CONSECRATION Trailer: New Christopher Smith Horror Flick, Starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston, in Theaters Next Friday

In CONSECRATION, after the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened.  Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past. 

Said Smith: “I had seen this amazing scene from a Czech film called Valley of The Bees in which a Priest willingly walks backwards to a hole in the floor to his own death, an d I wondered if we could build a film around a character who, for every step back they take, a sin is forgiven.”

 

Of the director, Malone said, “Chris has got an incredible energy, one of the best energies of a director on set that I have ever worked with. He’s extremely giving and creative and thinks on his feet.” Said Huston, “Chris has been able to create this insane and beautiful world. There is a strange beauty in the nuns. They look like they are made out of marble, and then a splatter of blood on them – there is some sort of grace to that in a gothic way.

 

Huston said, “I always wanted to play a priest, so that was an immediate attraction. And then as I progressed (through the script) I saw similarities to the films that I love, like Black Narcissus, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist – and how poignant religion is and the tapestry of religion... the myths and tales that are so much of our make - up. I even used the same glasses and Max Von Sydow used in The Exorcist – a little nod to those films.”