A job working the graveyard shift in a morgue? What could go wrong? ForShay Mitchell inThe Possession of Hannah Grace, the answer is: everything. This horror pastiche tries to inject some fresh blood into the tired exorcism horror sub-genre, but the result is a lackluster, haphazard, and ultimatel
ilmmakers have been attempting to replicate that success with exorcism tales of their own. No film has come close, although there have been a few successful entries The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a good example. Hannah Grace is not.On the surface,The Possession of Hannah Grace has a winning set-up. The c
appointing movie with good ideas. A bad movie thats bad through and through is easier to shrug off you watch it, you think, Hm, that stunk!, and you move on. A film likeHannah Grace, however, eats away at you. Because you can see the potential, and you can see that potential being squandered.
It doesnt help thatHannah Grace feels a little like a Frankenstein monster, stitched together from other, better movies.Emily Rose clearly serves as some inspiration the title even sounds the same. Then theres the recent indie horror filmThe Autopsy of Jane Doe, about an autopsy on a mysterio
Hannah Grace also doesnt play by its own rules theres a sense that the film is just making things up as it goes along. One moment, Hannah Grace can only twitch and writhe. The next, she can cause people to levitate in the air as if she has X-Men-like superpowers. Every room in the morgue has mot
Casual audiences searching for cheap thrills and a mercifully short time at the movies (85 minutes, all told) will likely come away fromThe Possession of Hannah Grace no worse for wear. But anyone hoping for a memorable horror film worth revisiting in the future will likely want to exorcise this de
