EXORCIST: THE FALLEN ** U.S.A. 2014 Dir: Garrett Benach 81 mins Taking more then half of what William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin brought to the genre with THE EXORCIST, this film sees nothing new brought to the table. The basic plot for the film sees Victoria play with a…
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BEYOND THE DOOR *** Italy 1974 Dir: Ovidio Assonitis. 109 mins One of the fastest movies out of the gate to capitalise on the worldwide phenomenon of THE EXORCIST (while still nodding overtly to that film’s own precursor, ROSEMARY’S BABY), this divertingly odd Italian rip-off has a marvellously droll opening…
THE VATICAN TAPES *** USA 2015 Dir: Mark Neveldine. 87 mins Comely twentysomething Catholic Olivia Taylor Dudley starts hearing voices, experiencing physical changes and shiftily lurking in maternity wards. By the point at which she is influencing strangers to gouge out their own eyes with broken lightbulbs, terrified Dad Dougray…
ANOTHER (a.k.a. MARK OF THE WITCH) *** USA 2014 Dir: Jason Bognacki. 80 mins Writer-director Jason Bognacki’s account of a young woman’s coming of age, as she discovers a close association with the Devil, is a strikingly designed, often very well shot and edited feature length homage to occult American…