Macabre Movie Mausoleum: The Chosen

Happy New Year’s you precocious grave toppers and tombstones. I may be a little late with that but it takes time getting rid of the jolly fat man. Now that we’ve entered a new year… nothing has changed with your mundane lives. Another year has passed, another day has dawned, and here we are ready for another entry into the Macabre Movie Mausoleum.

“The Chosen” (2015)

Director: Ben Jehoshua

Stars: Kian Lawley, Elizabeth Keener, Angelica Chitwood

The Chosen Cover
The Chosen Cover

No this isn’t about people of the Jewish faith, or as they like to be known as ‘The Chosen’. This is about a young uncle trying to save his niece from a demonic possession that he’s partially responsible for. Ready for the confusing part? He and his niece live with his mom, who lives with her parents and brother, but his niece’s mom, his sister, doesn’t live with them because she’s an addict. His mom and her brother are both alcoholics but that’s better than drugs, so the little girl can live with them. Got it? Good, because I’m not repeating that.

The Chosen Guy
The Chosen Guy

Kian Lawley plays Uncle Cameron, and I predict he’ll get his shot at stardom, but we’ll see if he can capitalize on it. Cam accidentally exposes his niece, Angie, to a demon when he inadvertently interrupts a sacrifice. Now with Angie possessed, he learns from the woman he interrupted that he must sacrifice 6 members of Angie’s bloodline to keep her soul from being eternally damned.

As far as plots go, it isn’t the most inventive, but it’s serviceable, and what’s more surprising for a b-level movie, is it’s fairly well acted (even if the most well-known actor Chris Gann  who plays Uncle Cameron’s Uncle Joey gave a forgettable performance). I hold child actors to the same standards as their adult counterparts, so typically they don’t meet expectations, but Angie’s role, played by Mykayla Sohn, was kept to a bare minimum with very little dialogue, so whether or not she can act didn’t detract from the overall enjoyment of the movie.

The Chosen Girl
The Chosen Girl

The smartest thing they did was keep the special effects to a minimum and within their budget, so that whatever effects they did use enhanced the movie, except the blood on nanny’s nose, that shit was fake as hell!

All things considered this was a surprising movie that I wasn’t prepared to like as much as I did. The plot and acting combined into what should have been a sleeper hit, but that is more a result of the company not being established enough to push it properly. 

You won’t experience anything too terrifying beyond the expected jump scares, but The Chosen is a solid movie that deserves to be talked about more than it has been. And seriously, what’s up with that nun?

The Chosen Nun
The Chosen Nun

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Alex Azar is an award winning author bred, born, and raised in New Jersey. He had aspirations beyond his humble beginnings, goals that would take him to the skyscrapers of Metropolis and the alleys of Gotham. Alex was going to be a superhero. Then one tragic day, tragedy tragically struck. He remembered he wasn't an orphan and by law would only be able to become a sidekick. Circumstances preventing him from achieving his dream, Alex's mind fractured and he now spends his nights writing about the darkest horrors that plague the recesses of his twisted mind and black heart. His days are filled being the dutiful sidekick the law requires him to be, until he can one day be the hero the world (at least New Jersey) needs. Until that day comes, he can be reached via email azarrising@hotmail.com or azarrising.com

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