The Communion Girl

No pun intended - we have a movie here that tries to develop quite the ... well lore. It does give us a new evil of sorts, which I reckon we can give it kudos for. At least one I haven't heard before - but be that as it may, it is not that it invents anything too major or new. Horror movies try to build on things that have been done before. Best case is doing it with great finesse and good images at least.

I would argue this achieves to be well captured and edited. Still flawed and predictable of course. But if you like horror movies, you may find quite a lot to cherish here. The ending is a bit weird ... but then again, need I remind everyone what you have been watching?

After a wild night of partying, a woman and her friend come across a strange doll in the desert which draws them into a nightmarish series of hauntings by the ghostly owner of the doll and must uncover the sinister origins behind its appearance to leave the mystery behind them.

Overall, this was a decent enough if somewhat problematic genre effort. One of the better elements here is the way this works with the build-up of the spirit's presence in the family. The first half here dealing with the friend group interacting with the party and her home life signals the discovery of the doll and how it's affecting her giving this a solid start. There's some fun to be had with the idea of the town's superstitions figuring into the events to write it off and the intrusion on their lives and how it's obvious something is wrong that gives everything its impact. As this comes off the way it does, the second half bringing about the start of the hauntings is all rather enjoyable like the rest of those kinds of genre efforts. Since we're graced with an appropriately creepy backstory for the ghostly figure and its equally chilling appearance of it, the scenes where it appears and torments or even outright kills others in fine sequences that makes its supernatural powers felt, giving this plenty of somewhat suspenseful attacks. Even the idea of how to stop the ghost is fun, having several solid connections to its backstory and being rather fun which gives this a lot to like. There are some issues here that bring this one down. Among the biggest drawbacks to this one is the overly familiar setup and storyline that makes this feel quite predictable. Working as a straightforward throwback to this style of Asian ghost movie featuring the wronged spirit coming back and haunting those who get caught up in its path. There's not much in the way of deviation taking place here as it runs along this type of story and makes it quite easy to see the beats coming for easy predictability, lessening the tension somewhat. The other drawback here is that there's not much in the way of action for long stretches of the running time leading to some moments where it plods along. Several of the sideplots here, with the friends' home life being quite troublesome and outright abusive is an angle that doesn't need all the time devoted to it that it does, and several parts of the investigation lead to characters meeting up several times over so they can come off redundant. The repeated nature of the genre setup comes into play as well, making this come down from where it should be.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, drug use, and children-in-jeopardy.

I quite liked this movie. I wanted to rate it higher, unfortunately its unoriginality and predictability kept me from doing so... but it was definitely entertaining. The story is very "been there done that". Still interesting, just not wildly enthralling and following a familiar formula leading to the predictability.

I'd say the most successful part of this was the acting. I thought everyone did a really good job and that was a large factor in the level of engagement in this film. Small shout out to the girl in the very beginning. She had a very short scene but she killed it.

They did a good job with keeping up the spooky, atmospheric vibe throughout. It was disappointing that every time they showed the "monster" I was taken out of the moment because to me the prosthetics were unconvincing and looked a tad silly. I don't know what the budget was like on this production, but the movie looked really nice, so I was surprised by the kinda subpar special effects and CGI but that's not a deal breaker.

The story definitely could've used some fine-tuning and a little zest. The pacing was certainly on the slower side and edged on too slow but was fine. It started to get particularly interesting all of a sudden and then it ended... which was unfortunate. I would have loved to cut some of the filler that slowed the pacing down and had what was the ending happen at the beginning of the third anct and gotten some more story.

Regardless, I think this movie was successful as is and a lot of that success was carried by the actors so, bravo guys. 5.5 rounding down to a 5, would recommend.

Unfortunately, somebody had the bright idea to do this whole movie in some strange moon man language. Almost impossible to understand what anybody is saying. It seemed like whoever tried to make this movie did not listen to anybody about this strange, alien language coming out of the actors mouths. I imagine this would be very hard for a script writer. This happened to me once before, with a supposed masterpiece of a film called peter pans labyrinth. I think the guys name was Dario argentino or something, but it had stunning visuals, but you just couldn't understand a damn word anybody was saying. One of the few movies that I actually walked out on. But at least the box office gave me my money back. I'm pretty sure this film marked the eventual downfall of all the new Disney . In most cases, these artsy fancy kind of movies are just not worth the time to try and decipher or get any kind of meaning whatsoever out of them.

Creepy motion picture with chills , thrills and terrible murders. Taking as a starting point the bizarre urban legend of the ghost of a girl who appeared on the day of her first communion, the filmmaker Victor García elaborates in his first foray into Spanish cinema an intriguing and gruesome rural horror film set in May 1986. After a night out, in a little town anchored in the past, the recently arrived Sara and her friend Rebe decide to hitchhike home. During the journey, a girl dressed as a communion crosses them on the road. Along the way , they encounter a doll wearing a communion dress. The doll, a symbol of a tradition that is given to children who have just received their first sacrament, ends up at Sara's house as a gift for Judith. The young friends beging investigating and eventually figure out the origin of the doll , leading them to discover an eerie legend that haunts the mysterious location . From that moment, their lives will become hell . She's lost !. She's alone !. And she's cold ! . In the name of the Father, and the Son...!

This chilling pìcture contains bit good fun with grisly killings , relentless horror and lots of blood . This ¨La niña de la comunión (2022)¨ can be rated as a ¨Rural Terror ¨ flick set at a very conservative town in Tarragona , Spain , as the nightmare starts when our protagonists come upon a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion , from now on , a series of inexplicable situations begin to happen . This chiller takes as reference emblematic films of horror movies such as ¨The Ring¨, ¨Nightmare on the Elm street¨, as well as James Wan's films : ¨Annabelle¨saga , to create a story with its own mythology to which is added ¨The figure of a disturbing doll with a curse¨, according to its director . The film is starred by a group of young and mostly unknown performers led by Carla Campra (¨Veronica¨) , Marc Soler (¨Todos Mienten¨) , Aina Quiñones (¨No Matarás¨) and Carlos Oviedo (¨Las Leyes de la Frontera¨).

It displays a tense and suspenseful musical score by composer Marc Timón . As well as colorful cinematography , though mostly dark , by cameraman José Luis Bernal . The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Víctor Garcia . This Spanish director with an international career is expert on terror sequels , such as : ¨Return to House on Haunted Hill¨ , ¨Mirrors 2¨ , ¨Hellraiser revelations ¨, ¨30 Days of Night: Blood Trails¨and other terror films as ¨Gallows Hill¨ , ¨Arctic Predator¨ and ¨An Affair to Die For¨ . ¨La niña de la comunión¨ (2022) rating : 5.5/10 . Average but acceptable and passable.