‘Evil lives inside’
The Spiritualist is a 2017 British horror film written and directed by Carl Medland (Paranormal Farm 3: Halloween; Paranormal Farm 2 Closer to the Truth; Paranormal Farm). The movie stars Ian Reddington, Jane Merrow and Julie T. Wallace.
Plot:
Laura, suffering horrific night terrors and sleep paralysis, believes the sinister spirit haunting her is the ghost of her mother.
Scared and desperate, she reaches out to the spiritualist to host a seance with her friends. Everyone is terrorised as the entity makes them all confront their worst fears…
Reviews:
“It tells a story well, is original, looks good, and is fun with enough twists and turns to keep interest. For hard core horror fans it’s maybe mild, but as an individual work, and good story, told by one of a rising wave of very 21st century filmmakers and auteurs, it works well and, it shouts great promise for the future.” BritFlicks
” …everything’s pretty much colour-by-numbers, well-made (especially the many long takes), well-acted but predictable – only to then turn everything around and defy audience expectations by not giving us a cookie-cutter narrative but a highly original (and suitably tense) finale instead.” Search My Trash
“There are some great parts of this movie, mainly in the double whammy of both Julie T. Wallace and Caroline Burns Cook who both give authentic performances. However, a surplus of irritating to forgettable characters hinder any attempt at making the intense drama stick in the mind for too long. So come for the seance scene in the eye of the storm that is the rest of the film.” The Rotting Zombie
Release:
Midnight Releasing released The Spiritualist via digital VOD platforms from December 5, 2017. The film was posted on YouTube by Watch Movies Now! on January 1st 2021.
Trailer:
Full film – free to watch online:
Cast and characters:
Julie T. Wallace … Mother – Devil’s Harvest; Spine Chillers TV series; Doctor Terrible’s House of Horrible
Jane Merrow … Woman in bereavement video (archive footage) – The Appointment; Horror at 37,000 Feet; Hands of the Ripper; Night of the Big Heat
Ian Reddington … Father – Fanged Up; Doctor Who
Jasmyn Banks … Laura
Arron Blake … Arron
Judson Vaughan … Jake
Carl Medland … Ghost
Petra Bryant … Petra – Last Village on the Right; Heretiks; Nightmare on 34th Street
Lee Knight … Daniel
Ross William Wild … Jody
Caroline Burns Cooke … The Spiritualist
Arielle Leigh … Child
Alina-Jane Rose … Maid
Technical details:
101 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.78: 1 High definition
