I thought I'd watch a good horror flick on a foggy evening at home. Well, I watched about 1/4 of this film, and gave up to watch re-runs. I hardly ever do this usually watching anything through to the end. I then watched the rest the next day, just to see if I missed something - Nope! Was this a high school project? Did anyone in the production ever go to film school? The story starts out sort of interesting with a girl cutting herself in a sort of flashback. Then family scenes with teenage angst and a sort of goth teen angle. So I thought maybe this would explore psychological problems of modern teens and frame it as demonic possession. Well, it does, sort of... It just skims the surface, and then the plot becomes ridiculous. The demon-possessed girl goes around recking havoc on everyone, yet is just allowed to go about her daily routine! It's nearly laughable, but not quite. Then lets talk about the characters... I wanted all of them to be killed, just to shut them up. They seem to act randomly - without really following any track. And lastly, the shaky camera of Cinéma vérité - come now! This should only be used for certain reasons. I assume the film maker wanted this to make us feel closer to the story, but it's actually distractive and alienating. If this camera work is supposed to represent the view of a character in the story - who could this be? I am not a fan of this type of camera work in nearly any film - but here it's really misused. It's not at all documentarial, nor are we following a missing third person - so it just makes me sea sick! There is a line near the end of the film - sorry I don't want to re-watch to find it!, but it's something like "Someone has to stop this" and I thought this should be the tagline!
Review of Exorcismus
