Incarnate (2016)

Release date: 2016-12-02
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Brad Peyton
Production Co: IM Global, Blumhouse Productions, WWE Studios
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 5.2/10
Length: 1h 31min

Storyline

In New York, the boy Cameron lives with his Dutch mother Lindsey that is divorced from his alcoholic father Dan. One night, Cameron overhears a noise in the kitchen and is attacked by a homeless woman: however he kills the woman, breaking her neck. The Vatican representative Camilla summons the scientist Dr. Ember to help the boy that is possessed and the exorcism is not effective. Dr. Ember has the ability to enter in the mind of people possessed by demons and bring them back to reality in a dangerous procedure with the support of his team composed by Oliver and Riley. When Dr. Ember visits Cameron, he realizes that the boy is possessed by the insidious demon Maggie, who killed his wife and son in a car accident. Will Dr. Ember succeed in destroying Maggie and saving Cameron?

Plot Keywords

mother son relationship, possession, exorcism, wheelchair, video camera, man in a wheelchair, hundred dollar bill, jumping out a window, locked out, neck breaking, playground, choke hold, one word title, twist ending, death of son, wheelchair bound, exorcist, levitation, character says i love you, immolation

Short Review

It's all a wild jumble of half-baked, derivative ideas and arbitrary rules, all of which add up to a suspense-free horror narrative as murky as its lighting.