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Jessabelle

Play trailer Poster for Jessabelle PG-13 Released Nov 7, 2014 1h 30m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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A young woman (Sarah Snook) returns to her childhood home to recuperate from a car accident and encounters a long-tormented spirit that refuses to let her escape.
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Jessabelle hints at a bright future for star Sarah Snook, but clouds her performance with a cliched -- and tasteless -- storyline.

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Monica Castillo Movie Mezzanine Perhaps the best character in Jessabelle are the bayous themselves. Rated: C+ Nov 26, 2014 Full Review Scott Tobias The Dissolve The more complicated it gets, the less scary it becomes. Rated: 2/5 Nov 10, 2014 Full Review Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture As the film racks up incidents and characters and explanations, the mystery dissipates. It's a strange spectacle: a horror film that spends as much time dismantling suspense as it does building it. Nov 7, 2014 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Flounders with uncertainty of direction as it touches on socio-economic depression, demons, vengeance, race and culture but never fleshes anything out. Everything feels like an after-thought as opposed to being cohesively constructed and interlaced. Dec 14, 2019 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Although a pleasantly peculiar finale at last breaks free of its quagmire of cliché, it can't quite make up for the inert build-up, as well as a handful of illogical details that annul any of the film's more successful moments. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 6, 2019 Full Review Molly Henery The Blogging Banshee If you're looking for a classic ghost story that also has a unique storyline, this is the movie for you. It had all the elements of a great ghost story, but it also added a little something extra with the voodoo. Rated: 8.5/10 Nov 2, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Nikki J Nah, this isn't it! Blumhouse do better! Skeleton Key plot sadly makes way more sense than this. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Abigail C Jessabelle is actually a really good classical horror movie, with ghosts and vudú. I actually liked the movie, it might frustrate a great load of people because Jessabelle didn't actually deserve to be killed, but they don't understand that that's actually how the carachters in the movie work, they're participants of this ritual and they don't think they're doing anything wrong, the carachter Preston confirms that when he's driving with Jessie to the house. The mom carachter thinks what she did is right disregarding anyone's opinion, the ending may piss off many but at the end it's a good movie and it keeps you hooked till the end. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/06/24 Full Review Mizzo D killer movie! i felt like it should've been longer the vhs tape past to present was just awesome, i was drawn in the whole movie would watch again for sure, 7.5/10 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/27/24 Full Review Elvis D Nuevamente, Blumhouse presenta otra historia de fantasmas que si bien no es del todo original, logra captar algo de atención. En el caso de Jessabelle, tenemos una historia de fantasmas simple y el argumento de la película tiene un gran parecido con The Skeleton Key. Nuestra querida protagonista Jessabelle es alguien que inocentemente regresa a la casa de sus padres sin saber que le espera algo relacionado con la verdad sobre su nombre. La protagonista es un personaje con la que se puede empatizar muy fácilmente de principio a fin. La película incluso viene con un giro argumental bastante sorprendente que le da una cierta renovación a esta historia sobre espíritus y vudú. El guion es bastante bueno y mantiene la atención del espectador hasta descubrir porque sucede al final. Jessabelle es al final una muy buena película y otro de los proyectos interesantes que Blumhouse ha producido. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 9/10. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/02/23 Full Review Nick S Oh no! I'm so so scared! The same predictable ending of every voodoo movie ever!? I'll never be the same again! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/13/23 Full Review Briti **Spoilers Ahead** Okay, so the movie started off well overall. The main actress who played Jessie did a phenomenal job as her character, but the overall plot was rubbish. So Jessie who never got to have a proper mother or father and was raised by an aunt ends up losing everything. The movie starts rolling and it just doesn't freaking stop. Loss after loss, nothing good is going for Jessie. At the beginning of the film she lost her boyfriend and her child in a horrible accident. Later on she loses who she thinks is her ‘father' to a horrible accident. Not to mention she lost her ‘mother' we thought before she even got the chance to know her. the aunt who raised her is dead and she has almost nobody except Preston on her side. But then when she needs him most he isn't able to be there because Jessabelle (the skanky apparition who wants nothing more than to take everything from Jessie) injured him and he was sent to the hospital. Eventually, Jessie loses her own life for the sake of the real daughter of Kate Laurent and a character named Moses (Kate cheated on her husband) like it's all a load of rubbish. At the end she asks the ghosts of Moses and Kate what they want from her, and their answer? "Payback". Payback?! For what?! Jessie was an innocent child who had nothing to do with any of this. Did Jessie have an affair or murder anyone? No. So what was her crime that caused her to deserve such a fate? By the end of the movie I was pissed. I'm all for ghosts in films getting revenge on people who actually wronged them, but guess what, they already killed Leon. Jessie was an innocent, so by killing her they are just as bad as Leon and maybe even more so because they were the ones who had the affair. Did Kate just expect her husband to be okay with the fact that she was sleeping with someone else and had that persons baby? The plot was completely nonsensical and was tied together loosely by a thread that was struggling to hold it all together, if I could give it a zero star rating I would. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young woman (Sarah Snook) returns to her childhood home to recuperate from a car accident and encounters a long-tormented spirit that refuses to let her escape.
Director
Kevin Greutert
Producer
Jason Blum, Paul Young, Peter Principato
Screenwriter
Robert Ben Garant
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
Lionsgate Films, Principato-Young Entertainment, Blumhouse
Rating
PG-13 (Terror|Sequences of Horror Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 7, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 13, 2015
Runtime
1h 30m
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