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Alyson (Jennifer Mischiati) and Richard (Christoph Hülsen) and their
little baby have just moved into the house that has been left to Alyson by
her father (David White) - much to her discomfort, really, not only
because he has committed suicide in the place but also because their
relationship has been troubled since he has given her up for abortion at
age 9. As soon as they've moved into, Richard has to leave for a business
trip, leaving Alyson with much time on her hand to explore the house and
subsequently her own past - and she finds a tape showing an exorcism
performed on her as a 9 year old. Soon, too, Alyson has the feeling their
house is haunted, and she subsequently calls in Father Elbert (Sean James
Sutton) for an exorcism, incidently the same priest who performed the
exorcism on her. But the good father never gets round to actually
performing that exorcism because he's killed by whatever it is that
possesses the house. Enter demonologist Dave (Douglas Dean), who soon gets
the full view of what's happening: The house is haunted by a bride
(Francesca Albanese) that has been killed here many years ago, with her
remains hidden somewhere on the premises, but when she was killed she was
pregnant - which puts Alyson's baby at special risk ... and before you
know it, the baby has disappeared. Now to get the baby back, Alyson has to
go into deep sleep to enter the haunted world to face the bride on her own
turf. Now that already sounds dangerous enough, but it's more so as the
bride has actually been instrumentalized by demon Asmodeus (Luciano
Mancini), who tries to use her as a portal to the world of the living ... A
stylish and effective little spooker that might be based on a rather wild
and far-fetched story but that at the same time has all the suspense and
jump scares in all the right places, that's suitably gruesome and spooky
when it needs to be and that's directed by a sure and genre savvy enough
hand to provide good genre entertainment throughout, and a solid and
grounded cast only help make this one work all the better.
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