A
disillusioned evangelist performs his very last exorcism.
A new exponent
in the thriving found footage horror genre “The last exorcism” enjoyed a
surprising success.
It starts
very slowly; the pretext of the found footage is that this is a documentary on
the last exorcism of this minister who admits out loud at the beginning that
the exorcism business is all a scam and that he never believed. Of course as
genre conventions dictates that “one last job” goes incredibly wrong when all
this stuff suddenly look terribly real.
For all
practical purposes the first 30 minutes could be a fly on the wall documentary
on the subject, as a doc is even mildly interesting.
The scares
are slowly built and are more of the generally unsettling type, this is
refreshing in today sudden jump scares environment but maybe a little bit too
predictable when seen trough the lenses of exorcism movies who’ve been doing
this for the last thirty years.
The nice
gross, especially considering the very low budget, means that the obligatory
sequel is in production so apparently the so called last exorcism will be
followed by “The very last exorcism” and maybe “The last exorcism 3: this time
for real” to round up the trilogy. J
In the end
the fake doc format manages to make this an interesting movie, nothing really
ground breaking but it hold the viewer attention all the way trough.
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