The Last Exorcism (2010)

This film started off great but the ending was very disappointing. But overall an above Average horror film.

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...

The Pastor took a different view to a serious problem .... but when he realised the seriousness it was already over .. Shows how important the role of a Pastor is .. It is important to understand Church and Pastors are there to guide and help us, but it is our duty to be watchful and know the rotten eggs out there! Just because your Pastor says something that is not right, you don't need to follow it ... Anyone can be corrupt in the end days and this movie is a very raw and straightforward testimony for that brutal fact! Many think getting inside a church is the end of a problem related to the dark force, the solution is within ... Faith! Not outside ... find it and fight it with Him (God) by your side!

It was good and it was not good on many different levels. I liked the way it started but I thought it got a bit funny in the middle and then the ending was a good twist but also in a way and a cop out. I liked the performance given by the girl who was suffering from problems but I also think the film didn't represent the concept of an Exorcist film because a) the preacher didn't believe in Exorcism, and b) the graphics on the ad poster etc make you think it is one of the prequels/sequels to the Exorcist series of films when it isn't. Add bits of ad hoc video spam aka Blair Witch as maybe a homage to a "classic" that actually has weirdness to it or is it not a homage but an attempt to rip off a genre creating film? I kinda don't care-its like arguing about what defines a good a picnic table. There have been lots of horror films come and go and it is understood that its all in good fun and as such I think a film has to pack more of a punch and not make the audience feel they are stupid if they actually think God means something. It should mean more than a dumb bumper sticker-as such the film kind of maligns the idea of 'a good Christian' and paints Christians people as back woods dumb dumbs or charlatans. The original Exorcist film depicts a priest who is kind of a turd who gets the devil on his doorstep-is it karma? Maybe it is. A similar theme is dealt with by this film yet it is 'not affiliated' with the Exorcist movie. A rip off of a concept using a similar title & graphic style for the ads is to walk a precarious pathway. The girl in the movie won and award and the film was financially successful. Hooray for them. Not sure if I see this film as a keeper. Maybe not so much. A bit thin in the final analysis aka my bros and sisters liked it but I thought it needed something more. Like originality.