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It doesn't fully deliver on the chilly promise of its Blair Witch-style premise, but The Last Exorcism offers a surprising number of clever thrills. Read critic reviews
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After years of gulling the faithful, cleric Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) feels remorse and decides to expose his chicanery through filming a documentary. With a crew in tow, Marcus arrives at the Louisiana farm of devout Louis Sweetzer, who believes that his daughter, Nell, is possessed. When the usual stunts fail, he realizes that he is face-to-face with real evil and must summon true faith to protect Nell, the others and himself from demonic power.
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Rating: PG-13 (Some Sexual References|Disturbing Violent Content|Terror|Thematic Material)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Daniel Stamm
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Producer: Eli Roth, Eric Newman, Marc Abraham, Thomas A. Bliss
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Writer: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $41.0M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Lionsgate Films
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Production Co: Arcade
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Sound Mix: Dolby, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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An outstanding found footage supernatural horror directed and edited by Daniel Stamm, a German independent filmmaker. It stars Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, and Louis Herthum, and they were perfectly cast. The story follows a disillusioned evangelical minister, who after years of performing exorcisms decides to participate in a documentary chronicling his last exorcism while exposing the fraud of his ministry. He is just an ordinary man struggling with ordinary problems and trying to support his family. After receiving a letter from a farmer asking for help in driving out the devil, he meets the farmer's afflicted daughter thinking that this will be just another job which will pay for his son's medical bills. But, that wasn't the case. I am not a fan of anyone using shaky camera, but here was really appropriate to give us suspense feeling of reality in 'found footage' style (Stamm has previously directed A Necessary Death, another 'found footage' film). The movie created some controversy in the UK: a poster image for the film showed a young girl, wearing a blood-spattered dress, bent over backwards below a crucifix, received 77 complaints, the complainants describing it as "offensive", "distressing", and "unsuitable for public viewing". Of course, for such low level of complaints, most of the advertising agencies would do nothing but in this case the Advertising Standards Agency decided that the image could not be used on a publicly visible poster since that was an untargeted medium but was acceptable on the back cover of Cineworld magazine! Unusual decision which just added some extra talk about the movie. The experience was thrilling, chilling and combined with the entertaining values of the movie, it was a refreshing addition to uninventive horror creations created daily. My choice for horror lovers.
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A smart and well-crafted film, The Last Exorcism is an intense and exciting dramatic thriller. Filmed as a documentary, a former exorcist sets out to expose exorcism as a hoax but comes up against a case that puts him to the test. The storytelling's especially good, and does an exceptional job at developing the plot and at setting a realistic tone. The character development is also well-done, and helps to draw the audience into the film. The Last Exorcism avoids many of the tropes of the horror genre and presents a uniquely compelling vision that's full of intrigue.
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Wrongly advertised as a full on horror movie, The Last Exorcism works more as a character driven drama with mixed results. The characters are well pulled and the humor is spot-on, working wonders to introduce the main characters. When the shit hits the fan, it just doesn't deliver like it could've, and the result is a very lackluster last segment that feels fake through and through, though it keeps some nice surprises towards the end.
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[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] The found-footage genre has been abused so many times since The Blair Witch Project's surprise success, I think the only reason that it was used in The Last Exorcism was to bring in the money. But this is surprisingly not your typical run of the mill fare. There's this weird presumption nowadays that if a horror film is made to look like it was captured on a handheld camera that it will scare us more. The idea itself is preposterous and this film is proof. It manages to be creepy, thought provoking and eery without the full use of it's mockumentary style. However this is a criticism rather than a compliment, it failed to sew that illusion after the first 30 minutes. So the way it's been filmed is a failure. Other than that there are several problems. There is a lack of long and tense builds ups, a slow and overly self-explanatory beggining, and possibly one of the worst endings in recent memory. After having a good 50 minutes or so of incredibly convincing performances (particularly the promising Ashley Bell), a good number of well directed frights and some rough character development it throws absolutely everything out the window by wimping out with a brainless, unimaginative and very cliched cop out finale. To forgive it and then say the film is a solid horror piece would be absolutely pushing it. But this is the first genuinely creepy film with an Eli Roth production credit. I think his debut film Cabin Fever is acceptable, and I think the Hostel movies are lame and predictable. But backing off as producer he has teamed up with a director who knows what he's doing, up to a point. Despite it's lack of originality, it's horrible ending and it's genetic predictability, The Last Exorcism overall never fails to intrigue.
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