The Last Exorcism - Not bad (for what it is)

Okay, as any horror fan knows, ‘found footage’ films are ‘in’ right about now. It seems anyone can run round shaking a camera for ninety minutes and call the result a ‘found footage’ horror film. The Last Exorcism is one of these ‘found footage’ films. This time a camera crew follows an exorcist on a job and… well, if you’ve ever seen (a) a found footage film or (b) and exorcism film, then you’ll know what to expect.

And you get just that. Some might say that that’s a bad thing as everything is pretty predictable (and they’re probably be right – there’s nothing really that new here to see). However, it’s not as terrible as most found footage films. The characters are believable and they don’t make a hundred and one stupid decisions (maybe one or two, here and there, but that’s still less than your average star of a horror movie), so the acting remains good and the camera not too wobbly.

Of course the story descends into what you’d probably expect as the team get more than they bargain for.

I won’t say that anything here is a classic, so it’s really down to whether you can be bothered sitting through – yet another – found footage film, combined with yet one more exorcism film. If you decide to give it a go, be gentle – like I say… it’s no masterpiece, but watchable enough.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that