28 March 2014
Crafty Essex boy Robin Hill (fantastic as a folk-song-crooning killer in Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace) is the main reason to watch Elliot Goldner’s low-budget found-footage horror flick. Hill plays atheist techie Gray, hired to support a Vatican investigation into a haunted West Country church.
The banter between him and one of the priests (Gordon Kennedy’s cynical Scot) is funny and unsettling. And the stark church is a winner. But once things start to go bump in the night it all gets yawnsome. The final insult is an Italian maverick who doesn’t sound Italian, probably because he’s played by an actor from Finsbury Park.
