The Last Exorcism (2010)

A lot of fun.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I had such high hopes for this movie...and no...I wasn't expecting horror; at all.What I was expecting, was something grand...and what I got was disdainfully disappointing.The movie started out, bland, but good and I was thinking, okay...this charlatan is going to pull one too many frauds and get what's coming to him. He'll get a real possessed person, the demons will give him more than he bargained for, and I'll laugh, hysterically, because TV evangelists and fake preachers just out for money (which is far too many) are depraved.What I got was a fairly decent movie, with a ridiculous ending.I went from being hopeful at some scum getting his butt supernaturally kicked...to a bunch of people, lead by some old coot, playing dress up.Robes? Really? If I came upon a scene like that, first thing I'd do is make sure it's not Halloween, second, make sure it's not a movie set and...finally...if both of those scenarios weren't the case, I'd laugh... hysterically.Robes and all that junk are nothing but pomp and show, and no one serious, is going to play dress up dressed like Merlin and his magical court. Waste...waste...waste...

A film crew are documenting the life of Reverand Cotton Marcus, a preacher in Louisiana whose specialty is exorcisms. One day they accompany him on an exorcism and things don't all go according to plan...So-so movie. Was original and interesting for the first half, then drifted a bit, and then had a tangential and quick ending. The suspense that was built up wonderfully in the first half is all given up in the second half. In short, the pacing was off.Pretty scary though, and thus better than your average supernatural- horror movie. Performances are fairly solid, especially as none of the actors are well-known.

This movie so not scary. 5.6 is just overrating it. This movie has a very bad story line. The ending is is just awful. It is supposed to scary. But is not. It is just cheesy and overrated. It the story of a single father who has daughter that possessed by a demon. So he hires an exorcist to get ride of it. Oops it turns out he a fake. It hate this movie. I do not no why people are scared of it. It could not scary an eight year old. It so not scary. It has got to be one of the worst horror movies ever. Come to think of it the sequel is worst. But still before The last exorcism par II came out this was the worst horror movie ever.

Evangelical reverend and showman Cotton Marcus has a plan to expose the concept of 'exorcism' as the farce he believes it to be. This, as you might imagine, is asking for trouble. He reveals to camera his 'box of tricks' (steaming crucifixes, sound effects etc) that will prove how gullible people are. Patrick Fabian is excellent as the fast-talking Cotton. The reverend is initially arrogant, cocooned in the high-energy joy he brings to his congregation despite not entirely believing his own words, but gradually becomes aware that events are bigger than he can possibly handle.In 'Blair Witch' fashion, we are treated to interviews from the locals conducted by Cotton as he makes his way to where the exorcism is due to take place. Not all of them are friendly. One of the least amenable happens to be the son of the family for whom the exorcism is to be carried out. Indeed, one local's proclamation that the house in question contains 'the gates of hell' is alarmingly prosaic.When we meet the victim, Nell, allegedly under a demon's possession, she is virginal and shy. Actress Ashley Bell overplays Nell's wide-eyed innocence and wholesome smile … but then, we are meant to find her unnaturally good, in comparison to what comes later.I enjoy horror films, but I only find a handful of them truly frightening. One is 'The Exorcist' which, as you may imagine, this shares similarities with – and this is another. Familiarity does not make the images of a young girl getting progressively more violent, unearthly and demonic any easier to watch. The look of horror on the face of her father, her (also very unnerving) brother (a brilliant performance from Caleb Landry-Jones) and Cotton himself is communicated very well to the audience.Rather desperately, Cotton clings to the notion that – even despite bone crunching distortions (all performed without a stunt double) – the girl is not possessed by a demon but by shame. She is pregnant, and is terrified to reveal this to her God-fearing father.It is ultimately revealed (and this is a SPOILER) that not only is Nell actually possessed (by a demon called Abalam), but (in true Wicker Man style) the entire neighbourhood is in on it also. When her new-born baby is thrown upon an open fire which apparently gives true life to Abalam, as a viewer, I am actually relieved – because up until that point, 'The Last Exorcism' had me just where it wanted me, figuratively watching behind my fingers, such was the power of performance and production. But the ending entered into a world of the fantastic, a revelation too far, that ripped the carefully built-up realism from the piece. Not that the climax isn't effective – it's just unnecessary when it serves to break the spell of what we had seen up till that point. The glimpse of an entity in the burgeoning flames is the only example of CGI in the film.That bastion of decency, the UK Censor – who even since the 1930's, has been a thorn in the side of horror pictures – banned the promotional poster because of its 'offensive' imagery. As is often the case, such reassuring suppression only helped fuel its success enough for a sequel, also starring Ashley Bell, in 2013.