November 12, 2024

Perfect brain candy for pantheistic believers who favor the Abrahamic flavor, but it held nothing for me beyond concern for the mental health of all involved.

The story itself is laden with inconsistencies & at points it's overly dramatic as if pleading with the viewer to disregard what is clearly happening in their very human existence & make pretend that burning white sage & reenacting William Peter Blatty's Exorcist is going to shut the doo… read the rest.

Perfect brain candy for pantheistic believers who favor the Abrahamic flavor, but it held nothing for me beyond concern for the mental health of all involved.

The story itself is laden with inconsistencies & at points it's overly dramatic as if pleading with the viewer to disregard what is clearly happening in their very human existence & make pretend that burning white sage & reenacting William Peter Blatty's Exorcist is going to shut the door on a hoarde of spirits that are sending messages from beyond the grave. Messages consisting of cryptic statements such as, "It's coming".

This is a film review but since it's a documentary about a specific woman and her family one cannot separate analytical observation from persons to project. It left me feeling concerned. Concerned for her & her children, concerned for any people being grifted by these so-called spiritual experts, and confused as to why they couldn't have made this film without embellishing.

Perhaps they were haunted, I'm skeptical of course, but perhaps. But when the mythos became more outrageous & the dramatic music overlay volume reached its peak & stayed there, it became a task to watch & take seriously. A woman wanted help, to be believed, she had her specific experiences and when the "experts" came into it it suddenly became an infestation of spirits looking to party. It translated as a mockery of her experience to try to amplify it into something more "exciting". I think it would have been better if they stayed away from trying to give it, "horror dna".

I'm curious as to who's idea it was to make this documentary. I hope & wonder if Ashley & her family were well compensated for her story and her time.

Whatever comes next for them, I wish that family peace, happiness, & a continued existence away from scary ghosts.

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