After helping a priest who is also an exorcist, deal with his feeling of being possessed a therapist begins to have strange things happen around her.
This film feels like a number of low budget horror films I saw in the late 1970's and early 1980's where filmmakers did what they could to stretch the meger bucks they had. There is a certain way the films were shot, mood was at a maximum and effects at minimum. This made what happened more shocking. There was often long sequences of dialog where things were discussed that came into play later. THE EMBODIMENT feels exactly like those films and as a result I was filled with nostalgia.
At the same time because of the way it's shot the film has certain problems. There is a lot of talk and some of the sequences are a little static. The film at times feels a little slow, more so if you've only seen modern horror and the constant driving films that are prevalent now. When the film springs to life in the final third I wondered why things couldn't have moved along quicker.
Is it a bad film? No, but it is a kind of throw back that may struggle to find its audience. On the other hand if you want something decidedly not Hollywood the film is worth a try.
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