I've seen many movies and never I've turned it off after only 10 minutes

I'm an Atheist, and I thought it was an OK movie. Not that shabby.

The acting seemed as believable as anything else I've watched. I just compared it to several PBS real-world documentaries, and the actors come off the same as the real-world documentary subjects. I guess being in front of a camera makes most people somewhat stiff and self-conscious. I pick up on the same slight awkwardness in both the non-fictional and the fictional stuff.

By film's end, I still can't tell whether there was any actual supernatural hoodoo going on here. All I can tell for sure is that there are some messed-up people, and their level of messed-up-ness is definitely on display, here. That realistic type of problem scares me more than any would-be magic monster show.

No, this isn't anywhere near as lively and dynamic as an overtly supernatural program. It just isn't.

But it strikes me as more disturbing than any contrived, artificially constructed, traditional drama play, precisedly because it is about troubles that seem more realistic to me.

For those who criticize the changes of camera angle or the addition of music in this mocumentary: I see the same things in real-world PBS documentaries. There are also subtitles thrown in here and there to identify some of the characters. These things happen all the time. So the presence of such here in no way ruins it or undermines its viability as a mocumentary.

The fact that this movie is packaged/marketed as another found-footage piece in no way tells us that we are being shown the raw footage exactly as it was found, untouched. The film is only an hour-and-a-half long, and it's highly improbable that the mock film crew only recorded that much film in the multiple days over which this ordeal was supposed to have taken place. Therefore, the supposedly found footage was edited in some way before it got to us. Again, there is nothing damning or self-defeating with that.

That the movie ends so abruptly is also not a legitimate flaw. The mock film crew was caught as they were filming the ritual scene, so there's not much more raw footage for us to possibly see. It's perfectly fitting that the film/video tape/whatever got cut off right about where it did: at the same point where the film crew got various parts of their bodies cut off.

I guess if someone wants a movie that is well crafted with familiar, traditional story structure (expo, conflict, climax, & conclusion), then yeah, this movie fails. But that kind of expectation isn't really reasonable with the found-footage genre. You're wanting a bunch of supposedly raw, unfinished video to be so completely edited and produced as to deliver a totally finished-looking program. That doesn't fit. Found-footage pieces rest on some level of rawness or incompleteness. Exactly how raw or incomplete they are varies from film to film. But their amateur, rough, un-polished feel is their hallmark.

Should this movie win any awards? No.

But it wasn't the bad film that some of you have alleged, at all. So the specific criticisms leveled here don't really make much sense.

As for the nonspecific, generalized fluff criticisms and blanket dismissals: bah, whatevs.

I watched about 45m of it purely because I was doing the housework so was part paying attention and mostly not. This really was an awful movie. I actually dislike exorcism films as the formula is usually a stupid person acting like a spastic and being 'possessed', some religious nut trying to exorcise them and a suffering family. It all is pretty much the same story in the end..the demon tries to kill, maim or just throw things around the house and whatnot and in the end the person is exorcised...or so u may think to drag along a franchise and make the *beep* film more interesting.

Usually a total waste of time and boring and predictable as hell - usually this is the same with 99.9% of all vampire films too, i.e. unoriginal.

45m later I just had enough of brainless Smelly Nell and her stupid acting and I even had Last Exorcism 2 to watch after but I deleted them both after this.

Anyone who turns a movie off before the movie even really starts is an idiot. Sorry.

CG gore is the worst thing that has ever happened to the horror genre.

> This is a bad movie, bad acting coming from a horror movie fan

In some ways, it was supposed to be bad. The idea behind the movie was that it was unedited "found" footage of a film team following around a phony preacher. It wasn't supposed to be a slick, Hollywood production with well-rehearsed lines and good lighting and so on. It was kind of supposed to be bad.

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