Very Cool!!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I thought I'd watch a good horror flick on a foggy evening at home. Well, I watched about 1/4 of this film, and gave up to watch re-runs. I hardly ever do this usually watching anything through to the end. I then watched the rest the next day, just to see if I missed something - Nope! Was this a high school project? Did anyone in the production ever go to film school? The story starts out sort of interesting with a girl cutting herself in a sort of flashback. Then family scenes with teenage angst and a sort of goth teen angle. So I thought maybe this would explore psychological problems of modern teens and frame it as demonic possession. Well, it does, sort of... It just skims the surface, and then the plot becomes ridiculous. The demon-possessed girl goes around recking havoc on everyone, yet is just allowed to go about her daily routine! It's nearly laughable, but not quite. Then lets talk about the characters... I wanted all of them to be killed, just to shut them up. They seem to act randomly - without really following any track. And lastly, the shaky camera of Cinéma vérité - come now! This should only be used for certain reasons. I assume the film maker wanted this to make us feel closer to the story, but it's actually distractive and alienating. If this camera work is supposed to represent the view of a character in the story - who could this be? I am not a fan of this type of camera work in nearly any film - but here it's really misused. It's not at all documentarial, nor are we following a missing third person - so it just makes me sea sick! There is a line near the end of the film - sorry I don't want to re-watch to find it!, but it's something like "Someone has to stop this" and I thought this should be the tagline!

Emma is a home-schooled teen who one day cuts herself. It's thought that it's because she wants to be in school with her friends. One day she has a seizure and foams out of her mouth. Doctors don't find anything wrong with her. Her secular and modern parents send her to a psychologist who ends up dead. Emma knows that something is wrong with her and visits her uncle who is a priest. He recognizes that she's possessed. Emma is willing to undergo an exorcism. Her parents don't agree until she has another seizure and levitates.The exorcism will take several session to be performed by the uncle who has been actually kicked out of the church for the death of his previous exorcism patient. Meanwhile, whenever the devil takes over and Emma is with someone else, that other person doesn't end up well. The priest recognizes the he alone won't be able to cast out the devil. He also films the sessions. The parents are still in disbelief until one day the father interrupts a session only to actually see for himself how possessed she is. Things get deadlier for the family and we learn some darker secrets about the priest and Emma.Exorcismus was produced by Spanish production company Filmax which specializes in high quality, lower budget, good-natured, PG-13 horror movies, where the behavior of the characters is far less believable than the horror. This is their take on the exorcism genre, although the exorcisms aren't all that much at the center of the movie, "Possession" would be a more apt title. It follows the Filmax recipe, it won't offend anyone's sensibilities, is well directed, and has a European/Spanish feel to it.The first third of the movie is very strong. It has its creepy moments, the hand-held camera-work is great and so is the digital sound. The heavily discolored look of the movie, however, is annoying. It doesn't manage to keep the interest or pace as things become less interesting during the second third for some reason, even though that's when stuff starts happening. The last third improves a bit as we learn why the girl really cut herself at the beginning of the movie. And we learn why the priest is so highly motivated to act. What I liked about it was that everything takes place during the day, even outdoors. This devil isn't scared of the sun or of public places. No lame night scenes, rain, thunder, lights going out and all the clichés that plague every single American horror movie. Exorcismus is enjoyable but it doesn't break any new ground, which is something that this type of movie needs at this point, although Sophie Vavasseur's understated performance is excellent.

This film is about a girl who gets possessed by an evil spirit and weird things start happening: the usual exorcism story line formula.The presentation of this setting for an exorcism movie though was extremely flawed at some parts though and the first half hour of the movie honestly bored me and felt cheesy at timesThe next half an hour of the movie was the best part of it though, good raw exorcism takes and good demon possession acting made me anticipate more.However the next half an hour the story took a bit of a twist and left me feeling kinda dry and disappointed.Put it this way, if you like exorcism movies check it out...but don't think you'll be watching an amazing new horror movie cause this is not it. If the movie stuck to the pure original exorcism style movie without trying to be different it probably would have been much better.

According to IMDb, I wasted 98mins of my life for this cinematic, genre-sullying piece of drivel. Best suited for audiences who enjoy: 1. Horror movies that are both dumb and annoying 2. Watching terrible acting at its finest 3. Scary movies that aren't scary so they can savour the irony.4. 'Simple' movies post lobotomy operation.In terms of possession movies, the original Exorcist is still the best - by a long shot. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (7/10), and more recently, The Last Exorcism (also 7/10) are better choices.