Jena Malone Stars in ‘Black Death’ Director’s Religious Horror Movie ‘Consecration’ [Trailer]

Get out those bibles and start praying as Triangle, Black Death, and The Banishing director Christopher Smith returns to horror with Consecration, coming soon from IFC Midnight and Shudder here in early 2023.

IFC Midnight will first release the film in theaters on February 10, 2023, Entertainment Weekly reports this morning. Consecration then comes to Digital on March 3, 2023.

Consecration stars Jena Malone (The Ruins), Danny Huston (30 Days of Night, “American Horror Story”), and Janet Suzman. Christopher Smith co-wrote the script with Laurie Cook.

In Consecration, “After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own past.”

Previously, Smith described the project as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.”

He added: “This film is an opportunity to take the audience on a thrilling journey into the dark unknown, and I want to really push that to the limit both in terms of scares and the psychology of the main characters. …I want Consecration to be the scariest yet.”

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