The Exorcism

The Exorcism

A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.

  • Released: 2023-02-23
  • Runtime: 95 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Chloe Bailey, Sam Worthington, David Hyde Pierce, Tracey Bonner, Samantha Mathis, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, Josh Warren, Joya Joseph, Hallie Samuels, Scott Rapp, Robert Fortunato, Drew Broderick, Chris TC Edge, Marcenae Lynette, William Hutchings, Jobie James, Zach Padlo
  • Director: Joshua John Miller
 Comments
  • pixrox1 - 3 July 2024
    This film sets out to expose an egregious demon . . .
    . . . named "Moloch," the deity of child sacrifice. Obviously, THE EXORCISM has been released in response to the crimes of the 32 American Red States. Renegade swamp lands such as Ohio are trying to force 10-year-old female sects assault victims to carry traumatic life-threatening pregnancies to full term and then drop out of school to rear their bad seed. Such satanic witchcraft has been mandated by the U. S. High Kangaroo Court, of which a six-member majority kowtow to the sort of medieval nonsense depicted in THE EXORCISM. This film illustrates that six bad apples can turn an entire nation into a mash of rotten fruit.
  • GoneTooFar - 26 June 2024
    You can skip this one.
    I was genuinely hoping some sort of 'The Pope's Exorcist' tie-in at the end as compensation for the time I wasted on this, but I can only dream.

    The entire movie is a giant mess. Unsolved mysteries, forgotten characters and storylines and just dark - in terms of lighting; it was very hard to see some of the actors during some scenes.

    It's neither gripping or scary. This movie is so bad that I can't get myself to even praise Crowe's performance.

    I understand the production had huge hurdles to overcome but that won't even serve as an excuse for this awful film. How this managed to be green lit by so many execs etc and make it to the big screen will remain the real mystery.

    As the title suggest, give this one a miss. You're actually better off not seeing it.
  • stevencayer - 24 June 2024
    great until it wasn't
    Russell Crowe is in his 2nd exorcism movie in the past year, following THE POPE'S EXORCIST. It's simply called THE EXORCISM, which they apparently filmed 5 years ago, but was delayed in releasing it due to Covid. Some fun facts, the director is Joshua John Miller, the son of the guy who was in the original EXORCIST. The movie is semi-meta, about an actor named Anthony Miller (Russell Crowe), who is trying to claw his way back into the limelight after a fight with addiction and childhood trauma. After getting expelled from school, his estranged daughter Lee (Ryan Simpkins) is forced to work as a production assistant on the set. They are filming a remake of the EXORCIST, they couldn't say that, so they call it the GEORGETOWN PROJECT, where the original was filmed. I really enjoyed this concept of playing with the swirl of rumors about the actual horror stories of filming the EXORCIST. When the 2nd half starts though, it's all just thrown out the window. I don't know what happened. It's like they flipped a switch and it suddenly became like all the other horror films we've seen. I wouldn't even call this a horror, more like a meta psychodrama. They really fumbled it near the end. To its credit, the acting is good, especially Ryan. This is actually more her movie than Russell's, who also does a good job. Overall, I enjoyed THE EXORCISM until I didn't. The concept was interesting until it was forgotten. I'll forget about this one in- oh, already did. I have to ask, why was this made? Who the hell wants more exorcism movies? The only exorcism movie I want to see now is CONSTANTINE 2. Give me more Keanu kicking demon ass any day of the week.