“Anything For Jackson” (** out of four) was a joyless horror thriller about a Satanist couple (Julian Richings and Sheila McCarthy) who kidnap a young pregnant woman (Konstantina Mantelos) so they can use an ancient spellbook to put the spirit of their dead grandson into her but this leads to a hellish chain of unholy consequences neither of them expected. Director Justin Dyck and cinematographer Sasha Moric infuse this with an atmosphere of melancholic dread but story lags after a while and treads on all-too-familiar territory. McCarthy and Richings are creepy in the lead roles.

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