The Communion Girl is a horror film directed by Victor Garcia starring Carla Campra.
Víctor García is a Barcelona-born director who has a solid career in Hollywood and horror films. He has directed films like Hellraiser: Revelations (2013).
And he knows what he’s doing.
So, as in marriage: for better or for worse.
About the Movie
Have you seen The Ring? Yes, it’s a remake of a Japanese movie that marked a before and after in the horror genre. Well, that girl who came out of television and ended up being known as “the girl from the well” created so much school that comparisons become inevitable with another girl who appears and, by chance or not, ends up in a well.
Thus, the problem with The Communion Girl is that we have the feeling of being reminded of common landscapes at all times, with the same references to the eighties and the same characters worn out by repetition. Yes, Hollywood has done it ad nauseam and nobody says nothing (well, yes, we’re sick of hearing it), and now it’s Spain’s turn with this good horror movie that, however, relies on so many common places of genre cinema that it ends up, in a way, being nothing but generic.
And it is very well directed, very well in terms of production and effects (Víctor García comes from the world of special effects). However, all this elaborate technique doesn’t shine in the script, which is content to be nothing more than a good horror and doesn’t bet, at any time, for novelty.
It’s a bit of a movie for fans in this sense: having a good time and almost forgetting it afterwards, because it hasn’t given us that something “new” with which to remember it and discuss it with friends, we need that great scene that makes it different so we can say: ah, that one where she came out of the well.
Here we have the crunching of limbs (also) and all the effects of Asian horror movies… but Spanish style, with its usual picturesqueness and its characters locked up in a town in the most rural Spain.
Technically good, very well directed (we insist), but all its efforts are limited to complying with the most classic schemes of the genre and, in that lack of innovation, it ends up drowning in… the well of oblivion.
Our opinion
A good job regarding production, makeup, effects, and interpretation. Piece by piece, it fits. In the collective imagination, we don’t believe it’ll leave any mark.
Storyline
Spain, late 1980s. Newcomer Sara tries to fit in with the other teens in this tight-knit small town in the province of Tarragona. If only she were more like her extroverted best friend, Rebe. They go out one night at a nightclub, on the way home, they come upon a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion. And that’s when the nightmare begins.
The Communion Girl Trailer
Director: Víctor García
Víctor García (born 4 December 1974 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film and television director. Garcia started working in the film industry as a special effect make up artist.
The Cast
Carla Campra
Marc Soler
Aina Quiñones
Carlos Oviedo
Olimpia Roch
María Molins
Xavi Lite
Anna Alarcón
Victor Solé
Daniel Rived
