Right off the bat The Last Exorcism is a stupid title.
Even before this hit the theatres another one was being planned for a very simple reason. The Blair "Cha-ching" Witch Project.
After that huge moneymaker, producers realized that if you pretend to shoot with a hand held camera and run around a lot it will cost you nothing and people will pay to see it.
Sure enough once that secret was out it was just a matter of time before people began to use that technique in other stories.
Here we have Blair Witch Exorcist and it's pretty much exactly what you expect. Except maybe for the ending but I won't get into that right now.
I will get into the nice thing about this film, which are relatively unknown actors doing a pretty good job with the material they're given. It is a nice change of pace to see faces without baggage.
The film stars Patrick Fabian as a childhood preacher pretty much raised to get people to yell "Hallelujah Amen!" But he is also a showman, and eventually he gets the feeling that maybe this God thing is just a big sham.
So he does what any of us would do he hires a film crew to follow him as he performs his last fake exorcist to show the world what a bunch of bally-hoo this all is.
And wouldn't you know it, he chooses the 16-year-old girl at the end of a dirt road in Louisiana.
You know trouble is afoot when we find out her brother's name is Caleb.
In horror movies that name is nothing but trouble (scary thing is that's the actor's name as well).
From here on in it's a lot of running and livestock killing in a backwoods world that doesn't really make any sense.
Like all bad horrors, the people who die really deserve it because they do stupid things. In the end it's hard not to want them dead because they're stupid - or is it the writers who are stupid?
Too bad at the end they couldn't have shown the writers being killed - that would have at least been entertaining and made a bit of sense.
