The Exorcist: Believer Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

 

It seems that the current trend in horror cinema is to revisit old horror films by doing not a remake but a direct sequel and with the recent Halloween trilogy being a hit. We now have that film trilogy's writer and director David Gordon Green back to fill in the same shoes for another classic horror movie only this is one that hasn't really been touched at least film wise since the nineteen nineties and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that really tries to copy the formular layed out by Halloween 2018 with the film in question being called simply just "The Exorcist: Believer" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when two best friends start acting differently it's up to their parents to figure out what's happening to hem and save their lives before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that'd actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as this films plot wasn't all that god with this films plot being at best boring and cliche and terrible at it'd worst in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil , Leslie Odom Jr. as Victor Fielding and Ann Dowd as Ann. Also starring in this film is Jennifer Nettles as Miranda , Norbert Leo Butz as Tony , Lidya Jewett as Angela Fielding , Olivia Marcum as Katherine , Okwui Okpokwasili as Dr. Beehibe , Raphael Sbarge as Don Revans , Danny McCarthy as Stuart , E.J. Bonilla as Father Maddox and Tracey Graves as Sorenne Fielding.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films cast turning in some really good performances which wasn't really all that shocking as this films writer and director David Gordon Green really does know how to get a good performance out of his cast but the cast aren't really helped by the fact that this films script just isn't that good and so they can;t real;y turn in a good performance as this films script just won't allow for it.

For the absolute life of me I cannot find out anywhere online which companies actually did the CGI for this film. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with this film using far to much CGI when practical effects not only would have been cheaper to use but they also would look really better as practical effects always look better then CGI making things worse is the fact that this film makes alot of use of CGI and so you can quite clearly tell when there using CGI.

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I left a name of this review when I was listing who was starring in this movie with that name being Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil. With it being the fact that she was in this movie that made me turn this review into a SPOILER FILLED review sadly tho she's only in the movie for one scene near the end of the movie but considering that for a long time it looked like that we weren't even getting her in the movie at all i'd gladly take just one scene over nothing and with there already at least two confirmed sequels to be development this one scene could now lead to her having a main starring role in one of the two sequels.

This film does try to keep the theme of family that was present in the first film but it fails to do as the family in the first film was built up over time. Which just simply isn't the case with this film as withing the first twenty or so minuets of this film the girls have already been processed and we had so little time with them and their respective families and so that theme of family gets lost as we don't get to see that much of how they act when there with their family which is odd as when we do get one of those scenes they are some really good scenes but there so few and far between and they add very little to the girls characters or to their parents characters.

This film is trying so hard to recapture the magic of the first film that it forgets to be it's own thing be it from recreating shocking scenes from the first movie in this one to openly mocking lines of the first films dialog. All of which make the movie feel alot, more like a bad fan fiction as there's nothing unique to this film outside of the core concept of having two people getting possessed and that's not really enough as more doesn't always mean better the first film understood that and gave us unique concepts and ideas that changed the world of horror that we are to this very day still seeing where this film is just copying what other more recent horror films have dine and not doing any thing new or unique with it's themes or ideas.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty four minuets and fifty six seconds. If the first film had the problem of being far to long then this film has the opposite problem as it's far to short and as a result of that the film has no time to build up tension or dread as the film has to rush along to it's next plot point and jump scare but I will give the film this it does makes the most of that running time and it does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time it would have really helped the film tho if it took it's time a bit more tho just to let tension and dread build up which would made the scares mire effective and I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual horror that's actually featured // presented tom us in this very film well then in all honesty I in,all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as it wasn't all that god either. As this films horror could get pretty creepy in parts but because of the fact that there's no tension or a sense of dread both of which was oozing in the first film the scares that this film does have aren't scary as they perhaps could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this film had all of the potential to be a really good film but instead just couldn't reach that potential as all it did was copy what other recent horror films of this kind have been doing and that's really it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that earns that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and and gentleman I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

The Exorcist 1973 Film Review

 

When it comes to cinema there are so few horror films that can actually have some weight to the claim that they are the scariest film ever made. Well the film that i'm about to review for you all today is one such film as even tho i've never seen this film before this review I can now truly see why many claim this film to be one of the scariest films ever made and with the new film coming out in just a few short days I thought that now was the absolutely right time to check this film and so then join me as I review the film that made Linda Blair a household name with the film in question being called simply just "The Exorcist" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a mother finds out that her daughter is processed she sets about getting this evil spirit out of her daughter with the help of two priests. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the plot being alot better then what I thought that it would be as well as being alot more engaging then what I thought that it would be as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil , Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil and Max Von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin. Also starring in his film is Lee J. Cobb as Lieutenant William F. Kinderman , Kitty Winn as Sharon Spencer , Jack MacGowran as Burke Dennings , Jason Miller as Father / Dr. Damien Karras, S.J. , Father William O'Malley as Father Joseph Dyer , Barton Heyman as Dr. Samuel Klein , Peter Masterson as Dr. Barringer , Rudolf Schündler as Karl , Vasiliki Maliaros as Mrs. Karras , Titos Vandis as John , Wallace Rooney as Bishop Michael , Ron Faber as Chuck and The Voice of Pazuzu , Donna Mitchell as Mary Jo Perrin , Dick Callinan as Captain Billy Cutshaw and Mercedes McCambridge as The Voice of Pazuzu.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us n this very film was in all honesty really good. With this this films acting being alot better then what I thought that it would be and what really helps the acting is not only the fact that this films cast are a bunch of genuinely really good actors and actresses but also the fact that this films script is really good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and good performance will come out of them naturally.

Of course this film is adapted from the 10971 novel of the exact same name which was also written by this films writer and producer William Peter Blatty. From what little information I can gather about both the book and the film this film adaptation is a very faithful adaptation of the book which is something that you very rarely get to see but it's something that does make sense when you take into account that the books author was heavily involved with getting this movie made even like I said writing the films screenplay and producing the film himself but there is a downside to that and that is the fact that this film does have alot of scenes that don't add to the plot or it's characters and are scenes that could have been left out the film as a whole.

To me what is key to making this film work is the relationship between Chris and Regan as without you buying the as a mother and daughter all the creepy stuff that happens later on in the film just doesn't mean all that much. This is why the early scenes with them just being a mother and daughter are key to making this film because it's due to those scenes that we get to buy into them as a mother and daughter which means that when Chris gets scared we get scared and when Regan is finally free from her possession at the end of the film we feel joy to finally them together again and all of that just wouldn't be possible if we couldn't buy them as a mother and daughter.

As seems to be par the course it seems with the rest of this franchise this film suffered from production issues. From actors getting injured to actors dying anything that could happen during the production of this movie most likely did happen so much so that it led many to believe that the film was cursed which just goes to show you that alot of possession films are cursed as the same thing also happened during the making of the Poltergeist movies as well which does make me wonder if both films were indeed cursed as having those events happen on one film could just be a freak of nature but having it happen on two separate films that just seems like to much of a coincidence for it not to be true in someway shape or form. 

As much as I really do love this and as much as alot of the shots in this film belong on the OnePerfectShot X account. This film was incredibly boring with alot of scenes being in their not to add to the plot of the movie but just being in their just because the makers of the film wanted them in their which did make the film feel like a chore a sit through and while this film really does earn the title of one of the scariest films ever made just due to hoe hyped up this film has been over the decades it just wasn't all that creepy or scary and while the makers of the film can't stop the fans from talking about the film they really could have added alot more scenes in the film that do really add to the overall plot of the film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and twelve minuets and twenty one seconds. As yes I am doing this review based of off the directors cut of the movie but even with that mind this film is far to long then what it really needs to be with the opening twenty minuets not adding anything to the overall plot of the film and it's those twenty minuets that are just so boring to watch and to sit through and I get it you have to sit through the boring stuff in order for the scary stuff to make sense but the those opening twenty minuets are just so dull and boring and when you also add in the fact that this film really doesn't have alot of story there to cover that large amount of running time it makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose to make this film really as long as it is with this not really being helped by the fact that this film really does have some pretty bad pacing to it.

So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk abut the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film were in all honesty not that bad. With this film having some genuinely creepy moments in it but to me what makes this film scary isn't Regan turning head all the way around or Regan doing a spider walk but the very idea of a loved one becoming possessed by something that is truly evil and not being able to do anything to help them and it's that very idea that makes this film a really creepy and at times scary film for me in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while I can see why alot of people really do like this film and while I am glad to have finally seen this film it was just a really dull film and at times a very boring film as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at lest. ow then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got al of the images tat I personally used in this review from Wikipedia , IMP Awards . Com and google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.