Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching EXORCIST BELIEVER

Because of David Gordon Green's uneven Halloween trilogy, I wasn't expecting much from his newest 70s reboot.
Didn't get much. Thoroughly generic exorcism/possession movie that just happens to share a title with, you know. A Muppet Babies cover of one of the greatest horror movies of all...you know the rest.
Didn't hate it, mainly due to cratered expectation but it stays a Meh-xorcist until its probable sequel unless it tanks at the box-office.
Until then I guess we'll all have to wait in eager anticipation for David Gordon Green to put in a Violent Marching Band to fight Pazuzu which is totally a serious thing and not at all derisively hilarious.

"PAZUZU DIES TONIGHT" Repeat 400 times.

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A ★★½ review of The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

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Oct 10, 2023 at 5:47pmWeb
Show threadKevin C 🎬Oct 10, 2023

@NoelJPenaflor
I enjoyed it #ExorcistBeliever. It had a couple of decent jump scares, and I liked the move away from the Catholic church into a more general Christian/humanistic ideology.

Mostly, the pace and direction felt very much like the original. The sequels all seemed to be trying to up the spectacle with more effects (although I did really enjoy #Exorcist3 just for it's banter).