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The Last Exorcism (2010)
Pretty decent movie
I had little hopes of this turning out to be a good movie, but I was actually pleased with what I saw.
This movie is about a demonic possession in a teenager girl and the botched exorcisms performed by a famous preacher. Although the plot is somewhat overused, this one shows it by the perspective of a FAITHLESS (mark this word) preacher, who has a vast religious background, but lost his faith after some events and states it clearly that he doubts his beliefs and even the existence of God and demons. He keeps his preaching, but works more like a "church artist" rather than a true spiritual leader. He is then called by a possessed teenage girl's father to perform an exorcism on her, and accepts the challenge. He takes a documentary crew with him to prove exorcisms weren't real.
The paranormal events happened in a rural property where that man, Mr. Sweetzer, lives with his delinquent son and his daughter, both teenagers. He truly believes his daughter is possessed and calls the famous preacher to help saving her. Unfortunately, it all goes wrong for him.
What I liked the most in this movie is the whole thing about the preacher's lack of faith, for he could have succeeded on his job or at least saved himself and his crew if he at least had some spiritual power/knowledge about what he was really facing. He saw the possession with his own eyes, but kept denying it because his rational, but ignorant mind wasn't being able to understand it. He even had the chance to truly exorcise the demon, but the lack of faith on his speech was so evident that it was barely amused. Other subtle and funny thing is that he told Mr. Sweetzer to not believe in the devil's lies, but he believed in all of them himself!
I don't believe this movie is anti-Christian, but rather delivers a good message about true faith, so rare in these days.
The acting on this movie is good, for the preacher is a very good actor, the character development is good too and so is the plot and the message about faith. I gave it a 7/10.
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
Troll movie
Well, I'm not a filmmaker but I'm pretty sure this has got to be technically one of the worst movies ever made.
Although I think the 1st one is actually a pretty decent movie with a good mystery plot and a good opinion on a faithless preacher, this sequel seems more like a troll movie they released just to laugh at how many people would actually pay to watch this lazy piece of work.
It is like they only had a loose idea on the plot and just decided to fill in some random scenes until they achieved 90min of footage. There are many scenes which just doesn't make any sense followed one by another, and when you see a horror movie trying to scare you with a barking dog in a daylight street scene, you know you've reached a new low standard.
Its pretty sad to see movies this bad being released. This seriously shouldn't even be considered "professional work". Don't waste time with this movie.
Hard Candy (2005)
The worst ****ing movie ever
This is easily the worst movie I've ever seen. Its OK to make a movie against pedophilia, but this movie is unbelievable and really stupid. It's meant to be serious, but I think Lord of the Rings is more believable than this.
I will give an example of how "Tom and Jerry"-like this movie is: Whats the chance of a skinny 14 years old girl, with no more than 80lbs of weight, be able to body-knock a 32 years old guy, who is 1,85m tall, into a bath? There isn't any chance at ALL, anyone who has a little bit of a clue knows that what would happen is that the little girl would injury her own arms by trying to do that. A taser wouldn't help her in that task either since i don't believe tasers can throw people around.
Anyway, i believe this was the first time i got angry by watching a movie and felt like buying a DVD just so I could DESTROY it with a sledge hammer and then BURN it to ashes.
There is simply nothing positive to say about this movie. They should give free therapy to whoever thought of writing such useless, insane and laughable story.