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Beacon 77

UK 2009
produced by
Janice de la Mare, George Georgiou (executive), Gary Phillips (executive), Mark Vennis (executive), Brad Watson (executive) for Revolt Films
directed by Brad Watson
starring Kelly Adams, Jonathan Rhodes, Lucy Evans, Calita Rainford, David Horton, Cathy Murphy, Wayne Lennox, George Georgiou, Kris Tyler, Simon Thomas, Philip Gawthorne, Kevin Lehane, Saqueeb Butt
story by Brad Watson, Darren Mills, screenplay by Brad Watson, Debbie Moon, music by Marc Teitler

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Actually, Sarah (Kelly Adams) only accompanied her best friend Zoe (Lucy Evans) to Zoe's professor/boyfriend-to-be Malcolm's (Davit Horton) apartment to provide some company Zoe insisted she needed, but then she finds two nerdy weirdoes, Kendra (Calita Rainford) and wheelchair-bound Declan (Jonathan Rhodes) in the flat who try to hack into the computer of the Vatican to find a 3D scan of the original Torah, because they think it cannot only be decoded to predict the future like the 2D Torah can, it can actually lead the way to God. Somehow Sarah and Zoe get suckered into the whole affair, which is in its final stages, almost against their will, but the subject is just too fascinating. Thing is, while Kendra and Malcolm only participate in the project to gain some knowledge, Declan has ulterior motives: He wants to actually become the next God, a God of his own realm. And he's pretty good at it, too, soon he has acquired ESP powers, mind control, control over machinery and whatnot, and he's even able to leave his wheelchair. Also, he has soon killed Malcolm and Kendra, the only competition for his God-hood, and now he threatens Sarah and Zoe - but Zoe has psychic powers of her own and manages to keep Declan in check long enough for Sarah to kill her, even if that also kills Zoe in the process. But by killing him, Sarah has only set Declan free, free to destroy this world, and it's only a moment before the end of the world that Sarah starts to comprehend everything, starts to comprehend the incredible series of coincidences that have led to all this ...

 

At times a very fascinating film due to its cleverly mapped out (if still rather silly) religious and philosophical grondworks, the whole thing eventually falls flat on its face when all of the film's cleverness is ditched for a standard horror film finale, and once the villain of the piece is identified, it seems all of its complexity is doomed to cave in, too. Well, at least the film is very nicely acted and the directorial effort is suitably subtle and makes the most of its rather confined space (mostly the apartment) - which all adds up to a mostly ok movie, but definitely not a great one ...

 

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