![]() Though all of this is standard fare for the genre, it's the execution that counts, and the screenplay being based on the supposedly haunted dybbuk box doesn't hurt, either. Wind howls as Calis' body rocks on a gurney, her family lighting candles as a rabbi screams scripture with water crashing in a nearby tub. The evil entity: Abyzou, Hebrew for "Taker of Children." In a classic bait-and-switch, just when they think the demon is gone, Abyzou resurrects in unlikely locations such as a hospital. As many horror fables go, they move into a new home on supernatural turf. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (of Walking Dead barbed wire baseball bat-wielding glory) plays a basketball coach left raising his daughters (Natasha Calis and Madison Davenport) after a bitter divorce. When we think we've visited the coldest cellar of psychological trepidation, director Ole Bornedal (with producer Sam Raimi) picks up a rotary hammer and drills us down to freezing depths with The Possession. With 17 million watching, the audience, too, becomes possessed - including the president of the United States - providing unpredictable entertainment that morphs into evil when a supposedly harmless, fake exorcism turns all too real. The show then unravels like a circus, hopping with rabid animals when real demons from the underworld steal the show, feeding off the rising livestream viewer count. Centered around a staged exorcism webcast hosted by "Father" Max ( Ryan Guzman) and best friend Drew ( Kyle Gallner), reality vanishes after Drew's fiancée (Alix Angelis) steps up to be the next "possessed" guest. But The Cleansing Hour takes that image and tosses it out the window. An average everyday person - Jane or John Doe - is dragged from society by the menacing hands of the Devil, shaking alongside a disgruntled, out-of-retirement priest fighting a supernatural entity. ![]() For most of us, a general image of what an exorcism looks like is seared into our minds.
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