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David Gordon Green being replaced?
Will this ever be released?
Will it ever be released?
Halloween Ends underperforms at the box office
Marilyn Munster?
Eddie and Marilyn
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I enjoyed it as well. I think people bashed it simply for being an exorcism film. It is not the most popular horror subgenre these days, as people feel there have been way too many the past 10-15 years and think "they're all the same." It's become trendy to hate exorcism movies just as it was trendy to hate "torture porn" in the 2000s.
But I thought there was a lot to enjoy in this one. One thing that sets it apart is that it is written and directed by the son of Jason Miller, Father Karras in The Exorcist. I felt that helped him bring in a unique perspective, as he would've grown up with the most famous exorcism movie in the world always in the background of his life. And I enjoyed the references to his father's film, particularly "the Exorcist curse." Also, coming from a dysfunctional family with lots of estrangement, the themes of redemption and forgiveness really resonated with me. As did the speech at the ending about how just because someone forgives doesn't mean the pain of what happened goes away, nor does the guilt from knowing the pain you've caused.
The killer in the backseat
The 2nd story, Humans Can Lick Too.
With the wraparound segment, I knew those kids were really dead from an accident the moment they set foot out of the car. That twist has been recycled in anthology films many, many times. But I do like it a lot other than the predictable ending.
It must just be a matter of your personal taste. I've enjoyed many horror films about creepy kids such as Village of the Damned, Who Can Kill A Child?, Joshua, The Omen, Devil Times Five, Brightburn, Goodnight Mommy, etc. I even enjoyed this one. It works, it just doesn't work for you just as romantic comedies don't work for me. So I don't watch them.
Apparently there will be 2 more "strangers" with different masks in the future ones.
It bugged me that no one seemed to notice or care the maintenance man was missing. No one seemed to be looking for him or seemed too bothered about his disappearance, as they never really mentioned it any further. You'd think the police would easily be able to find the address he was supposed to be working at on that day, the same house that was broken into recently, and put 2 and 2 together. But no one seemed to care much.
Also it wouldn't have taken them very long to find the boyfriend's bloody corpse in that public restroom either. How did the family not hear anything about that? News travels fast this day and age. That's 2 people connected to this family (whose house was broken into) missing/dead and the cops don't follow up on it? This killer seems to be able to murder people and then nobody really cares that they're dead. I guess he's good at picking his victims, choosing people that nobody will care are gone.
That is what bothered me the most besides the killer being annoying and wasting a lot of time doing stupid stuff for no apparent reason.
Yes, the killer got on my nerves after a while. He was creepy at first but after a while I was thinking "Would you just get on with it and do whatever you're going to do?" It just seemed like he was doing a lot of stupid and pointless stuff for no reason.
I'm disappointed but not surprised. It was overshadowed by 2 other religious themed horror movies coming out right before it (Immaculate and Late Night With the Devil) for one. Then you have some of the hate for The Exorcist: Believer spilling over. It is still very fresh in peoples' minds so they probably thought "Oh great. Another generic supernatural horror movie trying to make money off a classic." It is just bad timing all the way around.
It needed Eddie and Marilyn desperately. I get that it was a prequel and he wanted to tell a story that had never been told before, but it doesn't seem like there was enough story there to fill a 2 hour movie. Eddie and Marilyn had to enter the family somehow, so they should've been in it. Without them it felt like a kids' movie without any kid characters for its audience to relate to. And if it's too juvenile for adults, but too mature for kids, then who exactly is the intended audience?
I thought I was probably the only one who noticed.
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