A Rundown of the 13 Best Horror Movies I've Seen in the Past Year
[5 of 13]
(July 2016)
"This is a serious undertakin'. It's not fuckin’ astral
projection or runes. This is real stuff we’re playin’ with.
“Real angels, real
demons.”
Writer/director
Liam Gavin’s feature debut, A Dark Song,
is a vastly impressive piece that sees Sophia (Dark Touch’s Catherine Walker) hire Joseph Solomon (Steve Oram from
TV’s Glue and The Living and the Dead) to help her with a heavy-duty occult
ritual.
Isolated
along with the pair in a house in the Welsh countryside, we watch as they
gradually move through the varying stages of the ritual, moving inexorably
towards its culmination.
“Science describes the
least of things. The least of what something is.
“Religion, magick… bows
to the endless in everything. The mystery.”
This
isn’t some Dr. Strange fancy-hand-gestures-with-spinning-CGI-sparklers-as-background
magic, mind.
This
is the exacting, torturous world of ritual magick we’ve stepped into, where tiny
and seemingly innocuous signs are meant to be interpreted as supernatural portents
of massive weight and undeniable gravity, manifestations of the divine (or the
infernal).
A
world where everything comes at a
steep price.
And
Gavin places us right in the middle of this occult crucible, compelled to watch
as Sophia suffers the rite’s rigors, as she burns with the righteous flame of
her personal desire.
“This is the price of
our rage. Embrace it, don’t fear it. It’s you and it’s me.
“Poor us.”
(A Dark Song OS’ courtesy of comingsoon.net
& screenanarchy.com.)
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