Rating: 3/5
The idea of "found footage" movies kind of annoy me. I mean, if quarantine even tried to be real, why didn't they do a like investigation or a fake newspaper? And if Blair Witch was such a serious thing, why didn't the police get involved? And in Cloverfield, how were they people still holding a camera??
Ok rant over. Cotton Marcus is a faith challenged minister who wants to prove that while Christianity and god are real, exorcism is a bunch of hooey. Then, he gets a letter from the Sweetzer farm, the patriarch of which claims his daughter Nell is possessed by Satan himself. Cotton travels with a hired crew to the farm, in order to document proof that exorcism as a practice is all a pile of BS.
After the first "exorcism," everything seems to be going fine. But then, weird things start happening. Nell is getting up at night and screaming. They have video evidence of her killing livestock, and suddenly Cotton starts to believe a little more in demonology. This is usually the part where I talk about how freaky the movie gets, but I'd be lying.
Maybe I have to see it again at midnight or something, but The Last Exorcism is not scary. It creates a great atmosphere of dread of what might happen, but never really follows through. Now, how are the characters? Engaging and realistic. How's the acting? Great. Is it written well? You betcha. How's the camerawork? Realistic. It just didn't scare me or creep me out or anything.
Overall I blame the non-scaryness on 3 things. 1: I saw it in the day time. 2: during creepy parts, cheesy horror music suddenly comes in. 3: the ending comes completely out of left field, doesn't make sense in the context of the movie, and is just stupid. I leave the final decision to see it or not up to you.
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