The Crucifixion is a mystery horror film that has been released since 2017. This film was directed by a French director named Xavier Gens whose career is no doubt in handling horror films. Call it his works such as Cold Skin (2017) and Frontier (2007), which were quite successful in getting a positive response from critics. Seeing Xavier's previous works, of course, I hope The Crucifixion is crazier than other horror films. But is my hope true?
The Crucifixion tells the story of a journalist named Nicole Rawlins (Sophie
Cookson) who is assigned to cover a story about the death of sister Adelina
Marinescu (Ada Lupu), a nun who was allegedly killed by her priest because she
was thought to be possessed by a demon, or possessed English. For this
incident, the priest and 4 of his sisters who participated in the exorcism
ritual were finally imprisoned on charges of murder. The case ended there
because the priest who was considered guilty and the nun who was the victim
had also been buried. However, according to Nicole, there was something odd
about this incident, so she decided to find out for herself what happened to
Marinescu's sister.
Long story short, Nicole then went to interview the priest who was suspected
of being the main cause of sister Marinescu's death. However, when asked, the
priest even denied that he killed Marinescu's sister. He believes that at that
time the nun was indeed possessed by a very evil demon so he was forced to
crucify her and not feed her for 3 days to speed up the exorcism process. He
even got the name of the demon possessing his body so his exorcism process was
about to finish. But when the exorcism process was about to end, Bishop Gornik
suddenly came and immediately stopped everything so that the exorcism failed
and finally the devil took sister Marinescu's life while on the way to the
hospital.
Hearing the explanation from the priest, the mystery of this death widens and
that's where the storyline of this film begins.
The Crucifixion is a film with a very thick mystery horror genre. From the
beginning of this film, it can be seen clearly that the mystery horror genre
is really good, for example, during the scene in the first minutes of the
film. The initial scene showed a nun who was possessed and then crucified, but
because the public thought that this was all nonsense, the priest became the
scapegoat and ended up in prison. So, from this incident, things started to
get strange, did the priest really exorcise demons, or did he just torture the
nun for no apparent reason?
As the film progresses, the answers to these various mysteries feel
increasingly blurry because later other events seem to say that sister
Marinescu was indeed killed by the devil. However, others say that it is the
priest alone who is wrong because he lacks experience in exorcising demons.
The concept of who is right and who is wrong makes us wonder what happened to
the nun.
So, along with the dominant mystery genre, this film also doesn't forget the
horror genre, which doesn't seem too enduring either. Some of the jumpscares
that were shown succeeded in making me surprised because the model of horror
films with exorcisms from the past has made me more afraid when compared to
other horror films. How can it be realistic, it's more like that if you see
someone exorcising demons, even if it's just in a movie. That's why expulsion
films like The Medium have succeeded in giving me goosebumps throughout the
film.
This film manages to tell about the consequences for people who doubt their
connection with God, that every human being's faith in their God must be
strong because if their faith is weak, the devil will always take his
opportunity to poison their minds with hatred. The Crucifixion seems to make
us aware that God's help is always there for every human being, whether it's
for those of you who are religious or not, God always gives His help.
All of this was clearly illustrated by Nicole, who at first did not believe in
the existence of help from God, and because of her weak faith, she eventually
became an easy target for the demon that possessed the nun before.
This film is very fun to watch, the various weaknesses that appear are also
not so fatal that they don't dampen my mood to watch it to the end.
SCORE
7/10
The Crucifixion is worth it for you to watch, but try not to watch it alone
because the jumpscare that appears can make you have a heart attack instantly.
This film is also highly recommended for those of you who like the mystery
genre, some of the films have endings that are difficult to predict. So,
prepare your brain while watching it so you don't lose clues that will later
relate to solving the problem at the end of the film.
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