Young Toronto actress adds to body of work
The newest too-scary-to-screen-for-critics movie is called
The Possession of Hannah Grace, and it’s “from the studio that brought you Don’t Breathe.” I can only presume that’s 2016’s Don’t Breathe, a horror about thieves who break into a blind man’s house, and not 2014’s Don’t Breathe, a documentary about a man trying to find a cure for a possibly cancerous cyst. (Both sound pretty scary.)
Toronto actress Shay Mitchell stars as Megan Reed, newly employed at a city hospital morgue where, she’s told, “the only coworkers are cadavers.”
Kind of an odd expression, since hospital patients aren’t exactly co-workers, and dead ones even less so.
But the guy who delivers this line follows up with a doozy, describing a fresh corpse as having died while “her family was performing an exorcism, or something. (And) you know what they say. If an exorcism isn’t completed, evil will find a new vessel.” I Googled that phrase, and “they” don’t say it except in connection to this movie. The film was originally titled Cadaver, and was presumably changed to recall such horrors as The Haunting in Connecticut or The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It opens across Canada on Nov. 30.