![]() ![]() Perhaps Waterhouse realizes that, as well. A clique led by snooty mean girl Alice (Inanna Sarkis) plays a nasty joke on Kerrie (Megan Best), scaring her with a ritual involving a student who reputedly killed herself some years previously. But being second banana to the notoriously awful Dakota Johnson (google her and “bad actress”) tells us all we need to know about that. The movie begins with a tragedy at the exclusive Eveldine Academy for girls run sternly by Headmistress Landry (Marina Stephenson Kerr). The requisite titillation of the dead (female) teenager movie genre isn’t remotely titillating - a shower scene here, a leotarded dance rehearsal there.Īnd through it all stands Waterhouse, stone-faced and stiff, underreacting to this death or that bit of peril, selling the fight sequence with all she (and a stunt double) have.Īt least she’s been cast in a new version of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” so perhaps that’s what was on her mind while Waterhouse was shooting this. Writer-director Simon Barrett makes sure that everyone looks fabulous, as most are playing pretty, vain princesses, and those who aren’t immediately fall under suspicion. There’s a generous sampling of horror “mystery” cliches in this script, plenty of this or that death/disappearance “doesn’t make any sense.” Is there a dead disgruntled alumna or something/someone else out to “get” the girls - picking them off one-by-one as they conveniently separate and find themselves alone and dead? But those scratching, creaking noises in the walls, lights constantly flickering out and apparitions mean that Alice’s seance-strategy is the one everybody pursues. She and Camille are interested in finding out. ![]() “Some people think that it was an accident,” Helina says. StarringBobby Campo Nazneen Contractor Chris Olivero Devon Ogden Sin Halo Jude Pfaff Cortney Palm Theo Kokiousis Camille Knauer Morgan Thornsley Tyler Thornsley Sam Fine Hannah Ruben Chad. And it has to be because The Seance is mostly dialogue-driven, so the whole movie may have. Luckily, the new girl with the English accent has one friend, Helina ( Ella-Rae Smith), even if Helina’s agenda leans towards friend-with-benefits.īut they’re all in the same boat at this “haunted” school, with the recent suicide, which created an opening for Camille, perhaps caused by a ghost and not by the mean girls tricking, scaring and humiliating her into leaping out a window. Several friends break into a morgue and pretend to summon spirits from the dead, only to actually summon a deadly demon that possesses one of them. Its a great back and forth and is easily the films highlight. “You really don’t want to get on our bad side.” But WAS it? A suicide?Ĭamille crosses swords with the mean girl clique, led by Alice ( Inanna Sarkis) but including Roz ( Djouliet Amara), Yvonne ( Stephanie Sy), Bethany ( Madisen Beaty) and Lenora ( Jade Michael), young women of privilege prone to pranks. She’s utterly dreadful, but perhaps she hated the material and figured even “phoning it in” wasn’t worth the effort.Įxpressionless Camille shows up an Eveldine Academy just after a seance that led to a teen’s suicide. Camille, a young woman who arrives at the Fairfield Academy following one of the student's untimely and violent death. Rating: R (Some Drug UseSexual ContentLanguageViolence) Genre. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual. While her look, voice and name are distinctive, I don’t recall her standing out in “The Broken Hearts Gallery” or “Assassination Nation” the way she does here. While holding a seance, a group of college students unwittingly summons the ghost of a serial killer (Adrian Paul). Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Please consult the guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before watching movies inside theaters.Suki Waterhouse, a deep-voice/zero-range “model/actress” plays the “new girl” at a “Seance” obsessed boarding school in this week’s classmate killer horror thriller. In theaters and available to rent or buy on FandangoNow, Vudu and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators. Seance Rated R for buckets of blood and un-ladylike language. But moments of true innovation can be found among the blunders. Like its characters crafting a planchette out of lipstick and a phone case, “Seance” mashes ideas together and hopes for the best. Myriad bizarre choices - like costuming the teen characters in form-fitting pajamas and haphazardly inserting music into scenes - don’t help. When the film does choose a genre, it occasionally sticks the landing, but “Seance” ultimately feels jumbled. It tries to be a murder mystery, a slasher, a coming-of-age tale and a haunted house flick all at once. ![]() “Seance” meanders for most of its running time, wavering between tones and styles. Unfortunately, the film’s climax is at odds with its buildup, a plodding narrative constructed around flimsy characters with even flimsier motivations. ![]()
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