Possession Diaries (2019)

After using a ouija board a few days earlier, strange things start happening to Rebecca. She’s seen a priest and a psychiatrist but neither believes her story. It’s pretty impressive she could get an appointment with a psychiatrist within a day or two. 

Rebecca starts a vlog to document her possession.  She tells her audience she’s not an actor and that this is real.  That’s funny considering the acting in this film isn’t very good.  The fake crying is so bad that if someone did it in real life, you’d turn to your friend and  raise your eyebrows as if to say, are you seeing this?

I’m not sure anyone would be interested in her vlog. For days not much happens other than she constantly complains, talks to her boyfriend Dante (but not about what’s going on), and gets a few crank calls from what may be a demon.  She also says “hey guys” a millions times in a lifeless way, and almost every sentence between Rebecca and Dante contains the word babe. The biggest questions are will she ever change her clothes and what year is this supposed to be? Because she’s using a landline and most college students use cell phones.

Day three - Rebecca still hasn’t changed her clothes, and she’s kind of an idiot. She sees a psychic who believes her demon story and mentions a priest that can help. Rebecca says, “Forget it. They don’t believe me.”  She never considers that perhaps a priest who has a working relationship with a psychic would be open to tales of possessions or demons. What has she got to lose? Finally someone believes her story but she shrugs and slinks away. Also people online think she’s faking it so latch onto anyone who will believe.

Day five - The same clothes still cloak her while she cries to her camera, “My boyfriend Dante broke up with me because I tried stabbing him with a knife this morning.”  Unsurprisingly her online audience is not sympathetic. But on the plus size, the priest comes to do an exorcism.

Day six - it’s Halloween, it’s her birthday and now she has changed because the demon is gone. Hurrah. She calls a friend to ask for a favor and based on the ten digits she had to dial, he’s long distance. So that makes it even stranger when he arrives and she asks him to get rid of her ouija board.  Couldn’t she ask someone who lived closer?

If you’re thinking about watching this, be forewarned. It has a 1.9 rating on IMDB. While most of the movie is shown from the angle of the computer so we can see the entire room, she is actually only broadcasting her head and shoulders, which is insane. No wonder people online don’t believe her. She basically has no proof except for some crank phone calls and things that happen off screen.

Ridiculous dialogue

That was Dante. I can’t let him know what just happened.

Rebecca: I’m scared.

Dante: Scared of what?

Rebecca: Never mind.

I’m sorry to call you so late. I had a really bad dream about you. Maybe it was the sandwich I ate before I went to bed.

This is what she’s broadcasting. It’s useless unless
the demon conks her on the noggin.

This is what we see when she’s talking to the camera.