‘Anything For Jackson’ is a reverse exorcism gone wrong | Nightstream Film Fest

In Anything for Jackson, a couple of elderly Satanists try to bring their grandson back from the dead and instead unleash horrifying spirits into their home

Quick cut: Anything for Jackson doesn’t take its premise of Satanists performing a reverse exorcism as far as it could go, however its complex protagonists make it a devilish delight of a film.

★★★

If I told you that Justin G Dyck, the director of Hallmark films such as Christmas Wedding Planner, Christmas with a View, and, my personal favorite, A Puppy for Christmas, would go on to make Anything for Jackson, a horror black comedy about satanists performing a reverse exorcism to bring their dead grandson back to life, well, I’d probably think you were possessed. However, Dyck did exactly that and the results are as far from Hallmark Christmas movie as you could get.

Anything for Jackson, a Canadian production that screened at the Nightstream Film Fest this week, opens with an elderly couple, Audrey (Sheila McCarthy) and Henry Walsh (J…