☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Extra Ordinary (2019) – M. Ahern & E.
Loughman
I’m sure this Irish horror-comedy is a cult
classic in-the-making, particularly because it eschews gore and has a tender
feeling for its misfit characters. The
comedy is goofy, sometimes adult, and often pretty funny. The horror is not really to be taken
seriously either. The plot, for all its
ridiculousness, fits together very neatly.
Maeve Higgins plays a driving school instructor with the ability to
contact and exorcise unruly ghosts (the kind who possess recycling bins, for
example); however, she doesn’t want to use her powers due to a tragedy in her
past. Yet when poor Martin Martin (Barry
Ward) requires her assistance, not to exorcise his nagging ex-wife’s ghost but
to rescue his teen daughter from becoming a virgin sacrifice in the Satanic
rites of pompous muso Christian Winter (hilarious Will Forte), she yields. What follows is a silly set of anecdotes as
they exorcise and collect ectoplasm from ghosts around their community (cue
character actors). The finale employs
real special effects to hit things home, sealing the deal. Often these sorts of genre offerings flop
somewhere along the line but happily this one holds together all the way
through. Recommended!
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