Original Post Date: 12.01.18
Great quote by Megan Reed from The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018): “When you die, you die. End of story.”
I watched this trailer this morning and made me want to watch the movie asap. (So I did.) An ex-cop down on her luck (tortured souls are my favorite), working graveyard at the morgue? And one of the corpses being possessed by a demon and healing itself when killing people? Yaz! Yaz! Yaz! All that stuff is my shiiiiiiiit!
*** WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD ***
The Possession of Hannah Grace tells the story of ex-cop Megan Reed who is dealing with emotional trauma, addiction, and a relationship breakup, all while starting a new entry level job at the city morgue as a coroner’s assistant… just imagine this poor woman receiving corpses, logging them into the system, taking initial wound pictures and fingerprints, all that sort of thing, and on the graveyard shift all by herself. Poor Megan, poor, poor Megan.
Yes, this movie focuses on Megan but, who the hell is Hannah Grace then? Hannah is the unlucky girl who ends up at Megan’s job, hauled inside a body bag. They said she was found on an alley when someone was trying to slice her up –the perpetrator ran away, they said. Hannah’s body was a total mess, burnt, sliced, contorted, yet beautiful to watch. The corpse’s skin was nice and smooth-looking, it belonged to a young woman.
Hannah was the daughter of Grainger, a guy desperate enough to heal his child that even resorted to have the Church perform an exorcism on her. [Side note: This is where I got confused and maybe need to re-watch the movie when it becomes a streamer but, was this Hannah’s first exorcism? Or the latest one? Was she sick with depression and anxiety as her father confessed to Megan? Or was the dad so ignorant and scared that he tried to “exorcise” her mental illness “demons” via religion? Or was she really possessed by an old-school demon? Confusion.]
On the failed exorcism of Hannah, the evil force inside her killed one priest and only injured another thanks to her dad acting quickly and smothering her before she could continue killing. This happened three months ago. Today, Hannah’s fresh corpse was brought to the morgue. Hannah’s evil force was still inside her and she was still killing people and her dad was still trying to destroy the body by burning her and slicing her up, but the thing was, Hannah’s body healed itself when she killed people. (The more the corpse got hurt, the more she killed.)
Back at the morgue in present day, all the juicy aspects of having a three-month old, fresh-looking, mysterious yet gorgeous possessed corpse shined like nobody’s business. It was fun to watch Hannah’s wounds heal as she killed, and it was entertaining to watch Megan feel like she was going crazy.
The movie ended as it had to. Megan realized she was not seeing things (our broken heroine will be okay), and regained her trust in herself by throwing Hannah into the incinerator (our cool villain sadly dies). When you die, you die.
End of story,
- Marath
P.S. Sexiest poster ever:
