Jessabelle Dvd

Jessabelle is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Ben Garant. The film stars Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter, David Andrews, Amber Stevens, and Ana de la Reguera. The film was released by Lionsgate on November 7, 2014.

Plot

The pregnant Jessabelle “Jessie” Laurent (Sarah Snook) is about to move to her fiancé, Mark’s (Brian Hallisay) house when their car is hit by a truck just when they are backing up their car from the driveway, killing Mark and causing Jessie’s miscarriage. Two months afterward, Jessie, who now uses a wheelchair, moves in with her estranged father, Leon (David Andrews) in St. Francisville, Louisiana. She resides in her mother’s former bedroom. Her mother, Kate, died due to a brain tumor shortly after she was born, with Leon subsequently leaving her to be raised by her aunt.

One day, Jessie finds a box containing three videotapes shot by Kate (Joelle Carter). Addressing Jessie by her full name, she congratulates her on her 18th birthday and gives a tarot reading about Death that tells of a transition, taught to her by a friend whom she met at a local church. Kate warns that an unwanted presence is haunting Jessie, a reading that turns out to be true, as Jessie feels that a gaunt black-haired woman (Amber Stevens) is haunting her ever since she moved back in to her father’s house. Jessie also has a vivid dream where she is strapped to a bed by her mother and witnesses a voodoo ritual being conducted, where blood flowing into a breathing regulator chokes her. Leon repeatedly tries to dissuade Jessie from watching the tapes by breaking them and throwing Jessie’s wheelchair into the lake.

One day, Jessie has frightening encounter in the bathtub with the same woman during physical therapy. After lifting Jessie onto Kate’s wheelchair, Leon coerces her physical therapist into leaving the house. After telling Jessie that the Kate in the tapes is not her mother due to the tumors she had, Leon attempts to burn all of the tapes, but a supernatural force burns him alive inside the yard shed.

During Leon’s funeral, Jessie reunites with her high school friend, Preston Sanders (Mark Webber), but collapses after she sees a severely burned man (Vaughan Wilson). After Preston leaves from tending to Jessie, Jessie discovers a tape with no label on it that she opts not to watch. The next day, Jessie and Preston head across a nearby bayou, which Jessie has been suspicious of since observing glittering light and flames appearing there. The two discover voodoo icons and effects, as well as a grave of “Jessabelle” with a baby’s skeleton, dated on Jessie’s birthday, which they turn over to Sheriff Pruitt (Chris Ellis) for DNA testing. Jessie and Preston then visit the house of Mrs. Davis (Fran Bennett), the mother of one of their friends, who speaks about Moses Harper. Thinking that Moses may be involved in the supernatural occurrences, the two head to Moses’ voodoo shrine in a ruined church, but are attacked by a group of men who force them to leave.

The two return to Jessie’s home where Preston confesses that, despite being married, he is in love with Jessie. Preston offers to let Jessie live with his mother, which she accepts. Jessie watches the fourth tape, showing Kate shouting “You’re dead!” before it cuts off. Just before Jessie can finish her packing; Preston is attacked by the ghostly woman and knocked unconscious.

Now left alone, Jessie conducts a ritual to summon the woman. After the ritual, Jessie is called by Pruitt, who informs her that the baby was Kate’s daughter, but not Leon’s. She plays the blank tape where it shows Kate casting a voodoo enchantment on an newborn white girl and committing suicide by gunshot, not before tearfully shouting that Jessabelle and her father Moses are dead. Jessie is confronted by Kate’s spirit and realizes the truth that her “father” was hiding from her: the video tapes filmed were for Jessabelle, who was the daughter of Kate and Moses, the result of an interracial affair at the same church mentioned in the first tape. Jessebelle was killed on the night of her birth, along with her father, by Leon. Leon snapped Jessabelle’s spine in half, pushed a baby carriage with her lifeless body and a china doll inside into the bayou, weighing it with down stones to prevent it from resurfacing. Leon then drove up to Kate and Moses’ church where he shot Moses and set the building ablaze, leaving Moses for dead in the burning church. Jessie realizes that she is the unwanted presence, being a white girl adopted by Leon on the same night to cover up the murders.

Swearing revenge, Kate and Moses planned to transfer Jessabelle’s spirit to Jessie. Jessie is pushed by Kate and Moses’ spirits towards the bayou, where Jessabelle swims up and takes her mother’s bracelet, resurfacing back in the form of Jessie. Preston jumps in to save her and she kisses him and asks him to take her home. When Pruitt asks “Miss Laurent” if she is all right, she replies “It’s Jessabelle”.

Cast

Sarah Snook as Jessie Laurent
Mark Webber as Preston Sanders
David Andrews as Leon Laurent
Joelle Carter as Kate Laurent
Ana de la Reguera as Rosaura
Amber Stevens as Jessabelle / Dead Girl
Larisa Oleynik as Samantha
Chris Ellis as Sheriff Pruitt
Brian Hallisay as Mark
Lucius Baston as Mr. Woods
Jason Davis as Surgeon
Vaughan Wilson as Moses Harper
Karen Strassman as Additional Dead Girl Vocals