Trailer available here
Ralph Sarchie, the main character in this show, was actually an officer NYPD officer that turned real life cases into a book. Those cases then got adapted, not completely to the letter of course, to an entire movie.
Sarchie (Eric Bana), teams up with Priest Mendoza (Edgar Ramírez), when there are some crimes that he cannot seem to explain. The priest goes about trying to convince him that evil and demons really do exist but a lot of it of course just seems to be coincidence the further into the movie you go.
That is of course until you hit a certain point and then you are so drawn into all these different crimes and weird things that happen that as the audience you also start to question if it is something more than just a coincidence. In that sense this movie/adaptation works really well.
It is not just in that way that it works but also in the visual presentation of certain moments. They don’t go easy on the gore or the more ‘horror’ dark gritty aesthetic that is for sure but they also don’t take it to a comedic level or that sort that for that alone will haunt you. Because they don’t need to. Have a good concept or a decent plot and a movie doesn’t need to rely on those things to be able to give a viewer the shivers.
The end of the movie did feel a little bit jarring to me and like it was missing something and that would probably be one of the things that I would fault it for the most. In that sense you could tell it was an adaptation of moments from book based on reality rather than a concept that a screenwriter had come up with in there head alone. It felt like it needed more to bring things to conclusion but what that thing would actually be I am still yet to entirely figure out.
Whilst this is the level of horror/supernatural sort of movie that I am okay with watching it isn’t something that I would usually gravitate towards. It mainly ended up on my watchlist because it appeared as a leaving Netflix soon moment and happy-go-lucky was not the personal vibe. Would I sit down and watch it again? No. Will I remember it if I need it in an answer to a quiz one day? Probably not. But for what it was it was a decent enough watch with an interesting concept.
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