Gates of Darkness

The possessed son never changes his costume and is never seen to be battling anything important. It would seem to be truths hidden which by his possession are revealed. Unfortunately, mom's (Adrien Barbeau) suicide, at a family picnic of all things for all to witness, was surreal to say the least. Everyone just stood there and watched her hang herself. You'd have thought they were all filming it on their phones. No one made a single move to save her! The mention that the movie is based on facts doesn't surprise me a bit. Child molestation, whether at the hands of a family member or a priest, is very much a real-world problem. So bad acting or not, it's a hard act to follow. The fact is, true evil is all around and no one wants to admit it much less confront it. The movie takes the concept of a well-to-do family with close ties to "the church" yet all the characters act like they just met. It's a sort of hodgepodge cast with a very hard to confront plot. The son's (played by Tobin Bell) possession, IS the plot. The producers tried hard to show this without spending a gazillion dollars on-screen to do so. Most reviewers hated this movie simply because it did not give them what they wanted, entertainment. That alone seems to me the problem with people in general. They do everything as if they should be rewarded in some way and if they aren't, they attack or denigrate their own…

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