Horrors covered in liquids, vomit and blood in ‘Infernal Possession: The Awakening’, terror from the place where political correctness does not fit.
One of the biggest surprises of ‘Infernal Possession: Awakening’ is not its welcome fidelity to the bloodbath and old-school splatter with which Sam Raimi endowed his debut with a frenzy of meat (and cinema) long ago. four decades. What endows this one, we would not know whether to say whether it is a direct sequel to Ash’s excesses or the impeccable remake that Fede Álvarez directed ten years ago, immersion in horror with malice and viciousness that is Lee Cronin’s film is that it is actually much closer to another of Raimi’s jewels in the genre: ‘Drag me to Hell’. It is true that in its (thank the gods!) concise footage, ‘Infernal Possession: Awakening’ locks its characters (mostly female) with hungry demons, paroxysmal violence (and yet not with the cartoon touch that Sam Raimi gave the franchise), cubed hemoglobin and an iconic chainsaw, elements that, together with the claustrophobic space, respect the hallmarks of the ‘Evil Dead’ brand. But more true is that what prevails in this remarkable film is the daily life of evil, its familiarity and its existence at our side. Just as an apparently insignificant discussion led Alison Lohman from ‘Drag Me to Hell’ to bring a witch into her life, an apparently harmless one (actually devious: another similar one is not far from her, with witchcraft and blood in gushes: that of Jaume Balagueró’s ‘Venus’) family reunion will be the spark that ignites the resurgence of a horror that has always nested down there. An underground horror not only in a city in decline (that earthquake in a hopeless neighborhood… similar to the one in the recent ‘Barbarian’, where, well, let’s add, coincidences?, the monster was also hiding in the depths) that Cronin does not hesitate to mention draw as if it were the cabin of the original “Infernal Possession” transferred to the dreamlike and nightmarish space of the work of Lucio Fulci. A horror in and from within that the film materializes with a whole display of mutilations, fluids, meat remains and dead matter.
‘Infernal Possession: The Awakening’ also talks about the ties that unite families, mothers and daughters. He does not fall into self-complacency and wasteful speech, but rather plays nervously and with intelligent malice with the relationships between the characters to remind us that human beings are predestined to engender Evil no matter how much convention, education and social repression make us bury all those drives in the basement. Cronin’s script and direction follow this labyrinthine and inexorable path: he attacks his creatures with their worst nightmares and hidden desires; illuminates horrors covered in liquids, vomit and blood; unearth the terror of that place where the politically correct has insisted on hiding it. Open the Necronomicon in a channel like Pandora’s box. Blessed be, dammit, for it.
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DATA SHEET
Address: Lee Cronin Distribution: Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Morgan Davies, Nell Fisher Country: USA Year: 2023 Release date: 21–4-2023 Gender: Terror Script: Lee Cronin Duration: 97 min.
Synopsis: The story of two estranged sisters whose reunion is interrupted by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a battle for survival as they face the most terrifying version of family imaginable.
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