Film review. The Last Exorcism is a truly alarming film, but doesnt leave you with a pit in your stomach, rather a smile on your face. Its scary, funny and entertaining and an excellent way to close out the summer.

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The last exorcism!!!

Disproving exorcisms creaks into legitimate possession….  

“If you believe in God, then you believe in the devil”

When you go to see a movie about an exorcism, you know what to expect; a seemingly typical yet weird subject, chanting and body contorting. The Last Exorcism really is just more of the same, but puts those elements to use in a rather unique way making them far more disturbing than one would expect without even being graphic. The Last Exorcism is a truly alarming film, but doesn’t leave you with a pit in your stomach, rather a smile on your face. It’s scary, funny and entertaining and an excellent way to close out the summer.

Genre

The genre displayed is a horror as elements of supernatural, darkness and secrets are added. Horror films are disturbing movies that strive to stimulate the emotions of fear, disgust and shock from their viewers. The last exorcism achieved by the characters like t5he demons and devils. They repeatedly featured scenes that startle the viewer through the means of horrid and the supernatural. The last exorcism achieved this by creating a tensed atmosphere by events like lighting in an empty room, footsteps and candles extinguishing. Horrors also often overlap with the thriller genre. Plots written within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force and commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world like the horror movie The last exorcism.  

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Plot

The film begins and we quickly meet our main character – a somewhat scummy priest who is out to disprove exorcisms after he reads that a failed exorcism led to a young child’s death. The priest, who used to perform fake exorcisms, replies to letter begging for help and takes a camera crew with to document every second. What shadows are some exceedingly strange events which lead everyone around the priest to believe that this might be a legitimate possession. As each night passes, the bangs get louder; the footsteps get closer and reveal a terrible secret...

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