Jena Malone is Grace, a young ophthalmologist who heads to a convent in the far north of Scotland after learning that her brother has died under mysterious circumstances. The monastery where her brother died has existed since the 12th century, when it was founded by crusader knights to seek redemption after bloody campaigns. You wouldn’t believe it, it’s obviously one of those haunted monasteries, and while Grace doesn’t want to believe that her brother killed another priest, then himself, the head of the monastery is convinced that he was possessed by some kind of demon. Father Romero (Danny Huston), the pope’s envoy, also arrived at the monastery to investigate what happened, and “Consecration” very quickly turns into one of those non-vegetative, formulaic and rather pointless horror movies.
In addition to the current events in the monastery, we constantly have flashbacks to Grace’s childhood, and occasionally we follow some creepy quasi-religious rites from the 12th century, because of which, to get an idea, there is apparently a curse there even today. And it seems that Grace is not the only one who has constant hallucinations, terrifying nightmares after arriving at the convent because the nuns who live there also have dark visions. Almost everything he could, director and screenwriter Christopher Smith messed up here.
And while this British man showed promise at the beginning of his career (solid films such as Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death and Detour), his last horror film “The Banishing”, just like “Consecration”, was very weak and in in both cases, he didn’t even bother to insert something original, new and fresh into a story that had already been seen countless times. Here, even the otherwise solid Jena Malone is unconvincing, but what could she possibly do with a character whose motivations are not even clear to her. At first, Grace seems like a grieving sister trying to find out what happened to her brother, but soon it turns out that everything that happens there is actually connected to her and the childhood traumas that she apparently suppressed, so at the same time Grace tries to find out who she really is. alone.