The director Mark Neveldine deploys queasy lighting and a trembling score, but his best choice is to let Ms. When she’s sent home, a Vatican cardinal (Peter Andersson) arrives to perform an exorcism she could be the Antichrist, and the church keeps an eye out for that sort of thing. Moving to a psychiatric hospital only brings on more violence (and mind-reading skills). People are hurt around her her military-man dad (Dougray Scott) and boyfriend (John Patrick Amedori) fret ravens keep turning up. Dudley works up an expressive arsenal of gestural detail and shades of mood that are worth watching amid the film’s rigmarole of satanic possession.Īngela goes from sunny to malevolent through freak events that leave her in a coma, which proves temporary. Evil often takes the same tired forms in horror movies, but in “ The Vatican Tapes” it shines - and glowers and shrieks - when it takes the form of Angela (Olivia Taylor Dudley), a suitable candidate for exorcism.
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