Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) works in a nursing capacity at a Catholic Church run exorcism school in Boston. She wants to train in the Rite of Exorcism but the church only permits men to do so. Ann seems to have a special bond with one young patient, Natalie (Posy Taylor), and, after a demon inside another takes a personal interest in her, professor Father Quinn (Colin Salmon) recognises Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. She teams up with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro) and they discover that Natalie is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago.
I saw Prey For The Devil immediately after the innovative and surprising Barbarian, and it pales in comparison. It is competently enough made, but the visual representations of possession are overly familiar from countless similar films. Even the old waking up from what is obviously a dream, sitting bolt upright and panting, trope is wheeled out.
The film meanders somewhat to an obvious conclusion. Not boring, but hardly gripping. In fact, it is only in the final scene that anything really affecting happens.
Rating: 5.5 out of 10