When making a movie about creepy nuns, definitely name your main character “Grace.” Why not? You’ve already got creepy nuns! This is no place for subtlety. Though the trailer for Consecration does only hint at what might really be going on at Mount Saviour Convent, where Grace (Jena Malone) has traveled after the deeply suspicious death of her priest brother.
Buy the Book
Echo
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, director and co-writer Christopher Smith (Black Death, The Banishing) said of Malone’s character, “She is very much an atheist, and her brother’s a priest. Not believing her brother would kill himself or kill anyone else, she goes to the nunnery to investigate and gets drawn very much into the story, shall we say.”
Very much. According to the movie’s summary, she’s going to uncover “murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own past.” She’s also going to spend a lot of time as a probably unwilling participant in an endless game of peek-a-boo with a young nun who one can only assume is also quite troubled.
Smith told EW, “I wanted to make a movie about religion but do it seriously.” In the trailer, Danny Huston (The Proposition) provides some seriousness as a man sent by the Vatican to investigate the murder. But they’re all up against Janet Suzman as a scary mother superior, and I don’t know. My money might be on the nuns, whoever they’re worshiping.
Consecration is in theaters February 10th, and on VOD March 3rd.
