2020 · horror · thriller · supernatural
The Assent
Directed by Pearry Reginald Teo1h 29m2020
After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform an exorcism, the devil will soon take full control of his boy.
Our read: The Assent (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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