On an average day, you’d be happy to know that your dead relative has left an estate in your name. But life isn’t quite so normal and nice in writer-director Sasha Sibley’s world. With a low-budget production, Sibley manages to put together a decent horror flick with dense lore, which feels fresh in her latest movie, The Painted. The film features unfulfilled love, mad revenge, and unabashed creepiness in a few sequences. All things considered, let’s dive into dissecting the movie.

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What happens in the movie?

A husband sits beside his ailing wife and takes her ring off to perform a ritual that might make his wife better. However, when he summons the spirit who is possessing his wife, a picture of the spirit paints itself on the canvas he set up. We see a page from a book discussing the occult practice of summoning spirits from paintings,...