WHAT IT S ABOUT:
A teenage girl, Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse), moves into an exclusive, all-girls boarding school when a spot opens up after the sudden death of one of the students, Kerrie (Megan Best). What really happened to Kerrie, though, and what does her death, ruled a suicide by the police, have to do with rumours of a ghost haunting the halls of the school? And is Camille doomed to suffer the same fate?
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
There s something incredibly misleading about the main poster for
Seance. With its bright pink-purple title scrawled out above four teenage girls in school uniforms that look both bored and ready to kill, it s a poster that promises some teen-driven comedy horror in the vein of
Film Shorts // May 19-25, 2021
OPENING
Counter Column (PG-13) This Christian drama is about a drug dealer (Chris Gonzales) who tries to escape his life by joining the army. Also with Nathan-Andrew Hight, Michael Kaiser, Zane Castor, Ella Haslett, Madeleine Martinez, Diego Medina, and Lars Nielsen. (Opens Friday at Movie Tavern Hulen)
The Dry (R) Eric Bana stars in this thriller as a federal agent who returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral and has to reckon with a decades-old unsolved murder. Also with Genevieve O’Reilly, Keir O’Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, and William Zappa. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Availability
Select theaters, digital platforms, and VOD May 21
It’s hard to shake The CW of it all in the first half, as Camille (Suki Waterhouse), a mysterious young woman with a hazy past and suspiciously fast reflexes, arrives at Edelvine in the wake of a tragedy. A student named Kerrie (Megan Best) recently died after falling out of her dorm room window; the school’s scandal-adverse administration was quick to label the event a suicide, but the student body knows that Kerrie’s demise was the result of a prank gone horribly wrong. That, however, won’t stop a popular clique led by the imperious Alice (Inanna Sarkis) from hazing the new girl, leading to a growing suspicion that the girls’ slumber-party games and incantations they found on the internet have awoken something truly sinister.