Jessabelle (2014)

Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a horrific car accident, Jessabelle comes face to face with a long-tormented spirit that has been seeking her return -- and has no intention of letting her escape.

Director:

Kevin Greutert

Writer:

Robert Ben Garant

Stars:

Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Snook	...	Jessie
Joelle Carter	...	Kate
Mark Webber	...	Preston
David Andrews	...	Leon
Ana de la Reguera	...	Rosaura
Amber Stevens West	...	Dead Girl (as Amber Stevens)
Chris Ellis	...	Sheriff Pruitt
Brian Hallisay	...	Mark
Vaughn Wilson	...	Moses
Larisa Oleynik	...	Sam
Fran Bennett	...	Mrs. Davis
Paul Garrett	...	Christophe
Barbara Weetman	...	Nurse
Jason Davis	...	Surgeon
Lucius Baston	...	Mr. Woods

Storyline

Jessabelle "Jessie" Laurent is pregnant and accepts to move to the house of her boyfriend to raise a family of their own. However they have a car accident where her boyfriend and her baby die. Jessie is seriously wounded and trapped to a wheelchair, and the direction of the hospital asks her to contact her estranged father to help her. Leon Laurent brings his daughter to his house in Louisiana and lodges her in her mother's room. Jessie snoops around the room and finds a videotape where her mother Kate Laurent is pregnant and reads tarot cards to her. She tells that Jessie would never left Louisiana; she is attracted by water; and another woman wants her out of the house. However Leon arrives and destroys the tape. On the next morning, Jessie watches another videotape when her father is out of the house, and her mother talks about the man that had taught her to read cards, Moses. Jessie is haunted by the ghost of a woman and her father discovers the two other videotapes she has hidden...

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Plot Keywords:

southern gothic | wheelchair | baby coffin | voodoo cult | woman in a wheelchair | 

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Taglines:

Hear you scream.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of horror violence and terror

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 November 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ghosts

Filming Locations:

Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,998,359

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lionsgate, Blumhouse Productions, Artists First

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although the film is set in Louisiana, filming took place in Wilmington, North Carolina because an appropriate place for filming couldn't be found.

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Goofs

When Jessabelle's father picks her up and takes her to his home, the father pushes a large hutch out from in front of the room's door - suggesting that he shut the room up when her mother (Dad's wife) died early in her life. The bed coverings would be decades dirty as well as everything in the room.

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Quotes

Title Card: We will cast a shadow over you that cannot be distinguished from Fate. -"Legends of Haiti"

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Crazy Credits

We will cast a shadow over you that can't be distinguished from Fate. - "Legends of Haiti"

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Connections

Referenced in On Cinema: 'The November Man' and 'Jessabelle' (2014)

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Soundtracks

Instead
Written by Thomas Cusimano and Emily Alfstad
Performed by The Walcotts
Courtesy of The Walcotts

User Reviews

This is one of the few movies that creeped me out in the last year. The movie doesn't need to rely on jump scares to get you.

"It says you're not alone. There's a presence in the house with you. She wants you out of the house." Jessie (Snook) has everything going for her. She is the happiest she has ever been and moving in with her boyfriend whom she loves. In an instant her life is changed. Now alone and paralyzed from the waist down she has no choice but to move in with her father whom she hasn't seen in years. When she finds and plays tapes that her dead mother left for her strange and horrifying things start to happen. I have to open by saying that I am not a big horror movie fan. Mainly due to the fact that recently the horror genre has been Saw-like or found footage type. The ones that scare me are the more psychological movies that mess with your head rather than show you how many ways people can be chopped up. This falls into that category. The movie doesn't need to rely on jump scares to get you. The fact that this one in grounded in reality with the random scare thrown in really makes this work. Overall, if you like movies like The Conjuring or Insidious then you will like this as well. This is one of the few movies that creeped me out in the last year. I liked it. I give it a B+.