Sunday, 5 February 2023

Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2 Stars)


This is the ninth film in the Stuttgart White Nights Festival.

The film begins in 1955. A reporter is shown that all the bodies from a cemetery have been dug up and moved into a nearby building. They've been set up neatly in lines and rows. What's disturbing is that there are muddy footprints, as if the corpses have walked into the building.

Then the story continues in 1984. A high rise building has been built on the site of the cemetery. That would never happen in England or other civilised countries. The residents of the building don't know about the cemetery, and they definitely don't know about the moving corpses.

What follows is a confusing story of deaths in torrential floods and an elevator accident in the building. A mystery is unravelled of a cult that used to worship on the site, before the cemetery was built. There are ghosts and other apparitions in the building, and.....

Stop!

This film is awful. The story goes nowhere, despite hurried explanations in the final scenes. There are repeated jump scares, but they're the result of random unrelated occurrences. I have nothing against jump scares, but they shouldn't be used as a substitute for a well written story.

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