Based on James Herbert's 1983 novel Shrine (ntbcw similarly titled film The Shrine), Evan Spiliotopoulos directs, writes and produces under Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures banner.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Gerry
Cricket Brown - Alice
Katie Aselton - Natalie
William Sadler - Father Hagan
Marina Mazepa - Mary
Cary Elwes - Bishop Gyles
Summary
1845.
A woman accused of witchcraft is burned alive. Before dying, her spirit is transferred to a doll.
Present day, Boston.
Skeptical journalist Gerry reports the strange and unexplained. He finds the same plaything (dated February 31, 1845) inside a tree and purposely crushes object, unwittingly releasing spirit.
Alice, a deaf-mute, is drawn to the tree and suddenly speaks, claiming she's been cured by the Virgin Mary.
She begins to perform miracles, but is source of power divine or satanic?
Doubt weakens faith
Not awful, just incredibly stock.
There's no tension, gore or suspense, but cast take shit seriously.
Even unmasked, appearance of CG monster is rather boring and jump scares are at best average.
Mary Elnor (Alice's descendant) performed the same healings so people would feed her and Satan faith, giving licence to steal souls.
During the Feast of Immaculate Conception, cloaked apparition appears and very briefly has some fun.
Alice sacrifices herself to protect Gerry and Mary disintegrates.
But it's cool, as begging to the man upstairs brings her back to life, albeit once again a deaf-mute.
Oh my.
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