Jesus himself be an exorcist, says the charismatic preacher Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), the film crew that has set out to portray a modern exorcisms. But Marcus, a former evangelical priest jealous and still practicing exorcist believes long gone to the devil. Exorcisms he looks rather as a community service, the last possible resort, when no longer help medicine and psychiatry. Besides, they are a good source of income for the preacher. And so are his exorcisms are all charlatans, are used in the well-placed wires, sound effects and theatrical gestures are used. Most of the ranges, or the "possessed" to bring to heel, as a kind of spiritual placebo. But the priest will go out of business. A failed exorcism on a boy with autism made him permanently from the faith placed in his actions. Only one last exorcism he still wants to perform, the documentary team's sake, discover, using all his tricks. That it will have this last exorcism in itself, no one doubts that has seen more than a horror film.
So take Marcus and the film crew to Louisiana, Mississippi, deep in the south, to where the people something different beat, speak in singsong vernuscheltem before Katrina and the poverty is high and the belief was still stronger. A white farmer (Louis Herthum) has asked for help, his most docile teenage daughter (Ashley Bell) butchered his cattle in his sleep and gets her crucifix rash. Such a thing must indeed go down with the devil. The path to the remote farm - and isolated farms are in this type movie again - is paved with evil omen: almost weathered effect the landscape that passes by the car windows, people who ask visitors for directions, at best, strangely, a red-haired teenager throws like rotten fruit from the rear window, the sound effect is thanks to the first shock of the film. On the farm, the team is soon confronted with a situation of which remains unclear until recently whether it is the result of religious mania, or domestic violence very real work of the devil (or even a bit of everything).
to the bitter end all consistently shown by the cameras of the film crew - blurred, with interruptions and jumps, irritating pans, in short, anything that suggests immediacy. If, within the Action shots are interrupted stays in the cinema the screen black and the plot is an ellipse again later. Those who have cut the material apart and will be responsible for the great sound is still unanswered. It might be "The Last Exorcism" ("The Last exorcism") described as a "mockumentary" or Fakedoku of "found footage".
This is of course a far from new idea. At the latest after "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) played through clever viral marketing outrageous amount of money in the coffers of the small Artisan Studios had, it was clear that the mixture blurred-blurred images from camera, digital drop-outs and all sorts of esoteric and mystical mumbo-jumbo would not be the last of its kind. Besides the inevitable sequel "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" (2000) followed, more or less clearly by the requirement-oriented, the English contribution "[REC]" (2007), from the USA "Paranormal Activity" (2007) and "Cloverfield" (2008), as the sequels "[REC] 2" (2009) and - completed but not yet started - Paranormal Activity 2 "(2010). Even solid genre product as Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead" remake (2004), Neil Marshall original "The Decent" (2005) and George A. Romero 's Diary of the Dead "(2007) did not come from without sequences in which the protagonists do not at least occasionally filmed the events themselves and, consequently, we then usually greenish Gekrissel was sold as realism. In retrospect, it was really only in the Neill Blomkamp spectacular start of his anti-racist satire "District 9" (2009), the idea of fake documentation again to gain new stimulus. offers
Beyond the pseudo-realistic multi-value, the subjective, perceived by the protagonists themselves out camera in the promise of a new immediacy. The mockumentary, So the documentary is entirely false, at least potentially subversive endpoint of this trend. That many of these films deal but with superstition, ghosts and Satanism, in short, with all that thrilled paranoid and esoteric as no surprise. The paranoid idea that nothing is what it seems, lives by the most counterfeited or fuzzy "evidence" of alleged supernatural activity - be it the devil grimace that in photographs of smoke over the Twin Towers on 11 September is to see the snapshots of the dead Michael Jackson, who walks in his Neverland mansion or the overexposed images of ghosts. The amount of imagination weak spirit needed "evidence" like a talisman, no matter how obviously wrong they are. What was the photography for the spiritualism of the turn of the century met today for the movie dealt with the occult, the digital camera - as an immediate signifier of realism and authenticity.
Why you should watch another movie that uses this stylistic device, and moreover seems to William Friedkin's over-reactionary horror film "The Exorcist" (1973) is inspired? Simply because "The Last Exorcism" is a surprisingly effective, with plenty of black humor PROVIDED small genre hybrid, the more the traditions of sleazig-trashy 70's cinema than on connecting too pretentious cinema conversion à la Friedkin. In his conclusion Daniel remembers this master film of Ti West's excellent retro-horror "The House of the Devil" (2009). And unlike his colleagues who emigrated to Hollywood also Marcus Nispel and Christian Alvart manages the Hamburg-born master, despite - not because of - generating the false documentary gesture something of a higher credibility. This is mainly due to the excellent actors, the authentic Southern setting and the fact that the film is very clever in the first act innerdiegetisch his own "fake" character addressed if the alleged Exorcist outs himself with disarming openness as a gifted charlatan. Even the small budget - "The Last Exorcism" has cost just 1.8 million, but in the U.S. alone already recorded more than 40 million - contributed to a dramatic limitation on down to the essentials of what the film is quite good.
So if after the rather tepid horror summer and before the start of Alexandre Aja's grotesquely great 3D battle record "Piranha 3D" desire for a successful genre piece has, should Daniel strain veritable terror film a chance. Ideally, however, in the original English version. The trailer can eingedeutschte suspect in relation to the synchronization unfortunately worst. And, as already explained the wrong exorcist the film crew in "The Last Exorcism: The sound is extremely important for the success of a good show.
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