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VOICE OF SHADOWS (2023)
3 stars
Miracle Media. Digital. 2nd December
VOICE OF SHADOWS is a low key supernatural horror set in a possibly haunted house – Gabriel (Guillermo Blanco) is married to Emma (Corrinne Mica). He also has a younger sister Celeste (María José Vargas Agudelo), who lives with them. Gabriel promised his mother on her deathbed to devote his life to God but in the opening scene he is at confession and admits to killing the man who raped his mum. Hence he had to raise his sister on his own.
They are barely surviving and making ends meet is a struggle. They all go and visit Emma’s Aunt Milda (Jane Hammill), who never had a family and is close to Emma. Somewhat eccentric, Milda claims she can communicate with the dead.
Late one night Emma gets a phone call to inform her that Milda has passed away – they are the only ones at the funeral. She gives the eulogy and says Milda ‘died’ and came back to life after a fire in which many children died…
Then Ernesto (who had been the person who had delivered the bad news) turns up at the church – and tells the trio that Emma is the sole beneficiary and has inherited her aunt’s large house. Milda expects her to live at the house and to keep up with all the callers that ring – people that escaped the aforementioned fire. Also she has left instructions, much to Gabriel’s chagrin, that he is not to stay or live there! Though the rather odd Ernesto says he is happy to look the other way…
Deciding to stay the night it is not long before the strange phone calls start with one of them saying ‘leave before everyone dies’. Will they fulfill the stipulations? Who is Ernesto really? What is going on? Who keeps ringing? What practices was Milda involved in? All is gradually revealed as the story progresses.
A slow but mostly effective and creepy ghost story, helmed by Nicholas Bain from his script, this was atmospherically shot by Neil Murphy. It does go full on over the top at the end but ultimately the whole thing feels a bit inconsequential.
Steve Kirkham
