Ralph And Vic discuss what got them into horror all those years ago....

Filmed in Italy and released in 2012, The Haunting of Helena has turned out to be a basic cliqued ghost film. I watched it on Netflix late one night last week, and needless to say I slept like a baby that night. The film is about a recently divorced woman and her daughter Helena, who, after having recovered from a near tragic car accident, have begun to experience supernatural phenomena in the form of a woman who died in the days of Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship at the hands of her husband. The story seems to be that the husband, in a jealous rage, ripped out all her teeth and left her to die in a closet that still exists in the apartment. This ghost apparently seems to be seeking out the teeth her husband ripped out. After scaring the living crap out of Helena and her mom, they run out of there and spend the next 18 months in a hospital where Helena has not spoken. Then the ghost shows up there to start her business again. After various horror scenes with raining teeth a...

Yep....another demon possesion movie! Just when you have had enough of this stuff, the detailed and well written book by Police Officer/Demonologist Ralph Sarchie from my good old home town of NYC originally entitled "Beware The Night" has been hollywoodized into this creepy spin based on his cases with what he calls "The Demonic". The preview above speaks for itself about the plot of the story....Ralph, a NYPD officer, starts to get cases here in the Bronx about some people who are apparently possessed by a demon or demons. I can already tell how far this is from the book and that the book is more real than this. In this film it appears that Ralph is portrayed as a regular police officer who is skeptical and doubtful about something spiritual going on....that of course changes throughout the film as his own family start to become victims of supernatural forces beyond his control. Needless to say, the real Ralph Sarchie, based on the book, was not a skeptic ...