Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Eighth Annual FMS Scarelicious October Movie Series: #7 The Shrine

HERE BE SPOILERS.  The Shrine is a 2010 steamer.  This guy's review is spot-on - especially when he lists all the better movies this flick steals from and also A FENCE FOR CHRISSAKES - but he liked it better than I did.  Read it if you would like some coherence.

But here, this is what you get.  (1) Briefly sketched plot summary:  an American student goes missing whilst travelling in Poland; two female journalists and a male photographer go in search of the story; it ends badly for most involved.  And (2) to change it up here, I'm just going to give you the notes I jotted down as I watched:

  • Aaron Ashmore (Killjoys)!
  • Priests and a human sacrifice
  • Nobody gets out of the shower with hair that dry
  • Creepy old Polish village, mysterious fog
  • Aaron Ashmore is the only decent actor - dialogue is pretty stilted
  • OMG WANDERING AROUND IN THE FOG FOREVER (demon statue/shrine)
  • So far, like a SyFy original
  • Do not follow the creepy little girl! Listen to Aaron Ashmore!
  • Do not open the coffins! Do not take the murder masks off the corpses!
  • These three are IDIOTS (only AA has any sense at all). I very much dislike Carmen and Sara = non-entity
  • Crossbow!
  • Is that really Polish they're speaking?
  • While the women are getting prepped for sacrifice, AA gets to dig his own grave
  • There goes Sara - oooooo the masks have spikes.  Meanwhile, AA still digging
  • Escape! Carmen is good at running barefoot through the forest
  • Carmen is hallucinating - must have been something in the fog
  • Demon wants her ... NOPE she's turning into a demon.
  • NEW THEORY: the fog infects people who go into it so the priests have to kill all the infected people before the demon is unleashed.  Priests = good guys!
  • Don't open the door, AA!
  • There goes Carmen (Exorcist-lite)
  • SO BAD
The poster is pretty cool, though:

Image result for the shrine

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