I've never seen this movie and I was wondering what everyone's opinion of it is. I am trying to find some eerie/creepy horror films to watch. Thank you very much!
With the recent release of yet ANOTHER exorcism movie that flopped, It's kind of got me thinking about Demonic Possession/exorcism as a horror subgenre.
To me, I think the major thing that The Exorcist, The Exorcist III Legion, and The Exorcist 2016 did that made those three things superior to any other demonic possession/exorcism movie was that it made the demon into a character as opposed to just some scary spooky monster that makes people act crazy.
An example would be how in The Exorcist 2016, how Pazuzu manifested himself to Casey as someone she could trust and someone who promised that he would take care of her and protect her, only to worm his way in and start taking total control of her. Pazuzu presented himself to Casey in a similar way as her mother from the 1973 film. A missing father figure. Regan's father was physically absent from her life due to a divorce while Casey's father had suffered brain damage due to a concussion and was mentally absent from her life.
Also, I think that the lines that the demon said in The Exorcist 2016 were bone chillingly brilliant. "Hell? Do you know what hell even is, Regan? It's where your daughter is right now...In a room with no windows, nailed to the floor, alone forever knowing it was her mother who put her there.....but don't worry, there's room for two...." Also in that same episode, I also thought it was really brilliant for the demon to reveal one of Angela/Regan's deepest secrets to a whole bunch of priests and nuns, that before Kat and Casey were born, Regan got pregnant and had an abortion (big no no in the catholic church) due to fear of what could happen to her children.
However, one of the things that I've noticed about modern exorcism movies is that they try WAY too hard to be spoopy and scary that it almost comes off as comical. It's pretty much this formula, have a posessed girl in a nightgown be tied up or chained down in some dark, dank dungeon or abandoned building, or spooky gothic church, have a priest shouting prayers and splashing holy water while the girl simply screams, convulses, and acts more like a mental patient than a possessed person. Then something goes wrong and everyone dies, the end. And that is literally every possession movie that tries to brand itself as "Scarier than The Exorcist".
Exorcist: The Beginning from 2004 almost suffers from the same problem, and that's technically considered the canon prequel to The Exorcist, Exorcist III and Exorcist 2016. (Dominion w
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In the film Sgt Howie meets the requirement of the sacrifice because
"he came of his own free will, with "the power of a king" (by representing the Law), is a virgin, and is a fool".
At the least the last one of those requirements can be disputed surely? In what way is Sgt Howie a "fool". He can to the island in order to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, this is commendable and so is Howie coming of his own free will. All it means is that he is a decent and dedicated police officer?
I mean yes he is judgemental of the villagers customs but his own suspicions that they are up to great malice is simply proved correct, plus he is looking for a young child that has to the best of his knowledge had all sorts of evil acts committed upon it and the villagers are being very obstructive. Not only are the villagers committing murder they are wasting the time of a police officer who might have some important duty to be getting on with, like investigating rape or murder.
Is the interpretation that Sgt Howie whether he is 'uptight' or not, is a fundamentally decent and actually quite kind individual who is taken advantage of in a particularly despicable and evil way not valid?
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So I caught American Graffiti at a movie theater the other day that has a Tuesday Night Classics sort of night. I liked the movie, being a fan of Robert Altman/Dazed and Confused type films, and I really enjoyed this.
Until the end. Now, I am a believer in the idea that Lucas understands what he's doing on a technical level, but he is deaf to story and emotion. And until the end, I was almost convinced that this wasn't always the case. Until after the ending shot, after a night of reflection, growth, and good ol fashioned hijinx, the film ends with one of those "This is where the characters are now" title cards. 2 of them had died, 1 of them had a shitty desk job, and one was living as a writer.
I understand the intent behind this. Lucas wanted to show just how America was losing it's "innocence" that we perceived we had in the 50's and early 60's. But good god there was nothing in the film that suggest that the country was heading in that direction. I would understand if we could see the foreshadowing of the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam war, and Civil Rights, but next to none of that was in the movie. It just made that ending graphic so contrasting to the feel and tone of the film.
Am I the only one who thinks this? My theater went kind of silent as that was on screen and I'm not sure if anyone else feels this way.
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