The Exorcism
The Exorcism
May William Friedkin find everlasting peace. It is on record that the successful director was married for 3 times, and the Oscar that is in the collection of William Friedkin is for the movie The French Connection; however that was not the only movie fоr which he оbtained аn Oscar nomination Martin Straka: The Exorcist 1973. The legacy continues, and here’s why – The original and its fantastic cast, as for instance, Jason Miller among others who played father Karras in the movie (as well as in The Exorcist III). Almost a quarter century later, the actor’s son is now making his own possession horror movie, with an almost identical premise but a different name — The Exorcism. A new film of director Joshua John Miller based on an uber-meta script he completed with M.A. Fortin premiered in the week this one is published. It most likely is not what you would expect, particularly if you have the impression that it is simply a reproduction of The Exorcist.
Indeed, and this shall be further explained later, The Exorcism is a more of critique of the Exorcist and the horror movie genre. the relation of the Geolocation and the actor extend from director Joshua John Miller to actor Jason Miller alluding to the reason why the title of the film was The Georgetown Project: col Friedkin exorcist betting. This 2024 film has thus been created over the meta view in the possession style, sending Russell Crowe on a journey of yet another exorcism story but in a sad twist of fate it is not the 2023’s The Pope’s Exorcist, it is Anthony who is a has been actor cast as a priest in a Catholic church movie.
The final product doesn’t have the same knockdown impact you’re likely to expect, although a few good supporting performances and the meta movie style may be enough to entertain you.
First thing’s first, Miller knows how to handle the camera in terms of direction. Just watch that exquisite first shot where the nameless actor (the one who had been hired to play the priest and is now practicing against a camera inside the film) waltz around the film sets of the movie- in a movie. It serves the great purpose of a prologue to a film about the film which itself is likely cursed (something like the last film by David Lynch – Inland Empire).
For their part, Miller and writing partner Fortin have now completed two meta scripts after The Final Girls (2015). How about a trilogy? Miller has confessed that this present work is an ‘FU letter to Hollywood’, the first and last work in the 40 years in Hollywood he has spent (just like his father, Miller has appeared in cult horror films, such as Halloween III: Season of the Witch and Near Dark). It has been speculated that a third installment will crystallize the elements in The Final Girls and The Exorcism that were positive.
Nonetheless, The Exorcism does offer a few more advantages, other than the superb starting segment, in which we see Adam Goldberg in the role of Peter, the sexist filmmaker of the movie that is now being prepared for Anthony, who is the new recruit after the first one disappeared for no apparent reason. This is clearly depicted in one of the scenarios where most of the questions that remain unanswered do make it okay to have certain gaps of the storyline. More specifically, it is curious that Anthony doesn’t appear to seek an awful lot of information about the reason why the first hire pulled out. There is another classic example of this in the losing act about those wasted fifteen minutes, but that is mostly minor.
Perhaps questions like this do not trouble Anthony more than something else does, which is perhaps due to the fact that he has an addiction and has hit a rough patch in his reputation and career. So, he is all too pleased when the moment arises. He even ropes his ex-communicated daughter Lee (Ryan Simpkins) into the production as a PA.
Lee continues holding himself intimately with the team member, BlakeWho (the hot-faced Chloe Bailey; sister to Halle). However, the juicier hook is shared in Peters’s parents’ on-set abuse towards the shoulders of Anthony during the shoot. That is the tension Goldberg (Saving Private Ryan, Fargo) presumably relished, when as a director, he chewed Anthony for not delivering the desired performance, appearing aware of many of Anthony’s troubled issues including but not limited to child neglect and drug abuse. Adam Goldberg here is a revelation and portrays some sexier Hollywood structures of management which Miller knows very well as an actor in horror films.
Then there is Frasier year’s David Hyde Pierce as a father and a consulting Priest on the fake movie the team is trying so hard to accomplish. His genial, funny and cute off the screen father Conor also acts in The Exorcism as something of a bright spot for the movie. It is also an advantage because Pierce really does have a certain appealing quality about her.
For parts of the film production that Anthony is not losing himself to and trying to separate illusion from reality, his daughter and others are quite concerned about relapses and other evil forces on set. Fortunately, Father Conor can assuage those fears. It’s just a pity that, in horror films, it rarely turns out well.
It is even more embarrassing that one of the problems in The Exorcism is that it wastes such a great star. Once again, Avatar graduate Sam Worthington takes on the role of such a priest, a replacement for Anthony (yes director Peter will never let this actor play the priest). Avatar alum Sam Worthington plays Joe a handsome recognized actor that gets the chance of coming to bat only when Anthony treads over into bedridden insanity brought about by malignant forces.
Although the participation of Sam Worthington is not quite satisfying as he appears on screen for quite a little while, the bright side is that there’s more space for the Australian actor Crowe who has already won the Academy Award twice and definitely seems to mean the work and hopes to even compensate the rather sketchy character of the rest of the movie. Words like “tour de force” spring to your mind when cogitating on that specific gift of acting possessed by Russell Crowe. Actually, such words could be used to describe Russell’s acting part in The Exorcism as well. There is something very close when it comes to the work to calling the tension an anxiety. There is a tangential angle taking up the mention of his unkempt honesty which the viewers will find captivating.
Unfortunately, such lowbrow embarrassment to suspense as horror has done to the meta film, particularly in its third part, which is also disappointing in terms of ending: everything is too structurely complete in a way such that some loose ends definitely do not leave any reader irritated or wanting more. Still, we would be interested to see why next the writing pair let’s mention Fortin and Miller is up to, self reflexive or not.
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- Genre: Family, horror, Popular Movies, Top Rated Movies
- Country: United States
- Director: Joshua John Miller
- Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, David Hyde Pierce, Tracey Bonner, Marcenae Lynette, Joshua John Miller, Hallie Samuels, Samantha Mathis, Anna Maria Reyer, Jayden Fontaine, Zach Padlo, Josh Warren, Hannah Black, Joya Joseph, Scott Rapp, Jobie James, Robert Fortunato,
