There have been many times I’ve seen a horror movie that have scared me such as the original A Nightmare on Elm Street or have made me quite jumpy like Paranormal Activity, unfortunately The Last Exorcism fails to do that and more. So The Last Exorcism is filmed in a documentary style made popular by movies such as Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project.
The Last Exorcism is about a Reverend who, after years of performing exorcisms, decides to make a documentary on his next exorcism which will be his last and helps out farmer, who wants the Reverend to drive the devil out of his daughter. The story should have worked as it’s so basic and simple, however even though the first thirty to forty minutes of the movie is quite interesting, the rest of the story tends to be boring and unsatisfying most of the time with some occasional good moments.
The Last Exorcism starts off as a documentary with the crew interviewing the Reverend’s family and him saying that he wants to show the world that exorcisms are nothing but trickery. After he meets the daughter and shows us how he fakes an exorcism, that’s when it stops becoming so interesting. Everybody knows and predicts that the Reverend will be shocked as his last exorcism is the one he must do for real but it’s such a shame that the scenes are done so sloppy. Everything from then on tries to scare you or make you jump and starts to slowly build-up only to lead to such a mediocre and slightly confusing ending and the trailer is like the best moments of the movie.
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