Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT There has been some confusion surrounding The Exorcism, the new supernatural horror film starring Russell Crowe. I’ll start by saying the film isn’t a sequel to The Pope’s Exorcist, nor is it directly connected to The Exorcist, though The Exorcism director Joshua John Miller’s father, Jason Miller, starred in the allegedly cursed 1973 horror movie.
These elements are the most compelling of the film. As we’re asked to empathize with a man who feels the utmost remorse for the harm he caused, Crowe delivers a performance that keeps The Exorcism engaging, even when its premise starts to run out of steam, and a very gimmicky finale nearly throws all the character work out the window. Crowe is the only one in the whole film, besides an antagonistic Goldberg, to make me feel anything or care about what’s happening.
Under the surface of the supernatural lies something truly sinister, and it’s very human. While other horror films have been able to marry trauma and human evil together with the supernatural, The Exorcism struggles to do that properly. When I realized the film was no longer going to explore Tony’s past and the work he’s doing to combat it, I was disappointed. Choosing to go the route of a typical horror exorcism felt absurd in a film that had a lot going for it in the first half.
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