Back from Hell (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: N/A
• Country: Italy
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2078613/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/back_from_hell
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 97 min
• Writer: Leonardo Araneo
• Director: Leonardo Araneo
• Cast: Giovanni Araneo, Aran Bert, Giovanni Guidelli
• Keywords: priest, countryside, paranormal,

	2.9/10
	29% – Audience

Back from Hell Storyline

Six ex-classmates decide to spend some holidays together. To enjoy a short rest period and some amusement, they rent a manor house in the countryside, upon where to forget the raving madness of the city life. After they get to know the priest living in the adjoining church, the group moves into the house. Very soon, the convivial mood progressively deteriorates, while in the house strange phenomena start to happen, apparently paranormal. The journey turns into a nightmare when Giorgio, one of the mates, starts to have aberrant behaviors, until he shows evident signs of what properly seems a diabolic possession. While Alessandro, his best friend, tries to find a scientific and rational explanation to the happenings, the other friends trust in Father Elia, the priest. He feels Giorgio is surely possessed by the devil, and tries to exorcise him. But in the end, all the people will figure out that what is happening goes over their ability to understand, and moreover, their possibility to control.

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IT WANTS SOMETHING

A group of six friends take a vacation to film an isolated 16th century monastery build upon an ancient Roman pagan site. There is still a priest (Giovanni Guidelli) who lives there. The six people consists of George (Roberto Zibetti) a man with an annoying accent. He believes in ancient astronauts which irks the heck out of Sarah (Manuela Parodi) who is expecting. She has numerous issues with Andrew (Marco Quaglia) the father who she believes secretly doesn’t want the child. Claudia (Jennifer Mischiati) is our token eye candy along with her boy friend and atheist Alex (Marco Vannini Gandolfi) who does not believe in spooks. Mark (Aran Bertetto) spends much of his time behind the camera of our found footage film.

The beginning part was interesting and I was getting into the film as there was a number of diverse discussions going on plus weird things happening during the seance/Ouija board experiments. I was most impressed with the rapid time in which “the spirit” responded, unlike its American counterparts, even when built upon ancient Native-American burial grounds. Most likely their Ouija board was using modern space age graphene receptors. The spirit could understand English and then would spell out answers in Latin. At this point I was loving the film. I couldn’t figure out why the hate. Then it happened about midway through…

The exorcism scene had me in tears. It was the funniest exorcism since “Repossessed.” The acting was bad as our victim gnarled his face, drooled, and spoke in unintelligible Latin palindromes. After this, film went down hill with a major WTF scene with a bad prop and really unnecessary plot/shock point that in actuality didn’t work well. In fact the whole second half needed to be tightened up. I like where the plot went, I didn’t like how it got there and the bad execution of scenes.

Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity.

Italy gets in on the ‘found footage’ fad

A group of fiends decide to rent a county side manor house for the 4-day holiday weekend, but its not long before unexplained supernatural forces leave one of their number seemingly possessed . A priest that happens to live next door rushes to help in this Italian offering to the booming, some would say played out, ‘found footage’ horror film, that I saw via Redbox under the U.S. title of “Back From Hell”

Reasonably well-acted even if the story is a tad trite. Other pluses are beautiful scenery and a few,albeit admittedly seldom, tense scenes. This is a tad offset by an ending that ,while I shall not spoil, leaves something to be desired. All in all, the film was fairly watchable but ultimately forgettable

Sleep-inducing possession flick

BACK FROM HELL is an Italian stab at the found footage genre, concerning a group of friends who hole up at a historic house in the countryside and soon encounter a sinister demonic presence who takes over one of their own. The viewer is thereafter subject to endless shaky-cam footage, those clichéd camera ‘problems’, and lots of dodgy acting.

The odd choice was made to shoot this in English with an Italian cast, all of whom struggle with thick accents and the vagueness of the script. I actually found the whining voices to be pretty annoying and I wanted to punch out the characters after about half an hour in their company. The cinematography is poor, with 90% of the film taking place in the dark so you can’t see what’s meant to be happening, and nothing much happens. BACK FROM HELL seems to go on forever until an abrupt and unsatisfying climax, and it really is a patience tester for audiences.