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I'm very glad it's proven itself to be a financial success. Although critics tore it apart, people wanted to make up their own minds so they've seen it anyway and I think that's great. Now it's made nearly 3 times its budget.
It's doing great in theaters. It doesn't need to wait for Blu-ray/DVD/digital and streaming. It has made about 3 times its budget worldwide already and it still has time left to make more.
Vera Miles is alive but she is 94 and hasn't done a movie in 28 years. Who knows what her health could be like at that age? Maybe it's worth a phone call for David. The most they could do is say "no."
It doesn't necessarily have to be a child even. It can be an adult or even an animal. No need for the franchise to pigeonhole itself by doing the same thing over and over.
You could argue that for most horror franchises. Halloween, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wrong Turn, Leprechaun, the list goes on and on... All killing just for the sake of it. Scream tries to give the killers big, elaborate motives for each movie. But even those are starting to get repetitive. The same reasons, just different characters.
<spoiler>Linda Blair is in it at the very end. Regan is estranged from Chris because Chris wrote a book about the events that happened in the original movie. Regan disapproved because she wanted a private life. But Chris never gave up hope that she would come back into her life someday. At one point Chris gets her eyes stabbed out with a crucifix by one of the demon possessed girls who also tries to tell her Regan is dead. At the end there is an unknown person who comes to visit her in the hospital. Chris assumes it's the father of one of the possessed girls, and then we see it's Regan who says "No, Mom. It's me" and holds her hand. </spoiler>
I know it was originally supposed to release this weekend but they moved it one week early because Taylor Swift decided to release her concert movie on the 13th and they knew her fans would pack every theater in the country. So I unfortunately don't think any other movie besides hers will make much money, but we'll see. I hope it does well worldwide, too.
It's creepy to think that people who are part of your life could be conspiring against you and you don't even know it. And you can't stop it because you don't know how big the cult is or who's part of it so you don't know who you can trust.
It's a documentary about her tour I believe. But her fans are going to crowd out every movie theater in the country and nothing else will make much money except for it.
Exorcist: The Beginning is worse. This isn't a bad movie. It doesn't reach the intensity of the original but what does? It is entertaining and I hope it is financially successful despite the bad reviews and that Universal won't cancel the sequels.
That stupid Taylor Swift movie is going to wipe away all the money anything can make domestically after this weekend, so hopefully it can do great worldwide. If not, the new Exorcist maze at Halloween Horror Nights will make back a lot of that $400 million they bought the rights for.
1. The Exorcist
2. Exorcist II: The Heretic
3. The Exorcist: Believer
4. Exorcist III
5. Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist
6. Exorcist: The Beginning
I think that if they really did spend $400 million on the rights, they've got to make them to get as much of that back as they possibly can.
Halloween II really did end his mainstream film career. Everything after has had very limited theatrical releases. None have played anywhere near me. But they've all had pretty small budgets so I would hope that between whatever they made in the few theaters they played in and then DVD/Blu-ray and streaming, they were able to turn some kind of profit. But as for his future, I unfortunately think it's a bad sign that when asked in an interview if he would make a Munsters sequel, he said "no" and that he was going to focus on music for the time being. Not even a "we'll see" or "maybe." Just "no."
I would love it to be like Exorcist II; a beautiful, surreal, dreamlike work of art.
I am normally a big fan of found footage movies and I am inclined to agree. While I didn't hate this movie, I feel the found footage angle may have held back the story back from going where it needed to go. For one thing, the parents should've put away the camera and tried to enlist some outside help a lot sooner. It annoyed me how whatever awful thing the kids did, the parents pretty much just said "oh my God!" and didn't do anything. Things just went back to normal until whatever next terrible deed they did. And it was clearly because the parents had to keep the camera running or else there wouldn't be a movie.
But there were some good and creepy moments, too. So it really wasn't all bad.
The movie is just okay, nothing great. The "no-dialogue" gimmick got old within 5 minutes. People talk even when they're alone. It seemed like they wanted to remake A Quiet Place, complete with the monsters. That alien with the giant praying mantis legs looked like it came straight out of that movie.
I was more afraid of the faceless "telephone repairmen" walking through the wall.
Is there any reason why they shouldn't?