{"id":1217,"date":"2014-06-22T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2015-09-26T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:13:57","slug":"do-not-publish-foundfootageflicks-com-for-joe-cauwell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"The Last Exorcism (2010) – Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Last Exorcism”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Previously available at Found Footage Flicks<\/a>, which was discontinued as of 09\/01\/2014.<\/p>\n

Cotton Marcus, a man who became a Preacher as a child, has suffered a crisis of faith and become discouraged.\u00a0 After years of preaching with his father and performing exorcisms for the church, Cotton’s personal doubts, combined with recent news of children dying while allegedly being exorcised, have convinced him to expose them for the frauds his experience has shown them to be.\u00a0 He, with a documentary film crew, travel to the Switzer farm in Ivanwood, LA to perform an exorcism hoping to help a troubled family and show the tricks of the trade.\u00a0 While there, Cotton and the film crew discover there is far more serious problems happening with this dysfunctional family.<\/p>\n

This is a genuinely creepy found footage film.\u00a0 Ashley Bell, as the arguably possessed Nell Switzer, gave a chilling performance with a convincing combination of innocence and malice.\u00a0 She did all the bends and contortions herself without special effects.\u00a0 Patrick Fabian, as the faith-challenged Cotton Marcus, offers the audience a\u00a0 believable wishy-washy, hypocritical, in-over-his-head, but honestly concerned character.\u00a0 Cotton is well explored in the story, given a multifaceted background and evolves.\u00a0 Nell and her Fundamentalist family’s background is touched and speculated on, but it’s the mystery of what’s happening in the “now” which is slowly revealed, tries to engage the audience and succeeds to a point.\u00a0 The rest of the cast seemed like props rather than complete characters, just there to point out what the audience was already thinking or suggest misleading plot twists, without adding any real substance.<\/p>\n

On that note, the dialogue isn’t particularly bad.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a great bit right at the beginning where Cotton says “I bet I can preach a sermon about…”\u00a0 which I thought was excellent execution of\u00a0 dialogue that worked.\u00a0 It successfully conveyed the contempt the character has for not only his “calling” but the people who believe in him.<\/p>\n

The story is slow to start, mostly focusing on developing empathy for Cotton and the documentary crew, very much an expose of exorcism fraud.\u00a0 I did feel that though the film seems to drag\u00a0 through the first half, suspense builds almost without the audience noticing.\u00a0 Perhaps too subtly, but still there.\u00a0\u00a0 When the movie finally picks up the filmmakers overuse of jump scares too quickly burns off the suspense they had taken so much time and effort to build.<\/p>\n

Although I did enjoy this movie, felt it was chilling, and was pleasantly surprised with the twist at the end (which left questions unanswered, indeed created more, but I didn’t find that too detracting ), I didn’t connect with most of the characters. I gave this 3 mixed drinks, overall it managed to evoke chills and thrills, however cheap.
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