Review of Morrigan – the spirit of a pagan demon queen was released from an Irish tomb | Video

Men Irish legends, and Morrigan is a powerful god of death and war. This horror film portrays her as a real historical figure: a pagan queen murdered by her followers and Christians. A quick scene at the beginning of the film shows the dirty work. Morrígan’s rage against misogyny has been screaming for centuries – so it’s a shame that the film makes her not as an icon of women but the most traditional healers of the film’s enemies; a woman who avenges evil to be crushed and destroyed. There is no punching in the air in the end.

Saffron Burrows plays an archaeologist named Fiona who is repeatedly passed over for her US university. When Fiona presents her strong theory that the legend of the Morrígan may have a basis in real life, her slippery friend Jonathan (Jonathan Forbes) leads the dig. Fiona is forced to bring her rebellious daughter Lily (Emily Flain), who has just been kicked out of boarding school. And it’s poor Lily who’s with Morrígan when the archaeologists break into her tomb, unleashing demonic energies that were hidden away by the priests, like pagan nuclear waste, 1,500 years ago.

Lily’s transformation into Morrígan is part of the familiar imagery and tricks: blood spurts out of the shower and her hair comes out in lines covering the plug hole. It is very sad that a parenting movie of the past years gives us an image of a school age person taking a bath naked. The rest is your own risk as Fiona fights to take her daughter back from the Morrígan, while the men choose a path that is sure to cause total destruction. You may find yourself listening to the devil.