The Last Exorcism

[SatEL]

This film sucked, and the multi twist ending was just atrocious and really dropped the overall quality of the film.

 

[Asgard]

Michael Cera kind of dropped the ball in accepting a role in the movie.

 

[steintym]

I just picked this up on DVD. I was hoping to see this in the theaters when it came out, but we never got around to it. I'm looking forward to seeing this, but from reading some of the other posts, I'm not going in with extremely high expectations.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

Michael Cera kind of dropped the ball in accepting a role in the movie.

wait what?

 

[jacobed]

I really liked the idea behind most of the movie with the priest not believing in possession and I thought the acting was pretty stellar but man alive that ending.

 

[Asgard]

wait what?

Michael shouldve never agreed to play Nell.

 

[That-Guy]

Saw this last night. I still can't decide how I feel about it.

I thought the acting was very strong and felt very real, across the board. Ashley Bell in particular, gave a standout performance and I was impressed to find out that all of the bizarre contortions she did weren't helped by special effects or anything; she's apparently a double-jointed ballet dancer.

Overall, I loved the set-up, as well. Though I'm getting a bit tired of the mockumentary style of film, it does add that "real" element to films that can pull it off. I also think that the film deserves credit for taking what is a fairly worn-out genre (girl-possessed-by-demon horror) and taking it in interesting directions. My main worry going into the film was that it would feel like a wannabe Exorcist or Exorcism of Emily Rose, and it didn't, mainly because the filmmakers make the audience questions whether the girl was possessed or if she was just driven insane by her creepy, Bible-thumping father.

Spoiler

And then there is the ending. I still can't decide how I felt about that. It's certainly not lacking in orginality. And I don't mind that they don't attempt to explain every detail about it. Being left to draw your own conclusions isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I did take issue with how it all came about. The local pastor and his congregation seemed to have very little contact with the father and the daughter after they had left the church. We do find out that he had some contact with the daughter afterward, but it seemed like a huge jump from her attending a meeting with some local kids to the pastor delivering her demon child and sending his minions to kill the film crew. I also didn't really even understand why Cotton brought the pastor back to the house in the first place when he thought that Nell was just having a psychotic episode and was pregnant by the kid at the diner. You would have thought he would have just called a psychologist to come, not the pastor (though the pastor does say that he will call his psychologist friend). Also, I'm still not sure whether the pastor and his followers were Satanists or if they were trying to sacrifice the demon child to save the girl, and it backfired (literally), since he tossed the baby into the fire, which (perhaps) he could have thought would destroy it, but it appeared to only make it stronger.

All in all, it's not so much that I felt the end was bad, it just seemed sort of tacked on or not completely thought out.

 

[Octoberist]

I saw it..and I kinda liked it due to the acting. But the problem was that..it wasn't that scary and nor does it draw you into the mystery as well as it should have.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

Saw this last night. I still can't decide how I feel about it.

I thought the acting was very strong and felt very real, across the board. Ashley Bell in particular, gave a standout performance and I was impressed to find out that all of the bizarre contortions she did weren't helped by special effects or anything; she's apparently a double-jointed ballet dancer.

Overall, I loved the set-up, as well. Though I'm getting a bit tired of the mockumentary style of film, it does add that "real" element to films that can pull it off. I also think that the film deserves credit for taking what is a fairly worn-out genre (girl-possessed-by-demon horror) and taking it in interesting directions. My main worry going into the film was that it would feel like a wannabe Exorcist or Exorcism of Emily Rose, and it didn't, mainly because the filmmakers make the audience questions whether the girl was possessed or if she was just driven insane by her creepy, Bible-thumping father.

Spoiler

And then there is the ending. I still can't decide how I felt about that. It's certainly not lacking in orginality. And I don't mind that they don't attempt to explain every detail about it. Being left to draw your own conclusions isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I did take issue with how it all came about. The local pastor and his congregation seemed to have very little contact with the father and the daughter after they had left the church. We do find out that he had some contact with the daughter afterward, but it seemed like a huge jump from her attending a meeting with some local kids to the pastor delivering her demon child and sending his minions to kill the film crew. I also didn't really even understand why Cotton brought the pastor back to the house in the first place when he thought that Nell was just having a psychotic episode and was pregnant by the kid at the diner. You would have thought he would have just called a psychologist to come, not the pastor (though the pastor does say that he will call his psychologist friend). Also, I'm still not sure whether the pastor and his followers were Satanists or if they were trying to sacrifice the demon child to save the girl, and it backfired (literally), since he tossed the baby into the fire, which (perhaps) he could have thought would destroy it, but it appeared to only make it stronger.

All in all, it's not so much that I felt the end was bad, it just seemed sort of tacked on or not completely thought out.

Spoiler

its obvious that they were satanist and they allowed abalan to get nell pregnant so they could have that baby...at the beginning a lady at the gas station says there used to be a crazy guy who used to think it was his duty to sacrifice souls to the devil or w/e
i thought all in all it was a creative story...not that scary but good 7/10

 

[That-Guy]

Spoiler

its obvious that they were satanist and they allowed abalan to get nell pregnant so they could have that baby...at the beginning a lady at the gas station says there used to be a crazy guy who used to think it was his duty to sacrifice souls to the devil or w/e
i thought all in all it was a creative story...not that scary but good 7/10

Spoiler

Ah, you're right. I forgot about the old lady.