know that this isn’t some sweetly-constructed Hallmark flick, don’t we?
With a bevy of Conjuring-like instances, we’re reminded that this film isn’t quite like the looming big-budgeted brother over its shoulder, but it tries to be, and oddly enough, doesn’t completely fail in its endeavor. Sure, there’s some SERIOUSLY shoddy acting (I’ll withhold names to protect the innocent) and some plot holes that a cruise ship could sail right through, but with some intricately placed jump scares and some mind-warping twists in the film’s latter-half, Sacrilege isn’t a complete abomination against the movie gods, rather a small indiscretion that can easily be absolved with a quick trip into the confessional booth – worth at least a one-time scan.
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