If it had been fleshed out a little bit more, it could have been something great. There is no payoff to the story being told. The only issue with this segment is the ending, which doesn’t really go anywhere. It manages to tell a captivating story with enough professionalism and skill as to make it an entertaining watch. Nothing else really happens in this short.ĭevil is a decently acted and good looking portion of Erebus. The officer of course thinks this is crazy and lets her go.
Why? Because she is possessed by what Neville believes is the devil. When a police officer arrives at the hotel, he discovers that Neville is keeping his wife locked up in the basement. LoCicero), the owner of The Gorham House in the 1950s. The first of the three main stories is titled “Devil” and tells the story of Robert Neville (Michael A. That means I will start with the possession story of the whole thing. I’m going to save the tying story until the end of this review because it concludes the movie. And we, as viewers, get to witness a few of these strange happenings. Possessions, hauntings, and murders have happened in the hotel throughout its many years of existence. They all involve an old hotel in which many incidents of supernatural violence have taken place. Though, in the case of Erebus, the stories are all related in some way. The 2014 anthology film Erebus is one of the many anthologies that uses the format outlined above. The feature length helps to bring more awareness to the short films that may not have been seen otherwise, and the additional story tying the shorts together can help to justify having them together. Many times, they even come with a bookend story that tries to tie them all together. Instead of having to seek out multiple twenty minute films, you get them in a feature length form.
They are basically collections of short films brought together in a nice little package to make for easier viewing. I don’t know about you but I find anthologies to be a fascinating piece of the cinematic landscape. Using Block Island’s intimate setting as a backdrop.
Erebus is an anthology horror film inspired by the well-documented history of supernatural phenomenon in Rhode Island.
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