Year: 2005
Duration: 84 min
Directed by: Jeff Carney
Actors: Desiree Muse, Scott Nauman, Amelia Foster
Language: English
Country: USA
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Description: Tasked with caring for her ailing cancer-stricken mother, a young woman, Susan Logan (Desiree Muse), chooses to take her mind off of things by indulging in a little ghost hunting fun; more specifically, going to supposed haunted locations and attempting to record disembodied voices or E.V.P.s (Electronic Voice Phenomenon). In much the same way Michael Keaton’s “White Noise” used E.V.P.s as a launch pad for a much larger ghost thriller, this one functions in much the same way. It’s interesting to note that Carney himself admits that he was inspired to write “Siege of Evil” after screening “White Noise“, even giving it a nod on the film’s DVD cover and promotional material. I have to say, I think I liked this more.
After accidentally arriving upon an old out-of-the-way church located in some wooded area just off the highway, Susan and her paranormal enthusiast friend Barry (Jim Seward) decide it would be the perfect staging ground for a hunt. Susan’s husband, Mark (Scott Naumann), isn’t nearly as enthused about the idea of spirit tracking, thinking it all a bunch of nonsense, but he agrees to wait in the car for Barry and his wife as they do their thing. Fairly uneventful on the surface, the ghost hunting session ends with Susan being called away to deal with her deathly ill mother. Barry stays behind to gather the equipment and that’s when he realizes, fatally, that the church is more than just an empty building. Oh, no. Yes, as it turns out the abandoned church was actually a recreational area for a trio of long deceased (I think?) Satanists who linger on in the form of a demonic cloud/mist (cue from memory that scene from “Night of The Demons“; “Demons never existed in human form. They’re pure evil. They’re demons.”) So, okay, maybe they aren’t demons but they want to be. Regardless, it’s clear that whatever these things are, they’re really keen on freeing themselves from their spirit realm prison, and they see Susan as a means to achieve that end. It never specifically clarifies how that works but, hey, who cares? It works to move the story into its next phase.
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