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The Last Exorcism - A Repossession You'll Actually Enjoy

Another horror movie about an exorcist? Hasn't the perfect film on that subject already been made, horribly sequelized and doubly prequelized? There’s even an action figure now. While you’re at it Eli Roth, maybe you’d also like to produce a new flick about a wealthy citizen named Kane?

That, at least, is what we all likely thought upon seeing posters for The Last Exorcism, as half-banished memories of The Exorcism of Emily Rose danced in our heads. (To paraphrase The Bard: a Rose by any other name would still totally suck.) Only it turns out that this movie is actually good. It won’t replace green-pukin’ Regan in your black hearts and minds, but it turns out there is room for more than one story on the subject.

Unlike others in its genre, there’s a sense of humor to The Last Exorcism. The first act comes off much lighter than you might expect. Veronica Mars’ Patrick Fabian plays Cotton Marcus, an evangelist beginning to recognize the phoniness of his own ways. He plans to document the fraudulent nature of the final exorcism he’ll perform...but, yeah, when, in any movie ever, has that "one last job" gone according to plan? In the found-footage style of Cloverfield and Blair Witch, we go from humor to horror as preacher becomes prey. Our only gripe? We have no faith in that “Last” in the title. Without spoiling anything, plenty of room is left for a sequel.

The Last Exorcism opens today. Don't forget your pea soup.

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