Hammer Film
Production
Directed by:
John Pogue
Starring by:
Jared Harris, Sam Clafin, Erin Richards, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Olivia Cooke
Didn’t expect much bang or ghost on this film because as I seen on its
trailer it’s some kind of psychological horror, so there’s must be more act
than appearance so that’s why I was surprised to see several of it at the end.
During the hours I have busy to compares the film with the real fact, which had
to be inspiration for this movie, that I’ve read on Phillip Experiment, it was
some experiment of parapsychologists in Canada in 1970 who try to prove human
mind could produce a ghost through imagination and visualization.
It began at Oxford in 1970 when Joseph Coupland was showed some cases
on his parapsychology class. Joseph was the man who always tries to define
supernatural thing with science, everything should have logic explanation and
that’s why he hired Brian, local cameramen, to document his experiment with his
two assistant, Krissi and Harry, to study and cured odd woman who’s possessed
by demon names Jane Harper.
Joseph team were using modern and scientific methods like Electronic
Magnetic Pulse (EMP) to tracks negative energy from ghost, sensor camera to
photograph an aura from Jane to shown the figure of the thing that bothers her,
they name it Evey and I found it very amazing in that period, also playing loud
rock music in order to kept Jane from sleep so her agitation could increased
the activity of that negative energy.
Science versus supernatural, that’s what I think about this film. Two
elements that always interested when it’s collided, and Joseph, with his
ideology and logic tried to explains every strange manner on Jane and
persistence to his conclusion that Evey is only some creature that made inside
the head of Jane. Brian upset because the experiments hurting Jane and its lack
of ethic, it’s proves nothing than making their subject harming herself and the
apparition of Evey get aggressive.
The cameramen who finally had doubt on Coupland theory finally looked
up from some evidence on library and he found that the symbol that marked on
Jane’s waist was a symbol of an occult sect called Lillitu, which worshiped
Sumerian demon, and they killed a young girl a few years ago because they
believe with doing so they could bring their god into the physical world. The
young girl’s name was Evey Dwyer and with her abilities she killed all member
of the sect by set them on fire inside a burning house.
It’s some example of a horror movie that used less visual effect, besides
the apparition of a long tongue that come from Jane’s mouth, but the story it’s
tense for me. The mixed between paranormal activity angle by Brian’s camera and
a regular horror movie was fine. But the songs that played on that movie not
represent the periods. Bertha Butt Boogie
by Jimmy Castor Bunch was released in 1975 but it’s played on the movie which
set up in 1974. And Cum On Feel the Noise
by Slade indeed released in 1973 but appropriated in 1974. Perhaps Paranoid from Black Sabbath will do
more.
Another thing, if it’s true that Jane Harper was haunted by Evet
Dwyer, or I’ve said Jane Harper is Evey Dwyer herself, why she said the ghost
is a baby? A baby who’s trapped in fire, with some stuffed to convince the team
that the appearance was baby creature, see also the shape under the blanket on
the baby box while in reality Brian discovered that Evey Dwyer was trapped in
fire when she was teen.
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