Ashes (IX) (2018)
3/10
Remember When She Used To Pat Us On The Head Like A Dog???
18 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
So Aunt Marian dies, and the family has her ashes sent to their home. Some flashback scenes showing how the family, especially the kids, used to torment poor Aunt Marian when she was alive.

And then the family debates on what to do wiht Poor Aunt Marian's ashes.

And while that's going on,, strange things start happening to the family.

I do love how scenes from Night Of The Living Dead are playing on the TV on more than one occasion. Really should have spent the time I spent watching this movie watching Night of The Living Dead again. A true classic!!!

When the daughter has boyfriend problems, they start talking about How Marian's ashes were the cause of it!!! So they make a SPIRIT BOARD out of a cutting board and egg slicer at home. And boy do they start having all kinds of fun with that!!!

But then they decide that they have to get rid of the BOARD. They bury that thing according to the instructions on GOOGLE!!! And then they call CHIP AND RONNY!! THE POLTER-GUYS!!! For some paranormal investigating!!!! When they hypnotize grandma, AUNT MARIAN'S SPIRIT SHOWS UP AND STARTS STRANGLING HER!!! OMG AUNT MARIAN'S SPIRIT STRANGLED HER TO DEATH.

-1 STAR FOR CHIP AND RONNY NOT BEING ABLE TO PREVENT THE STRANGLING OF GRANDMA!!!

So the conversation with Chip and Ronny goes on pretty much like nothing happened to Grandma after this strangling event. They're like oh grandma is dead, oh well. That's a pretty lame story moment. So they decide to have another seance, to contact Marian again, before she can kill MOM/ELLEN.

And of course the finale is pretty much a hot mess, as AUNT MARIAN manifests into ELLEN and starts going berzerk on the family and CHIP AND RONNY. Then UNCLE JAY gets possessed also but DAD COMES HOME JUST IN TIME TO SAVE THE DAY....BUT OF COURSE NOT BEFORE MARIAN HAS KILLED ELLEN AND UNCLE JAY!!

-1 Star for the whole family dying really and it's like...no biggie...

And that's pretty much where it ends. The film was actually shot pretty well. But the story was pretty bad, especially in the latter half. 3/10
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