I have to say i am not surprised at the outcome of this film , The Last Exorcism , is a horrible mess; i mean look at the facts here , they need to stop making these movies , We get it Exorcisms are here and alive , whoo!. But you do not need to go and make 100movies about it. This just shows us again , that every other exorcism movie (with the mere exception of Emily Rose). Just feels wasted and you (audience member is cheated) Last Exorcism is the latest horror film from scare master Eli Roth (Who Most recently is being seen as the guy getting his head ripped off in Piranha , o he also brought us the very deadly , grusome , Hostel) The film stars are unknown in little ways. Patrick Fabian , Iris Bahr , and also another newcomer who does show us what she is made of , Ashley Bell who is portraying the little 16 year old “Psychopath”. The film really has nothing to leads us into other , than a drap of a second half. I enjoyed the 1st half , but then it slowly started to die.
The story is Preacher Cotton Marcus (Fabian) is a loving father and husband. Who has been performing Exorcisms his whole life (or making people believe he has been doing exorcisms) he is a fraud , he figures that giving people the “idea” that he is helping people giving them the thought , that he is actually doing something. Well he plans now to make a doc*mentary in order to prove that exorcism is fake , (so he can help prevent people for dieing of it). Well he receives a letter from a small farm out in Louisiana , That a farmer’s daughter has been possessed by a demon. Upon arrival they have a close encounter with a local boy. After reaching the farm , the father begins showing them , animals that have been recently slaughtered. And is now being asked to perform an exorcism. But what they don’t know is , he is setting it up for fake , but actually this little girl Nelle (Ashley Bell) maybe really possessed by a something.
The acting chops in this film , were well suitable for what the movies intentions were. The actors did have some catchy one-liners in the film that can always make a movie more fun. But i really did not feel any emotion or any sudden realization until after the start of the mere 2nd half. The film literally fails apart piece by piece. The cliche moments keep piling high as they can be , the sudden jumps that are supposed to be coming at you!. They don’t work either , with every movie in cinema today , Most people can tell when something is gonna pop out at you , i heard people when leaving the screening “That was the scariest movie ever!” , see in this day and age kids , are being deprived of actual true , authentic , horror masterpieces. And i think it needs to be dealt with , they need to see the true , “Original” Exorcist.
The direction here (another newcomer) Daniel Stamm , Who well i can not say much about , other then he does still most of his styles and techniques from other major and successful films i.e (Blair Witch Project) He did also do the editing for the movie also. Which i can only describe in one word “Tack and rushed” i swear most people by the time of leaving this movie , are not only gonna be disappointed with what they just saw but also leaving with a migraine the size of Texas. The camera’s angle just after awhile does get to you. I mean we have seen Cloverfield , and Witch Project , and Paranormal Activity. Quarantine. They have decent storyline and manage to thrill you a little bit as oppose to this. This also steals thunder for its completely mis-leading ending, which you will see coming at you a mile away. Its just i had hopes that the ending would maybe save the movie from itself but no it did not.
Overall this is a pretty high skip , if you have seen other previous exorcism movies , then mix that with Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity , you are not missing anything , its the same thing we can see everyday on Ghost Hunters , the film is unoriginal fails to succeed at what it is suppose to be doing , which is scaring the audience. Some people may find this movie to be an all out , horror fun film , but to me?. No it is not. Like i said after the 1st half the movie slowly kills itself , bit by bit. You may have your opinion about the movie everyone does. But what im saying is really?. I am extremely disappointed. But this another addition where you just need to say , please stop making these films after about the original they all start dieing off , and become easily forgettable which is what this movie is. And a way that got me through the movie (if you get dragged) just keep making up jokes its sure to help ease the pain of watching a horrible Drag.
D-
ReviewdByNate
RatedPG13
RunTime91mins
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I also thought the movie was a complete letdown. Terrible ending, and an even worse “plot twist,” if you can call it that. The ending was a lot better than the other “everyone dies” endings of POV movies, but it is still not very good. The movie as a whole was somewhat interesting, and had some elements from REC. such as the before-it-happened reveals (the ending) and the whole creepy sneaking, but it didn’t scare me when she was wondering, because I remembered “this is PG-13,” and so I didn’t fear the oncoming events. I did, however like how it was still somewhat graphic for being a PG-13 movie. If they had made it rated R, it would be SO much better, and also if they had made a better plot design for the whole reveal of her situation, it would have been great. But the movie wasn’t good, and I hope that Hollywood learns to make more interesting, actually SCARY POV films.
By making this movie first person through a hand-held, they’re trying too hard to suggest that everything in the movie can happen to anyone in the audience. Their trying too hard makes the movie lose it’s credibility. I wonder why they couldn’t just make it in the same format as the original, where possession is a very real occurrence. If they spent more time creating a better plot, the first person format wouldn’t be necessary! Trading a scary storyline for an overabundance of shaky cameras, is like replacing a stone wall for one made of wood. The movie also uses a lot of jump scare scenes for a temporary fright, which tells you that horror movies are going to crap these days. The scene when they walk into the girl’s room to see a bunch of pentagrams inscribed in the walls is another case of the makers ‘trying too hard’. The scene was clique and unnecessary. How could they create this abomination and use the same title as the classic which is just scary as hell? And how long do we have to wait for another good horror movie to come out?