I'm Worried About Mike Flanagan's Exorcist Movie (Despite His Horror Successes)

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While Mike Flanagan’s addition to The Exorcist franchise sounds exciting, I don’t think any movie could realistically live up to the original movie’s impact, so his remake has me a bit worried. Director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot was a critical and commercial success, spawning a new trilogy that continued with 2021's Halloween Kills and 2022’s Halloween Ends.

No Exorcist Sequel Has Matched The Original Movie's Sheer Shock Value The Cultural Impact Of The Exorcist Is Tough To Overstate Close Put simply, you really couldn’t make The Exorcist today. Making An Exorcist Movie That Matches The Original May Be Too Much, Even For Flanagan Few Movies Have Come Close To Matching The Exorcist’s Impact Close A major issue cited in most of The Exorcist: Believer’s bad reviews was that the sequel didn’t match the original movie’s scare factor, but this is an inherently unrealistic expectation.

That said, I’m still looking forward to what Flanagan does with the franchise. After all, while 2021’s Midnight Mass was a Stephen King love letter, it was also a chance for Flanagan to prove that his fascination with faith makes him a perfect fit for The Exorcist series. As someone also raised Catholic, I’m certain that Flanagan can capture the dark side of the religion’s beliefs like The Exorcist’s original author William Peter Blatty did throughout his oeuvre.

Replicating the impact of the original Exorcist would be an almost impossible task in 2024, so there is an argument to be made that Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie should offer viewers a fresh view of the franchise. One of the biggest failures of The Exorcist: Believer was its lack of imagination. Gordon Green repeated the approach he brought to 2018’s Halloween with the reboot, bringing back a few legacy characters but mostly following the original movie’s plot beats with a few minor changes.

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