PLOT SUMMARY: When Camille enrols in Edelvine Academy, she is pulled into the mystery of the murdered girl whose place she took. Camille and the other girls have a seance to find the truth.
As a kid, I always found it fun to either read ghost stories in the dark or have them be told to me. And by ghost stories, I meant the PG-rated ones that bordered more on comedy than actual scares.
I didn't get to read the "real" horror stories until I was well into my teenage years.
Even then, I liked to read and hear allegedly true ghosts stories and urban legends. But did I actually want to summon a ghost by using the various methods that were all the hype in those days?
Nope.
For the only reason that if I did want to summon someone, it wouldn't be because I want to be chased around and killed in my own home. I would want to summon a genie that would grant me wishes; no strings attached.
But it seems that there are a couple of kids out there who think ghost summoning is an adventure sport.
Nothing more thrilling than summoning a ghost to stalk and kill you, it seems.
So anyway, here's another movie where a group of girls summon a ghost via a Seance.
SEANCE Movie Plot
In the Edelvine Academy for girls, a group of girls decide to hold a seance in the bathroom to summon the ghost of the girl who died at school years ago.
Soon enough there are whispers, candles being blown out, and the leader of the group, Alice, goes over to the bathtub which is filled with blood. A hand creeps out and one of the girls, Kerrie, gets creeped out and runs out of the bathroom.
While the whole incident is actually a prank staged by Alice and one of her friends, Kerrie is in her room and sees something. The next instant, she's tumbling off the window.
The other girls go to check on Kerrie and let her know about the prank, but all they find is their friend laying below in a pool of blood.
Some time later, a new girl takes admission in school and is readily given a place since the headmistress, Mrs Landry, doesn't like empty rooms at her prestigious school.
Camille is commended for having a great transcript and then enrolled immediately even though it's not the start of the semester but somewhere in between.
Camille doesn't waste any time getting into the popular clique. The easiest way...pick a fight with the popular girl, in this case, Alice, and get beaten up by her.
Camille riles Alice by sitting at her lunch table and everyone knows that there is always a great table at the cafeteria that has to be occupied by the popular girls. Is the table closer to the kitchen? Near a window with a great view? Has nice ventilation? No idea, but the popular kids always have a favourite table and they do not like anyone else sitting at it.
Camille refuses to move because she wants to befriend Alice and a catfight ensues. Helina, the girl who was supposed to help Camille acclimate, doesn't tell her about the popular table rules and is unfortunately dragged into the whole mess too.
Mrs Landry is disappointed in Camille; not so much in the others. She gives them all detention and the punishment is basically all the girls having to catalogue books on the computer.
Of course the girls don't want to do anything boring like that and Alice has a newfound respect for Camille since she didn't rat out who started the fight, so she invites her to the seance they want to conduct and call upon the Edelvine ghost.
Camille knows the girls are planning a prank because she's already seen one of them hiding in the corner.
The seance begins and it is suspected that Kerrie was contacted instead. They receive a message that they would all die.
The group gets nervous and Mrs Landry appears and is disappointed to find the girls don't find her stern enough to abide by her orders and complete the punishment.
Later that night, one of the girls is attacked and killed. It is pointless learning the names of the other girls apart from Camille, Helina, and Alice because they don't get enough screen time and are killed like flies anyway.
The next day, the missing girl's disappearance is discussed with the group who have no idea where their friend went.
Mrs Landry, keen on saving some money, hires her son Trevor to be the handyman so she doesn't have to pay him. He becomes a little close to Camille and immediately replies to all her messages, including the one where she wants him to help her and her new friends break into the missing girl's room.
He opens the door and the girls waste no time touching everything that doesn't belong to them.
Then one of them points out that the missing girl never made her bed and the bed is made. They pull down the covers and find a sign in what they think is blood. The symbol is reminiscent of the jewellery design worn by the girl who died years ago at the academy.
Another girl is murdered in the showers and Camille gets disturbed but she does have Helina to console her.
The rest of the group decide to hold another seance because that is the name of the movie and since there is nothing better to do at the academy, not even studying, the girls find summoning ghosts to be entertaining and enlightening.
The girls once again use a makeshift Ouija board to contact the dead and supposedly contact the recently murdered girl who pins the blame on Camille.
Camille is immediately struck by Alice but since they don't have any proof, don't do much except inform their family that should anything happen to them, Camille is to blame.
One of the girls in the group decides to go to practice ballet since everyone has seen how terrible Camille is at it and don't want to end up like her.
While twirling, she is killed by a masked assailant.
Seance Ending Explained with spoilers!
Soon enough only Alice, Camille, Helina and Bethany are left from the group.
Alice and Camille are knocked unconscious and awaken in a room all tied up. Camille is the first to regain consciousness and finds there are two masked killers who reveal themselves to be Bethany and Trevor, Mrs Landry's son who hated being a handyman and took up a career as a murderer instead. He also enticed Bethany when she wasn't even the legal age, so there's that too on his list of accomplishments.
Bethany reveals she masterminded the murders of her friends because she stole Kerrie's essay that helped her win a scholarship of 250,000 and she didn't want her friends to realise she was a cheater.
So rather than not let her friends read the essay or be better at plagiarizing her essays so that she wouldn't get caught, she found it easier to kill people with the help of her secret lover, the headmistress' son.
Now the plan is to pin the blame on Camille after Bethany kills Alice too. And then there's some elaborate plan to have Helina killed too but to make it look like a suicide.
Camille decides it's time to reveal the plot twist. Not that we didn't already all see she isn't exactly a model student and can't do ballet to save her life even though she claimed in her reports that she was a trained at it.
She isn't Camille. She used a fake name and transcripts to get into the academy who clearly don't have a thorough process before enrolling a student. Do they need to meet the parents before enrollment? No? Check the address or anything else?
So anyway, Bethany isn't interested in knowing who Camille really is either but Camille let's on that she came here to avenge her friend's death because she was all she had.
Yes, Camille, or whatever her real name is, was besties with Kerrie and when she died, she thought killing her killers was the best revenge.
So after a lot of chasing around, Trevor and Bethany are killed by Camille with the help of Helina who was led to the library by Kerrie's ghost who finally decided to help in the last scene.
Bethany is stabbed by a tube light and Trevor has a bookshelf dropped on him that decapitates him. The bookshelf had some really sharp corners.
Camille grabs her things, including photos of her and Kerrie and decides to leave for good.
Helina is upset because she finally made one friend and she turns out to be an avenger. Camille kisses her goodbye and we wonder if Kerrie was just a friend or something much more to Camille which is why she was so hell-bent on getting revenge.
Camille takes one last look at the academy and sees Kerrie's ghost who waves at her from a window. Helina thinks Camille is waving at her and Camille notices it and gives her a pity wave back.
The police will eventually arrive and question the other students and they would describe Camille. And how far does Camille intend to go on foot? She probably has a headstart considering despite all the murders and disappearances, the police still do not come to the campus on time, nor does the security measures increase at the academy.
Clearly, Edelvine Academy isn't the best school to send anyone to. No security measures were taken whatsoever and the students hold seances rather than study.
Enrol at your own risk.
Scare scale: 2.5/5
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