Jessabelle

PG-13

Released Nov 7, 2014

1 hr. 30 min.

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

List

29%

35 Reviews

Tomatometer

30%

10,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

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.

Read More

Read Less

Watch on Fandango at Home

Premiered Apr 02

Buy Now

Fandango at Home

Prime Video

Apple TV

Rent Jessabelle on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV.

Critics Consensus

Jessabelle hints at a bright future for star Sarah Snook, but clouds her performance with a cliched -- and tasteless -- storyline.

Read Critics Reviews

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

Audience Member

Pitiful, disorienting, ignorant and boring - I'd save your time for something better like jamming scissors up your nose or crawling ontop of broken glass. This movie was a massive disappointment - the concept was great but the execution was awful in every way. We're forced to care about this boring girl who seems apathetic most of the time and believe that she's stuck in a wheelchair, which normally I wouldn't care about except even the director didn't want us to notice the wheelchair with the constant extremely close zoom ins on every person on screen - the tops of peoples heads didnt exist in most of the shots; that's how close up it is. The jiggling of the camera didn't do it's job during action sequences, making me notice how fake it is while wanting to throw up. The characters make nonstop dumb and unrelateable decisions and as we trudge along towards the end, all of a sudden I'm getting a racist "plot-twist" summary. Voodoo shouldn't be used if you don't understand it and are only using it as "ooOoo spooky evil magic!!" It's ignorant and played out at this rate. Also plot twists aren't supposed to be a "did you believe that? Haha GOTCHA" but if you wanted to shock the audience, you actually need to lay out the groundwork. Pulling a game of thrones "nah dany was evil the entire time see?" and latching onto random strings to prove this insanity is nonsensical. You know what? It's like paranormal activity. BORING and just weirdly disrespectful. Thanks for killing some brain cells

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

Full Review

Audience Member

This movie doesn't seem to be about the jump scares so much as the building tension. I kinda figured out the story by halfway through, so they might have been a little more discrete with their breadcrums. The main set is just perfect, flashbacks provide contrast, side characters confuse the watcher only for a little while before the secret is revealed. I'd watch it again.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

Full Review

Read all reviews

Post a rating

Kevin Greutert

Director

Sarah Snook

Jessie

Mark Webber

Preston

Joelle Carter

Kate

David Andrews

Leon

Ana de la Reguera

Rosaura

Show Less Cast & Crew

Show More Cast & Crew

56%

51%

Insidious: Chapter 3

39%

57%

Insidious: Chapter 2

6%

24%

Ouija

68%

52%

The Visit

TRAILER

for The Visit

20%

58%

The Vatican Tapes

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Critics Consensus: Interstellar and Big Hero 6 are Certified Fresh

View more photos

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

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
Executive Producer: Robert Ben Garant, Jerry P. Jacobs, Matthew Kaplan
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

Most Popular at Home Now