Review Tuesday: The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)

 

 

The Possession of Hannah Grace

(2018)

On Megan's first day working at the morgue, a corpse possessed by a demon happens to be brought in. 

I am not really sure how we selected this movie. I think the wife was looking for something creepy for spooky season and the trailer seemed pretty good. So we were hooked in...

 

The movie starts off with a violent exorcism scene. Hannah Grace (Kirby Johnson) is showing all the classic symptoms of demonic possession, and two Catholic Priests and her father are trying to save the girl's soul. When it seems like the priests are getting the upper hand, the demon unleashes its power, brutally killing one of the priests. When the demon moves his attention to the other priest, Hannah's father smothers her to death, in an attempt to stop the killing. But did he succeed? 

 

Three months later Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) is a former cop starting her first day on the graveyard shift at the morgue in Boston. She's a former cop because her partner was killed right in front of her in the line of duty because she froze up. To deal with her PTSD she fell on a habit of drugs and alcohol. Now that she's on the mend, her AA sponsor hooked her up with a job at the city morgue. Of course, the second body brought in on her first night is a really creepy mutilated and burned Hannah Grace. According to records, Hannah's been dead for three months. How is her body being dragged in AGAIN?  

 

The rest of the movie is about Megan finding out the violent designs of the corpse of Hannah Grace and trying to survive!   

This movie was pretty good, but the title implies that it would be more about HANNAH GRACE and her POSSESSION as opposed to being the story of Megan Reed battling her own demons, the kinds you find in a booze bottle or a pill bottle. But I still have questions. Why did the demon kill everyone so quickly but chose to toy with Megan? How did the Police deal with the report on this thing, since there were so many deaths? Maybe I shouldn't think about a horror so much and suspend some more belief...

  

AMAZON