Day 7

The Crucifixion (2017)

Directed By Xavier Gens

The Crucifixion is the story of an American journalist who travels abroad to Romania to investigate a death that occurred during a controversial exorcism. Once she arrives in Romania, the journalist learns that *gasp* not everything is as it appears! Now our journalist friend, who of course is not just an atheist but who is actively anti-religion, must contend with superstition and faith as her own soul is on the line! This movie was aggressively average. The premise is neat, though I am not usually a fan of “based on a true story” premises because I find them exploitative. 

The idea of investigating an event that may be a human crime or super natural is pretty standard but can be executed well, in this case it was watchable but not exciting. This is a movie everyone has pretty much seen before but some of the acting was decent. It was weird that everyone spoke English in deep Romanian country. And the day is saved by the power of faith, so there you go. Overall, this is the most bland movie in this list yet, the only reason we didn’t hate it is because that would require having some kind of emotion and that wasn’t happening.

I would only recommend this movie if it was playing in the background while other things were happening. Maybe at a Halloween party where you don’t want the background noise to distract from the good time you’re having?