SACRILEGE / DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY: DAVID CREED / STARRING: TAMARYN PAYNE, EMILY WYATT, SIAN ABRAHAMS, NAOMI WILLOW / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW
No matter how big or small you are in life, everyone has a fear of something and new film, coming all the way from the city of Bristol, should have warned us one of our fears was seeing Sacrilege. Okay; that may have been a bit harsh towards the film at first glance as Sacrilege had both positives and negatives making it an interesting concept.
The film is directed by award-winning David Creed, who is known for his past work in TV advertising involving known brands such as Orange, Renault, L’Oreal and so on. Creed has been working alongside Bad Blood Films’ Mark Kenna who is the co-founder, CEO and producer; he’s a name known in the film industry for over 20 years.
Sacrilege starts off with a group of four friends – Kayla, Trish, Blake, and Stacey – who are heading to a lodge for the weekend as their accommodation is placed in the middle of nowhere, which sounds just about right for a horror title. As you’d expect all four plan to have some fun thanks to gin and a cheeky bit of weed while having some girly time together. Already the acting between the four was hardly inspiring and hard to watch at times.
The four girls then bump into a local lad who insists that they join him at a ritual event in a dark forest. The visit to the ritual camp becomes a regrettable decision as all four encounter their own personal fears later on in the film. You have to bare in mind when watching this movie that it had a very low budget, and you have to admire the people behind it who are trying at the best of their ability. That thought comes into it when you find out the fears some of these characters have including the fear for dogs. We mean dogs… really?
The low budget talent didn’t fail when it came to the special effects team, who display some fine FX including a couple of scenes of what Stacey suffers from post-ritual. All of this builds up to the girls having to stick together to fight their fears, which creates an interesting and surprising ending.
Sacrilege is not a film that will get you on the edge of your seat, but you have to remind yourself that a first film from a movie company based in Bristol has not done too a bad job.
