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The Horror Pieces are There But Don't Quite Fit
Chris Kavan - wrote on 01/07/2015
A kind of Southern gothic tale that tries to mix in just about every horror element (voodoo, haunted house, tortured past, dreams vs reality) but because it can't settle on one thing, it never finds quite the right tone and gets bogged down because of it.
Jessabelle opens with a bang - literally - as a young woman and her boyfriend are involved in a car accident. The now wheelchair-bound Jessie (Sarah Snook) is returned to her childhood home to recuperate. Her somewhat unhinged father (David Andrews) takes care of her while she also reconnects with a childhood friend, Preston (Mark Webber). But, of course, things can't be so simple. When she discovers a box under her bed containing a videotape from her long-dead mother (Joelle Carter), it seems to contain a warning about "someone …
