Thursday, June 11, 2015

THE TAKING OF DEBORAH LOGAN

Directed by : Adam Robitel
Starring by: Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang, Ryan Cutrona
Millenium Entertainment


This movie should be play at Cinema last year but I don’t know what cause the delay so it just screened recently this year. The premise about "groups that examining old lady which had Alzheimer whose behavior was change very fast but it seemed something else is going on with her, something evil" made me thought to myself, woow that's cool stuff and I think the same thing as I felt that on Quiet Ones...some science thing that end up in horror ways...

This kind of movies usually put young girl to posses but I gave credit for this movie because they put old lady to be main character, which something risky for my opinion compared to what Texas Chainsaw did by putting good looking young girl to replace a-mature-woman-should-be to make the movie more interesting, but it did make the difference. Like any other movies that choose possession theme, The Taking used close shoot range style like what was on Paranormal Activity or Rec.

The plot was too pushy as well, as the group insisted Deborah Logan, the nice old lady that suffering early stage of Alzheimer disease, to be exam. First she refused but when Sarah, Deborah’s daughter, urged her mother to accept the money that offered to prevent their house, the story finally begun. 

Deborah was showing some bizarre action that state as normal thing by Dr. Nazir, personal physician, for someone with aggressive form of Alzheimer, but the cameramen Luis was the only one who noticed that Deborah’s act was beyond normal explanation and concern that something natural takes part.

As a movie that showing logic, it’s funny to see how Mia and the other were busy to find Deborah that missing from her room in the dark. And they're doing it couple times, they done it again when they seek for Deborah who disappeared from her room at hospital. 

Normally when people freak out about missing something or somebody they should be put the lights on before started to seek but in order to make the movie more terrified I thought they deliberately let the lights off. The close range shoot was also became the element of surprised because we don’t know what could be appeared close to the characters.  

Things became tense when Luis and Gavin record Deborah speaking in French while sitting on her old switchboard about sacrifice and snake, and the line of 337 that continually rings belongs to local physician named Henry Desjardin, who disappeared after series of cannibal ritualistic murder of four young girls. Deborah’s action that became extreme and violent forced them to put her in hospital.

While Deborah taking care at hospital, Mia and the other discovered Desjardin was doing ancient demonic ritual that took five girls to accomplished to make him immortal. Unfortunately, he just got four before he disappeared mysteriously after that. They suspected Deborah was involved in something that make Desjardin disappeared. 

Sarah could be his fifth victim but before he accomplished his mission Deborah killed Desjardin first and his ghost is been haunting her now. They also found out that Deborah case actually similar to what happened on the possession case at Africa and the witch doctor there ends it by burning the kid’s corpse with fire. So Sarah started to look where her mother burry Desjardin.

In the hospital, Deborah succeed to abduct Cara, a cancer patient young girl, and take her to the location where Desjardin murder all his victims in previous time. It’s cool to see when Mia sees Deborah trying to eat Cara’s head in snake-like manner, showing that the demons inside Deborah is actually what they thought about that African’s ancient demonic ritual that includes snakes. Before they succeed to burn Desjardin corpse to ends the demonic act, Deborah was able to killed Chief Police first. 

In the end it shows a footage of Deborah that couldn't send to trail because she’s not in perfect health and how the cancer patient young girl became heals perfectly, there’s no surprise when Cara ends the scene with weird smile that told us that Desjardin finally able to control her, but how can he do that because he didn’t finished the ritual, wasn’t it? 

And that was when I thought about the Chief Police that got killed because she’s young and she’s must be virgin as required by the ritual...she’s the fifth victims and the mission accomplished...  

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