One of my all time favorites.

Awesome Movie

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This film is a total waste of time. The premise is there is a preacher who is charging people to do exorcisms which he fakes, convincing himself he is doing them a favour (as well as taking their money!) by letting them feel he has got rid of their demons. He allows two people to film him in his last exorcism which ends up going wrong. Well there is zero film-making skill on show, zero of interest happens and the ending is a joke.The film is shot in a supposed documentary style but nobody in 2010 would have such poor quality filming even on an old camcorder or their mobile phone let alone an actual supposed documentary film-maker. It is grainy, grey, blurry and has zero visual quality. It looks like it cost nothing at all to make.The story is extremely boring. Nothing happens basically. It is not an intelligent, thought provoking drama and it is not a fun horror film. There are no exciting moments, no fun horror scenes, no tension, no good dialogue. It just ambles along like an extremely dull late night cable TV documentary. The idea of a guy faking exorcisms and revealing what he does to a film-maker is ok but this film neither has any dramatic interest or any moral dimension of whether his actions are bad or not. He is portrayed as a good guy and the focus of the film so is as near to a hero as the film has yet he is ripping off and deceiving people who are experiencing severe troubles. This is not questioned by the film or portrayed as wrong. The whole film is just presented without any dramatic focus or interest whatsoever.The acting is not terrible in most cases but that is all I can say in its favour. The film goes nowhere with nothing fun or interesting happening then has an inexplicable, unconvincing and stupid ending. Not a harmful or offensive film but just rubbish.

This film started off great but the ending was very disappointing. But overall an above Average horror film.

Wow, lots of negative reviews, but as critical as I can be, I really found this film kind of compelling and scary. Crazy, weird scary....information and details that you don't expect. I didn't really think the acting would be all that good at first...but it's all pretty masterful by most of the cast ...the ending is pretty realistic as well in a brutally scary way. I can become persuaded by negative reviews but I couldn't sleep and had to finish watching this on Epix. Overall, I'd say it's worth watching! The physical acting (as demonic) is pretty compelling too. Now I need go to sleep with the TV on. I guess the nay sayers really wanted more 'blood, guts, screams" but this production didn't need it. The ending was a little predictable tbh.

I had such high hopes for this movie...and no...I wasn't expecting horror; at all.What I was expecting, was something grand...and what I got was disdainfully disappointing.The movie started out, bland, but good and I was thinking, okay...this charlatan is going to pull one too many frauds and get what's coming to him. He'll get a real possessed person, the demons will give him more than he bargained for, and I'll laugh, hysterically, because TV evangelists and fake preachers just out for money (which is far too many) are depraved.What I got was a fairly decent movie, with a ridiculous ending.I went from being hopeful at some scum getting his butt supernaturally kicked...to a bunch of people, lead by some old coot, playing dress up.Robes? Really? If I came upon a scene like that, first thing I'd do is make sure it's not Halloween, second, make sure it's not a movie set and...finally...if both of those scenarios weren't the case, I'd laugh... hysterically.Robes and all that junk are nothing but pomp and show, and no one serious, is going to play dress up dressed like Merlin and his magical court. Waste...waste...waste...