After Sub-Par Premiere, ANGELS & DEMONS Restores Measure of Hope, But ...
After a brutally bad premiere episode BLOOD VISIONS, ANGELS & DEMONS restores a measure of hope for the rescuscitation of A HAUNTING from its five year coma. While still plagued by bad writing and hyperactive CGI that undercuts atmosphere, the problems were not severe enough to obscure an interesting story. More substantive and animated, the interview clips meshed well among the narration and character re-enactment as compared to BLOOD VISIONS, where it felt more perfunctory -- more forced into a template.
The use of special effects, while obnoxious in transitioning between scenes (and during the climactic exorcism), were executed effectively in portraying the movement of the back-pack and the sleeptalking of the acutely possessed son, whose verbal regurgitation of an argument he was not present to hear had struck that first vital stranger-than-fiction note of the season. (The strength of the series has always been the depiction of events that parodoxically strain and...
What's Included
The episodes in this collection include:
- The Possessed
- The Presence
- The Wheatsheaf Horror (one of my favorites)
- The Unleashed
A Haunting
I own all of the seasons and I love them. This episode is no exception.
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