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The Exorcism<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vertical\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, some violent content, sexual references, brief sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joshua John Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Simon Duggan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 21, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, David Hyde Pierce, Samantha Mathis, Marcenae Lynette, Tracey Bonner.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Let\u2019s clear this up once and for all. The new horror movie The Exorcism<\/strong> is not, I repeat NOT, a sequel to last year\u2019s The Pope\u2019s Exorcist. It\u2019s true both demonic possession thrillers star Russell Crowe, but he doesn\u2019t play a priest in the new film. Instead, he plays an actor playing a priest in a demonic possession thriller. There\u2019s another big difference. The Pope\u2019s Exorcist is a good movie. The Exorcism<\/strong> is NOT. It commits the one sin for which a horror movie cannot be absolved, it\u2019s boring.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Crowe plays Tony Miller, a washed-up actor and recovering addict trying to make a comeback after an extended bender following his late wife\u2019s cancer diagnosis. It didn\u2019t just cost him his professional reputation; it also caused him to become estranged from his rebellious teen daughter Lee (Simpkins, Fear Street 1-2) who just moved back in with him after getting kicked out of school. She\u2019s still angry at her dad for not being there when his family needed him most. He, in turn, still feels tremendous guilt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Tony gets the part after the actor originally set to play the role dies in a mysterious on-set accident. It\u2019s a horror picture entitled The Georgetown Project. Fans of a certain DP horror flick will instantly know why the title\u2019s significant. They\u2019ll also see that it\u2019s a total rip-off of said DP film.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Naturally, things do not go smoothly for Tony, on set and off. The director (Goldberg, Dazed and Confused), a temperamental type who cares more about his vision than the people helping him to realize it, isn\u2019t at all satisfied with his efforts. The actor starts to deteriorate mentally, not that he was all that stable to begin with. His behavior becomes increasingly erratic. He walks around in a daze and is prone to violent fits of anger and self-harm. He also mutters to himself in Latin. What could possibly be ailing Tony? Is he finally being forced to confront his own personal demons or real ones? I think we all know the answer to that one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I understand that director Joshua John Miller (the son of Exorcist star Jason Miller) is going for something more cerebral with The Exorcism<\/strong>. That itself is admirable. The problem is that it\u2019s not all that interesting. In fact, it\u2019s not interesting at all. That\u2019s disappointing because it had potential. At one point, a character mentions how certain horror movies (e.g. Poltergeist, The Omen and, of course, The Exorcist) appear to be cursed. Miller should have taken the idea and run with it. That would have made for compelling viewing. Instead, he opts for a slow think piece that\u2019s sure to turn off fans of the genre.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Pacing isn\u2019t the movie\u2019s only problem. The screenplay by Miller and M.A. Fortin is one of those half-assed deals that pad the run time with underdeveloped characters like the co-star (Worthington, Avatar) just waiting for his opportunity to steal the lead from Tony and subplots like the romance between Lee and the movie-within-the-movie\u2019s female lead Blake (R&B singer Bailey). These things are pointless like most of everything in The Exorcism<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0To answer a question I\u2019m sure nobody has, there is an exorcism at the end of The Exorcism<\/strong>. It\u2019s performed by one Father Conor (Pierce, Frasier) who takes a page from the Book of Father Karras in dealing with the problem. This sequence is only slightly more interesting that everything that precedes it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Crowe, at one time, was one of the hottest actors in the industry. He starred in some great ones- e.g. L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator (for which he won an Oscar) and A Beautiful Mind. Now he\u2019s something of a joke. I can\u2019t take him seriously anymore. Simpkins fares a little better as the daughter forced to assume the role of parent and caretaker. The rest of the cast might as well have phoned it in for all they bring to the film. That is, except for Pierce who seems to be having a little fun with his underwritten role.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It took a while for The Exorcism<\/strong> to see the inside of multiplexes. It wrapped right before the pandemic hit in early 2020. The makers had to wait until last year to put the finishing touches on it. Post-production wasn\u2019t completed until this past January. That never bodes well for a film. The studio barely promoted it in the weeks leading to its release. It seems like they\u2019re not expecting it to do any business. I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t delay its release until next January. It\u2019s exactly the kind of horror movie that comes out in the dead period right after the holidays.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In short, The Exorcism<\/strong> is an unholy bore. Everybody involved should be made to do penance for this mortal sin against the horror genre and cinema in general.<\/p>\r\n The Exorcism (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vertical\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, some violent content, sexual references, brief sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joshua John Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Simon Duggan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 21, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/The-Exorcism-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/The-Exorcism-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C919&ssl=1\")
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