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Spirit in the Blood (2024)

Thriller | 98 minutes
2,75 4 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 98 minuten

Country: Germany / Canada

Directed by: Carly May Borgstrom

Stars: Summer H. Howell, Sarah-Maxine Racicot and Michael Wittenborn

IMDb score: 4,6 (627)

Releasedate: 7 November 2024

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Spirit in the Blood plot

A secluded community lives in the mountains. One day the body of a young woman is found. Some teenage girls decide to accept their inner dark powers and use them to fight the evil forces responsible for the murder.

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The film is mainly set in a forest. A frequently used setting for a horror film. A vast dark forest in which you can get lost. A forest has something original. Something mysterious too. A forest is sometimes centuries old and it is easy to imagine that such an immense forest harbors ancient powers. In Spirit in the Blood, a group of girls believe that a monster is lurking in the forest. The disappearance of a classmate fuels that idea. The group of girls do not want to be the next victim, submit to a spiritual ritual and defend themselves against the monster.

Although the story is about that, it is not really this story that is being told. In fact, the film is much more about the underlying story. About two girls who have trouble feeling at home in the world. Both do not belong to the popular groups at school. Both have to deal with a difficult home situation in their own way. Spirit in the Blood is a coming-of-age film in a horror setting. The rituals that the girls perform are of course intended to be able to take powerful action against the monster. However, the rituals do not only have that function. They also serve as a form of rebellion against the patronizing pressure that others (parents, church, school) impose on them.

Director and writer Carly May Borgstrom uses the horror motifs to actually tell a very earthly story. Although here and there scenes pass by that are clearly grafted onto the horror genre, Spirit in the Blood is not a pure horror film. At the end it is for a while. Then it actually becomes a bit brutal. Overall, the film does not float on brutal scenes but simmers much more in an ominous and suffocating atmosphere. Borgstrom succeeds in creating the feeling that something is lurking in the woods. Borgstrom also succeeds in taking that threat into the girls' world of experience and making it an interesting coming-of-age story.

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