Film Review – The Exorcism (2024)

“The Exorcism” has quite a production history, with the project originally filmed in 2019 under the guidance of co-writer/director Joshua John Miller, a former child actor (“Teen Witch,” “River’s Edge,” and “Near Dark”) making his first movie since his helming debut, which was released in 1999. The project hit plenty of roadblocks, including difficulties with the COVID-19 pandemic, and reshoots occurred four years later, hinting at major changes to the material long after its original interpretation. And now “The Exorcism” is in theaters, finally offered to the public, and audiences are treated to a story that definitely doesn’t unfold with confidence. Something happened to the feature over the years, and the final cut reflects such indecision, with Miller and co-writer M.A. Fortin heading in an interesting direction with their screenplay, while the picture itself feels like a crude reworking of a deeper idea, slathered with horror formula to make it palatable to the mass audience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com