‘Consecration’ Review: Jena Malone in a Convent Thriller With Scattershot Demons

You might go in expecting an “elevated” IFC Midnight version of “The Exorcist,” but “Consecration” is closer to “Black Narcissus” directed by Roger C…

about exorcism. Yet after decades of “Exorcist” knockoffs, moviegoers have been conditioned to anticipate the clichés of demonic possession. We expect them to be delivered, and in a certain way they always are. For moviemakers have been conditioned that way too.

There is only Grace , a British ophthalmologist who arrives to investigate the violent death of her brother, Michael . Did he murder Father Carroll in the chapel and then take his own life by plunging off a wuthering-heights cliff? That’s the official story. But Grace, a humanist skeptic who looks, in the early scenes, like a rather cautious denizen of Swinging London, doesn’t trust anything about religion. She’s more than willing to pin the crime on demons of the human kind.

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