26 July 2010

The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm, 2010)

3/10
Incredibly disappointing. Why are we still making exorcism movies when it was all said and done (better) back in 1973? Just a note to the filmmakers, when you do a movie shot "handheld" style, as soon as you use non-diagetic music, you've completely betrayed your film. Additionally, your "cameraperson" should be filming the action as honestly as possible. Instead his filming (i.e. what we see) is so obviously directed, with the possessed girl shot from obtuse angles, through holes and behind fences, with reaction shots of the father and priest thrown in, when any sane person actually filming it would have trained his camera dead-on the possessed girl writhing around on the floor.
Finally the ending to this movie is one of the biggest cop-outs I've seen, almost felt insulting. Don't be tempted by the great poster when this comes out in a few weeks...total dud.

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