The Jack in the Box: The Awakening (2022)
The Jack in the Box: The Awakening
”A dying woman and her son make a deadly deal with a captured demon.”
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Between its deals with demons and its manipulation plot, Jack in the Box 2: The Awakening might seem like a hybrid between movies such as Psycho and The Conjuring. The plot follows a dying woman who unleashes the demon locked in a box, who offers her a deal: her health, in exchange for six sacrifices that must be done by her son. It's not a movie that innovates or will change the course of horror, but if you like the more traditional genre films, it will leave you satisfied.
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Terminally ill heiress Olga Marsdale acquires a mysterious gothic box containing a captured demon Jack. The powerful entity within makes a deadly deal with Olga and her devoted son Edgar deliver six innocent victims to Jack and Olga will live.
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