This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. A cell phone case and lipstick are used as a makeshift planchette as the girls scribble messages from the other side on a Big Chief tablet. When one of the students is found dead after the restroom conjuring, the girls believe they have awakened the Edelvine ghost, so they hold a seance in an attempt to contact their recently departed classmate. There is another MMA face-off during the climax which I have dubbed “Fists of Fluorescent Light Fixtures” as the ladies go at it mano a mano. Suki Waterhouse (“Assassination Nation”) plays new girl Camille Meadows who immediately bumps heads with mean girls leader Alice (Inanna Sarkis), the two get into it in the library leading to a Conor McGregor beatdown complete with martial arts sound effects. Too bad Tony Todd doesn’t show up whispering “Be My Victim” but if he did, I get the feeling he’d be met with “Ooh, gross” and end up on TikTok. They stare in the mirror chanting “Edelvine ghost rise up to us” while holding candles in what should be your first clue that the next 90 minutes will be filled with familiar tropes. The film opens with an ode to “Candyman” as a group of girls from the prestigious Edelvine Academy gather in the restroom at 3:15 am to conjure the ghost of a former student who is known to haunt the all-girls school. #Emergency seance candles plus#Simon Barrett wrote “You’re Next,” two of the “VHS” films, plus “The ABCs of Death” so it’s surprising that “Seance” is an uninspired rehash that borrows from an assortment of horror films.
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