Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

PodBill Just what I expected

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Christopher Evans This film is a total waste of time. The premise is there is a preacher who is charging people to do exorcisms which he fakes, convincing himself he is doing them a favour (as well as taking their money!) by letting them feel he has got rid of their demons. He allows two people to film him in his last exorcism which ends up going wrong. Well there is zero film-making skill on show, zero of interest happens and the ending is a joke.The film is shot in a supposed documentary style but nobody in 2010 would have such poor quality filming even on an old camcorder or their mobile phone let alone an actual supposed documentary film-maker. It is grainy, grey, blurry and has zero visual quality. It looks like it cost nothing at all to make.The story is extremely boring. Nothing happens basically. It is not an intelligent, thought provoking drama and it is not a fun horror film. There are no exciting moments, no fun horror scenes, no tension, no good dialogue. It just ambles along like an extremely dull late night cable TV documentary. The idea of a guy faking exorcisms and revealing what he does to a film-maker is ok but this film neither has any dramatic interest or any moral dimension of whether his actions are bad or not. He is portrayed as a good guy and the focus of the film so is as near to a hero as the film has yet he is ripping off and deceiving people who are experiencing severe troubles. This is not questioned by the film or portrayed as wrong. The whole film is just presented without any dramatic focus or interest whatsoever.The acting is not terrible in most cases but that is all I can say in its favour. The film goes nowhere with nothing fun or interesting happening then has an inexplicable, unconvincing and stupid ending. Not a harmful or offensive film but just rubbish.

Filipe Neto In this film, an evangelical pastor performs his last exorcism, after a lifetime of lies in which he made false exorcisms and cures to make money. What Cotton Marcus did not expect is that his last exorcism was, in fact, the only one who would face a real evil that he did not even believe in. From the beginning, the film makes clear that we are seeing a mockumentary, unfinished and with false image editing in the style of "found footage" movies so, when you see the camera shaking this is purposeful. The film also makes great criticisms of evangelical churches, having the courage to say something we all know but rarely can we say out loud: many churches (not just evangelicals) exist only because of the money, transforming themselves into industries of fraud and extortion who treat God as if He were a lawyer or doctor with an office, where He only attends on prepayment. On the other hand, many people with psychological problems or health disorders believe they are possessed or threatened by demons without this really being their problem. Based on these premises, the film shows how a false exorcist deals with a case of true possession, for which he is not minimally prepared because of his lack of faith and opportunism. Although the film is slow at first, this delay is necessary to explain the whole context of what is going to happen next, and for the audience to be stuck with the two central characters. The exorcism was intense and realistic, much closer to a true exorcism than most horror films that approached the subject. The open ending is purposeful, adapting to the film's style and leaving room for the sequel that was made, years later. However, it can leave many people disappointed because it's not very plausible in the way it ends. Patrick Fabian did very well in the role of Pastor Marcus, being perfectly capable of showing his inner conflict, his doubts and his utter unpreparedness to deal with Nell, the possessed young woman, played by Ashley Bell. Young but promising, she was both loving and adorable and perfectly terrifying, when possessed. In short, this is not a perfect movie and is far from having an exceptional quality, but it was a good effort, has merit and courage. It's worth watching.

grantss A film crew are documenting the life of Reverand Cotton Marcus, a preacher in Louisiana whose specialty is exorcisms. One day they accompany him on an exorcism and things don't all go according to plan...So-so movie. Was original and interesting for the first half, then drifted a bit, and then had a tangential and quick ending. The suspense that was built up wonderfully in the first half is all given up in the second half. In short, the pacing was off.Pretty scary though, and thus better than your average supernatural- horror movie. Performances are fairly solid, especially as none of the actors are well-known.

David Arnold In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the evangelical Reverend Cotton Marcus was raised by his father to be a preacher. He agrees to the participation to make a documentary about his life and it's here Cotton tells the story about how he questions his faith after what happened to his wife and also explains that exorcisms are a fraud. Seeing a chance to prove to the documentary team what he means, Cotton reads a letter that has been sent by a farmer from Ivanwood asking him to perform an exorcism on his daughter, Nell. When in Ivanwood, it's here Cotton reveals the different tricks used when performing exorcisms. He performs the "exorcism" on Nell, and everything seems fine at first, but before long Nell shows signs of the same behaviour she had before. Soon, Cotton starts to believe that what Nell is exhibiting may be real after all.The Last Exorcism is another addition to the "mockumentary" and "lost footage found" genres, and while it's not a new genre, it's actually not too bad. The actors do a good job in convincing the audience that they are "ordinary" people as well and it definitely has the documentary feel about it. Ashley Bell does a good job of playing Nell, and what's even more impressive is that all the contortions she does in the movie are real with no additional visual effects.There are a few good jumps and eerie moments in the movie, most of them coming in the last 15-20 minutes, but the freakiest parts of the movie is definitely when Nell shows signs of being possessed. The pace of the movie isn't too bad overall, but it does stop/start a bit too much and the ending isn't really the best as I think it gets a bit ridiculous. If the ending was better, then The Last Exorcism could very well have been a much better movie.Not too bad, but there are definitely much better movies of this genre out there.