Premonition
With the gloomy overcast atmosphere ofSeven, a supernatural  undercurrent that echoes in films fromThe ExorcisttoThe Sixth  Sense, and a plot that could have sprung fromThe X-Files, Gavin  Wilding'sPremonitionis a spooky--if not wholly convincing--story of  a rift in the fabric of fate. Canadian actress Cynthia Preston is a young  Seattle reporter (that explains the constant drizzle) for a supermarket  tabloid of paranormal phenomena, but these fictions are nothing compared to  the strange events that erupt around her. Glass and ceramics shatter in her  presence, earthquakes and hurricanes erupt around her, and a web of glowing  blue energy beams crisscrosses the city above her home. Not that anyone  notices, even her morose roommate (Adrian Paul of theHighlanderTV  series), who picks up the wreckage from their apartment's most recent lashing  completely unfazed. It's up to her cynical, disillusioned editor (Christopher  Lloyd) to dig through the mysterious pieces of her secret past. Wilding's  funereal solemnity almost smothers the story, which loses momentum in a  laughable third-act metaphysical "explanation," but the uneasy tension and  creepy mood carry the film through even its most unconvincing developments.  The film was originally titled the more accurateConvergence(the  premonitions here are rare, but the film concludes in an eerie, if  all-too-neat convergence of its haunted trio).--Sean Axmaker