aka Credo
Director: Toni Harman
Writer: Alex Wakeford
Cast: Colin Salmon, MyAnna Buring, Stephen Gately, Clayton Watson
A modern supernatural horror film that explores the dark side of the human psyche, and the terror in facing up to one's darkest fears. Set in London, England, the film begins with a group of theological students who decide to test their faith by proving the existence of Hell. Following their ritualistic summoning of a demon, the students are all found dead, apparently by suicide. Years later, a group of five final-year students are evicted from their student digs and break into the now abandoned Catholic halls of residence for the weekend, only to discover that they're not alone.
Five students Jock (the wild party one) Scott (the computer geek one) Jazz (the tag along one) Timmy (the angst ridden lesbian one) Alice (studious hard working one) get kicked out of their digs after throwing a party, they end up taking up residence in an old run down theology college. Only problem is that the place is haunted by the spirit of something that was unleased during a demonic summoning by five past students of the college. Substandard horror nonsense that even the great MyAnna Buring as Alice (who was in the wonderful Neil Marshall films Descent & Doomsday and also played Scooti in Doctor Who) can't save, though its hardly erotic slight reward for fans is we get a very brief lesbian kiss. The actors try do the best they can, given the dull script. Clearly some of the flaws are down to the low budget of £750,000, but that aside the director should of done much better as the films so disappointingly paced making 90s minutes seem like 900. Best avoided if you really want a great English based demon/devil film go watch 'To the Devil a Daughter' or 'The Devil Rides Out'.
(3 out of 10)
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