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Having recently watched for the first time Ashley Thorpe’s Borley Rectory and re-watched Burnt Offerings, The Banishing comes at a fortuitous time as it draws on the phantoms of the former and the idea of a house that is just plain evil from the latter. Opening with a bloody murder and suicide of a priest and his wife we go forward three years and the arrival of a new priest Linus (John Hefferman) and later on his wife Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay) and daughter Adelaide (Anya McKenna-Bruce). The house is not in great condition though liveable.
However there are tensions which show up at the dinner table when Adelaide makes a small mistake. More telling are the sexual problems between Linus and Marianne a cause of tension that’s caught up with the pressure put on them by Bishop Malachi (John Lynch) and the stories circulating about the house being built on an old monastery where fanatical Christian monks carried out atrocities supposedly taking them closer t
Christopher Smith’s “The Banishing,” premiering today on Shudder after a brief fest run, has the stately style and tone of a classical period piece, but it’s also kind of insane. It blends what one would expect from something like “The Haunting of Bly Manor” (and there’s a dose of Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus” along the way too) with elements taken from the giallo kitchen sink, and it all disappears in the British fog. Despite a few strong production values and performances, Smith’s film simply crosses the lane into incoherency and not the surreal David Lynch-esque kind of incoherency that sets a tone, but the this-needed-a-better-edit-or-rewrite kind of incoherency that gets people wondering what else is on Shudder.
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