Review of Jessabelle (2014) by Abb J — 10 Nov 2014

Jessabelle: It's a hackneyed but effective horror setting - a young woman recovering from a car accident returns to her estranged father's creepy waterfront house in the Louisiana bayou (or what we natives call a camp), only to be haunted by a tormented spirit, old VHS tapes from her late tarot card-reading mother and other spooky voodoo activity.

(Chicken blood alert!) Despite also being released straight to video/on demand, this low budget flick actually has an interesting story, a visually-compelling aforementioned setting, and a twist ending, that while not totally original, is clever enough to make up for the usual cheap scares.