The Exorcist 2023: the return of Pazuzu
After the reboot trilogyHalloweenAmerican director David Gordon Green collaborates once again with Blumhouse Productions to reboot another cult horror film: The exorcist.
As for the first part of Halloween released in 2018, The devotion of the exorcist is intended to be the direct sequel to the original film released in 1974. Set in the present day, the film centers on Victor Fielding, a father who raised his daughter Angela alone after his wife died in an earthquake. And fate hasn’t finished testing him.
One day, Angela and her friend Katherine mysteriously disappear in the woods. Three days later they reappear, with no memory of what happened. Following this event, a series of terrifying incidents begins to unfoldplunging Victor into a waking nightmare.
Faced with this elusive threat, he turns to Chris MacNeil, played again by Ellen Burstyn. Chris, after experiencing the horror of his daughter Regan’s possession by the Pazuzu entity, is perhaps the only one who can help Victor understand and fight this evil that threatens his family.
While the horror film is expected in French theaters on October 22nd, the first news arrives from the United States, and unfortunately it is scary.
The first opinions have arrived, it hurts
The devotion of the exorcist will be released this Friday, October 6 in the United States. For our American colleagues, the embargo on reviews is therefore lifted. And if the first images of the film were quite attractive, we remain indifferent to the criticism coming from across the Atlantic.
On site Rotten tomatoesthere are currently 56 reviews from different media and only 16 exceed the average. Which (unfortunately) portends a bad return for this cult horror saga. We can read like this:
Patience and sensitivity have now been sacrificed to the cannibalism of recycled ideas
The film still exudes a sulfuric smell that evokes the absence of the soul
Green’s strategy seems simple: double everything. He doubles the possessions, doubles the visual effects, doubles the stakes. But more doesn’t always mean better, especially when following a film lauded for its pure horror and simplicity.
For a film whose marketing campaign is based on its seemingly shocking and extreme nature, the kind of lukewarm film presented in “The Exorcist Devotion” is an insult to its creator and ultimately highlights how irrelevant it is.
After a promising start, the sixth film in a series that should have ended proudly 50 years ago becomes downright infuriating
A film that proposed itself as an intelligent and respectful homage to The Exorcist sinks into the depths of a pale, cheap imitation, worthy of live streaming.
Boring
Source: Cine Serie
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