Many say "The Exorcist" is one of the greatest horror films of all time. The William Peter Blatty novel was equally, if not more, scary. Evil spirits...or the devil himself going ape with possession and carnage. So, here we are. How do you spice up a tired plot, with predictable characters, and standard tropes? Exactly! Make it a remake of "The Exorcist." Except an adolescent Linda Blair is substituted by college babes doing pre-marital sex, and befriending entities they should have left alone. When this film is done, you will see the parallels to the 1973 classic. Our feature today is 2006's "Seance," directed by Mark L. Smith.
Many years ago, little girl Cara (Bridget Shergalis) is murdered by Spence (Adrian Paul) the maintenance guy in her building. Present day, that building serves as a college dorm. Thanksgiving is here and the dorm empties out except for three nubile college babes and two college hunks. Latin hunk Diego (A.J. Lamas) is banging sultry blonde Alison (Chauntal Lewis). The two nymphos are joined by roomies Lauren (Kandis Fay) and Melina (Tori White)...both major league babes. The three babes share a room that is haunted by benign ghost Cara. All good, right? Just wait. Also staying over Thanksgiving is Grant (Joel Geist). He's dashing, and Lauren is hot for him, even though he's on a dozen different psyche meds. Oh! Diego? A parapsychology major. Yep, Diego is not a good student and leads a seance to talk with Cara. As you probably can tell...this won't go swimmingly.
The seance brings back the evil Spence. Now the malicious maintenance guy, who was fried in the electric chair in 1975, has a new lease on life. I'm debating whether to talk about the parrot...Nah! Spence resumes his homicidal activities. Diego and Alison decide to have pre-marital sex and Spence joins in, you'll see...but this won't go well for Alison. With Alison now missing, you will just love what happens to her soon, all the others search for her. The surviving babes and hunks figure out Spence is back and rely on Diego's knowledge to do another seance and try to trap Spence. Alas, Diego is a C minus student and what he does is such a bad idea, we just wait for the carnage that follows. It is such a bad idea, some of you may begin pulling for Spence. The babe-factor is impressive, and so is the hunk factor. Sadly, no one is too beautiful to die horribly in this film.
Will the babes and hunks get a clue and figure out seances are not a good idea? Just how bad was Diego's idea? Here is a clue...think poultry. Just what does Spence do to the naked and aroused Alison? Sound mediocre? Perhaps...but when you figure out this is just an unambitious remake of "The Exorcist," and a far better film than the Richard Burton disaster "Exorcist II: The Heretic," you may enjoy "Seance."
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