An experience that is derivative of far better horror movies, The Pope's Exorcist is an unholy disaster. Our review:
The horror genre has always got an unfairly bad rap. Audiences will make up their mind about a movie just by the poster or title alone. If it’s a straightforward scare fest, it will be deemed “stupid” or “predictable.” If it’s an A24 indie horror, it’ll get slapped with the old faithful descriptors of “weird,” or “not scary enough.” Publications will assign proud horror haters to review the latest entry in the genre, giving the film absolutely no chance of a fair assessment.
Father Gabriele Amorth is, you guessed it, the Pope-appointed exorcist for the Vatican. But he’s not a regular exorcist, he’s a cool exorcist! He rides a Vespa and isn’t afraid to pull up a chair and have a chat with the newest demon-possessed child. The film opens with him doing just that somewhere in Italy in the late 1980s, questioning the demon who claims to be Satan himself.
The Pope’s Exorcist is a film of a bygone era. Religious-themed horrors with no depth or moral messaging played for shock value and “frightening” imagery, the story comes second to whatever is needed for the trailer to dare people to see it. It’s rated R but mostly for a few shots of bare breasts to keep the teenage boys happy. The Pope’s Exorcist sort of tries to reckon with the Catholic Church’s now disgraced reputation but only in a hollow attempt to make itself relevant in 2023.
A film opinion that irks me to no end is “if a horror film isn’t scary then it’s immediately bad.” Just because you didn’t jump or scream in the cinema doesn’t automatically render a horror film unworthy or mean that it “didn’t do its job.” But sometimes when a plot isn’t up to scratch, jump scares and terrifying monsters can still offer a good time. If your only wish is to be scared, then The Pope’s Exorcist still isn’t the film for you.
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