This is one in a long line of 70's Exorcism rip offs. The problem is that this movie is awful. The child actor is ridiculous. Her performance in every frame is totally unconvincing in the shadow of Linda Blair's incredible performance. Waste of 150 minutes of my life.
sharelol @ all the "but it's not about exorcism possession!" defense replies. It's same exact formula as The Exorcist with a few superficial tweaks.
A sweet young girl is experiencing some kind of trauma that seems to be a mental disorder but is actually super natural.
Tons of scenes of the poor little girl lying in her bed and night and her fretful jittery parents hovering around trying to figure out what to do.
In The Exorcist, she has a single mother. In AR, she has a mom and a dad.
In The Exorcist, she is helped by a priest. In AR, she is helped by the father of her soul's previous incarnation.
OH BUT ITS NOT ABOUT DEMON POSSESSION SO THEREFORE ITS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT UNIQUE ORIGINAL STORY