Your encouragement and constant feedback on how to improve our offering have only made our resolve and commitment to these ideals stronger. You will leave the theatres on a disappointed note.īusiness Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. Quoting the Book of Revelations 19:20 from the Bible, it says, "One will come to mimic Christ and that will be the end of the world". While the conclusion of the film isn't original by any stretch of the imagination, for a film of this genre, this twist is intriguing and elevates the end on an allegorical note. With moderate production quality, the found footage technique is acceptable. The performances are perfunctory and the characters do not touch you emotionally. The account picks up momentum in the last 30 minutes of the 90 minute narrative, which is rather late. With minimalistic horror tropes, the graph of the narration is flat in the first two acts. The plot lacks expositions and thus it is perplexing for the audience to decipher the tale. The script by writers Christopher Borrelli and Michael C. How he goes about it forms the crux of the story. He informs the Vatican and Cardinal Bruun is despatched to perform the exorcism. It is then that the local priest, Father Lozano (Michael Pena), assures Pete and Roger that he would help them.
Upon realising that they can't help her any further, the hospital discharges Angela. On her 25th birthday party, Angela accidentally cuts herself and thereafter for some inexplicable reason, she breaks into erratic behaviour which leads to a major car accident, leading to her being in comatose for 40 days.Īfter she miraculously recovers, unwittingly with telekinetic powers, she begins to eliminate people around her in the most gruesome manner. The narration begins with Cardinal Mattais Bruun (Peter Andersson) revealing his experience of performing exorcism on Angela Holmes (Olivia Taylor Dudley), a 25-year-old girl living in the US with her live-in boyfriend, Pete (John Patrick Amedori) and her religious father, Roger (Dougray Scott). Revealed in cinema-verite with documented footage, supposedly secured from the hospital's security camera that are now in the Church's top-secret archives, is what gives the film its name, "Vatican Tapes." At the very onset we are reminded that over the past 2000 years, the Church has been witnessing paranormal activities, but the records have been documented only for the past 1900 years.