Seance: The Summoning

The friends Marcus (Chris Olivero), Joey (Bobby Campo), Eva (Nazneen Contractor) and Sara (Devon Ogden) go to the morgue where Marcus works to record a séance summoned by Eva that is a medium. Joey does not believe that Eva is capable to summon spirits and make jokes all the time. However, Eva summons a demon by mistake and Joey is possessed by the fiend. The Christian Sara tries to exorcise Joey but the powerful demon has many tricks to lure her.

"Seance: The Summoning" is a low-budget movie with great potential but unfortunately it fails. Sara and Eva try to use the help of God to defeat the demon but the fight between good and evil is poorly resolved. In the end, neither God nor the devil wins the battle and the story becomes pointless. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Evocação – A Porta do Diabo" ("Evocation – The Devil's Door")

And what it is is not very good. SEANCE: THE SUMMONING is an entirely cheap seance/possession flick in which a quartet of rather unlikeable characters break into an old morgue to hold a seance for some stupid reason or other. Before long one of their number becomes possessed by the spirit of an ancient demon and death, murder, and madness ensue.

This is a cheap little B-movie with very little to recommend it to the horror fan apart from some cheap gore effects here and there and lots of desperate attempts to be scary. Despite the intensity of pitch, none of this is remotely frightening and indeed it all seems rather familiar and lacklustre, with the usual script lines that sound like they're ripped off from THE EXORCIST and the like. The acting is bog standard, frequently verging into ham territory, and the running time drags out despite the relative shortness of the production. Next, please...

The ONLY reason I could get through this movie (after several tries) was for actor Bobby Campo. I mean he's the reason I watched in the first place but I expected it to be good at least.

The two lead girls couldn't act their way out of a seance, by the end I barely remembered the other guy. Plot was dumb but could've worked had it been acted believably.

Now I know Campo's not the best actor in the world but the eye candy alone was worth it for me, besides he was actually good as always. Ok I'm bias because I have a "crush" but his cute face, hot little shirtless body in those tight jeans I'm hooked! And that sexy demon voice? "EVAAAAA" C'monnnn lmao...

Anyway the acting got slightly(?) better towards the end. It's basically about 4 idiot friends who go to this haunted morgue or something to see if they could get whatever on film with their camera. 1 girl is the otherworldly queen, Campo is the hot unbeliever, other chick super religious with dark secret, and camera dude. Seance stuff happens, it goes bad, Campo gets possessed, horror ensues, tea is spilled.

Ok the drama wasn't that bad but it was just hard to get got boring or just plain bad and ever the top, I mean if it wasn't for demon hottie I probably wouldn't of made it to the summoning.

The setting was cool I guess, funny at times (but not when it's supposed to be), oh and it gets reeeeal Jesus-sy like almost annoying, hmm rats are always a turn off... and what else? They had minimal but decent effects and junk but all in all I'd say... yea it kinda sucked.

Hey, I'd totally like to kiss that Campo guy tho haha.

At the time of my review there were only 3 others. One reviewer,IMHO, didn't even watch the same movie as me. Another one of the reviewers really skewered the movie but still gave it 3 stars. Lets be honest, both the script and the acting was amateurish. There were no likable characters. Nor were they believable. I have to confess that I didn't see the whole movie, a quarter of the way in I couldn't stand it any more. I didn't want to be one of the reviewers who complain about wasting 2 hours of their life; hey, to those reviewers; why didn't you stop once you found out that the movie was awful? It is obvious what level of production this movie is well within the first 5 minutes. Even if you were intrigued by the plot; the production values are instantly identifiably bad; and no way bad in the good sense. Like a lot of other complaints about the rating system, I really wish it started with zero instead of one. Seems like this review has turned out to be about other things besides the movie itself but there's no sense in wasting any more of one's time than what's already been wasted. Forgive me for ranting.

As i can see many quite negative reviews for me this movies wasn't as bad as it seemed, in my opinion. I think the movie deserved a better rating as to what it has now to me this movie seem a lot similar to all of the other possession movies it was slightly predictable by it's title although i was not put of for one i actually really enjoyed the movie, it was not too scary but not to mild either just quite right. i think more people should give this flick more credit, thus it's actually a good movie it may have been on a low budget but that doesn't affect it's watchablity. I high recommend this movie as in my opinion it was really good.