Sunday, 10 April 2016

VOD: The Diabolical (dir: Alistair Legrand, 2015)

"You have to be brave..."

What starts off as a rather dull and routine TV-movie-level Poltergeist/Paranormal potboiler is not quite all it seems, thanks to a belated but implausible twist.  The film wastes no time in setting out its stall, with an early matter-of-fact reveal of the increasingly corporeal malevolent spirit menacing a single mother and her young children.  The incessant overpowering droning soundtrack irritates rather than unsettles, and spite of the reliable Ali Larter giving it her all, the film never really shocks or engages.

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