5.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Starring: Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon, Kirby Johnson, Nick Thune, Louis HerthumHorror | 100% |
Thriller | 14% |
Mystery | 12% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Korean, Malay, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
It's been more than 45 years since William Friedkin's The Exorcist perfected the "demonic possession" Horror subgenere. Many films have tried to replicate that success in that time; many have failed miserably and only a few have approached that top echelon. There's no reason to expect anything beyond "miserable" with The Possession of Hannah Grace, a film with a title that promises another genre rehash and promotional materials that suggest a copycat film in every way. Dutch Director Diederik Van Rooijen, working from a script written by Brian Sieve, best known for his work on the Scream television series, crafts a film that largely shies away from a total embrace of genre trope, teasing more of the same in the first minutes but building a Horror picture that is less a by-the-book jump-scare-a-thon and more of an intimate character study within chilling, close confines. The film is certainly unremarkable and unmemorable, but it is a welcome step up from the sort of empty genre filler that is understandably the baseline for movies like this these days.
The Possession of Hannah Grace was digitally photographed with a prosumer-grade Sony A7S II full frame mirrorless digital camera. But that does not translate into a poor image. On the contrary, the resultant 1080p image is certainly proof of that camera's video capabilities, producing a handsome and healthy image that exhibits surprisingly little noise for a movie set in a fairly bleak and low-light location. Likewise, banding is only of minimal concern. The image is texturally sound, appearing a little flat but certainly finding the appropriate level of clarity and complexity within the morgue itself and certainly along various character and clothing details. The Hannah Grace makeup is notably manicured, with the prosthetic wounds and burns appearing tangibly grotesque and authentic. Colors fare well. The primary location is limited to shades of blue and gray and metallic, for the most part. There's not much intense color beyond a few standout examples, like blue gloves, the yellow safety bars on Randy's EMT jacket sleeve, and of course red blood. Skin tones appear accurate within the image's lower light and deliberately bland context. Black levels and shadow detail, critical to the movie's visual tone, are handled very well. This is a very good presentation from Sony.
The Possession of Hannah Grace scares up a well-rounded DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The morgue setting yields some enticing sound effects, compliments of quality sound engineering that takes full advantage of the location's acoustics. There's often very good, positive depth to various effects, from crashes and bone-crunching convulsions to less dynamic but no less sonically enticing elements, such as when a shellshocked Megan bounces a rubber band ball against a wall towards film's end. The stage feels frequently full with surrounds seamlessly and regularly engaged in support of both prominent and subtle effects and with the subwoofer adding just the right level of appropriate depth in support. Lighter but mood-critical environmental effects help give a realistic sonic signature to the morgue location during more standard character and plot building scenes. Music enjoys fruitful fidelity, width, some surround integration, and a healthy low end support. Dialogue is clear and well prioritized from a natural front-center position.
The Possession of Hannah Grace contains three featurettes and a deleted scene. A Movies Anywhere digital copy code is included with
purchase.
The release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
The Possession of Hannah Grace doesn't do anything to redefine its genre, but credit the filmmakers for at least shying away from an excess of genre sights and sounds allowing them to, for the most part, organically flow from the story rather than force them in to elicit cheap scares every few minutes. Hardly compelling, never memorable, but pleasantly satisfying in-the-moment, The Possession of Hannah Grace gets just enough right to warrant a watch and a recommendation, particularly considering Sony's Blu-ray is of good quality all-around.
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