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One of the best films i have seen

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers is not quite as terrible as the rating and some of the reviews suggest, but it is disheartening when a movie gets off to a good start but from beyond that point is lacking in a lot of areas. There are things that were halfway-decent, good even. The best thing about Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers is the opening, which is quite intense and fun to watch, a promising start indeed. The priest-on-priest murder scene has also been mentioned elsewhere as another good scene, that was shocking and fairly well done too. A couple of performances shone through(from personal opinion the acting was more uneven rather than good or bad), Griff Furst is touching, his character Clark like the others is clichéd but also one of the more likable ones, and while he does overact at times Thomas Downey is the very meaning of bad-ass. The ladies are sensual to look at, the old-school make-up looked very effective and the special effects are okay, a little better than expected(hardly award-worthy though). Unfortunately David Schick is over-the-top and annoying and Erica Roby's, though not without her good moments, inexperience does show. After such a promising beginning, the last two thirds of the movie don't match at all, the middle was rather tedious and with very little tension, too much padding was a major problem in this regard, and the ending/final half-hour is bloated and all-over-the-place(very kitchen-sink quality). Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers we know from the get go is low-budget, but the production values are really slipshod, often too blurry, darkly-lit and claustrophobic-looking and to say the editing is terrible is an understatement, choppy and we can even see irrelevant objects either in corners or full-view. The dialogue is stilted and contains a lot of misplaced humour- intentional and unintentional-, this couldn't be more true in the more serious-toned scenes(including the exorcism) where there is a one-liner that single-handedly hurts the scene. The story is too padded, devoid and atmosphere and sometimes felt like a string of derivative and inferior rip-offs that are as misplaced as some of the humour. The direction isn't amateurish as such but there definitely could have been more flow and balance between tension and comedy because it all felt disjointed, while we never get to connect with the characters either, Clark is the most likable and we don't learn much about him either apart from what role he's serving in the story and in relation to the title character. All in all, started off good but the rest was a sprinkle of decent and a lot of mediocre and bad. 4/10 Bethany Cox

This title doesn't bother to come up with its own ideas, it just steals them all from one of the best horror movies of all time and adds a bit more sex. Most movies take ideas from other films, but not 3/4 of a superior film to which they will be compared unfavourably.Acting and special effects are as to be expected of a low budget production, but while those can be forgiven, the lack of any originality can't. I'm sorry there was one original idea but it was so laughable it barely counts. A blind exorcist in sunglasses that make him look more like a biker than a priest. "Yeah I'm a bad ass priest, not like those other little pussy priests who couldn't drive a demon out of a wet paper bag."

For a low budget horror, this movie rocks... up until the last half hour which comprises itself of the exorcism chapter of the film, which everything is in essence, building up to. We know it's coming, we expect it to blow your socks off, but it just doesn't.You've got all the staple food of a spine chilling low budget horror.Simple effects used correctly really make your budget work for you. Dario Argento would be proud. The growl when Gail turns her head is a sweet sound byte, I think I'll use that for my "You've Got Mail" wav for GMail.When Gail looks in the mirror, walks away and her reflection stays there smiling at her I thought, hell yeah that's a cool gimmick.Gratuitous nudity is something directors are so afraid of these days, but with a straight to video release one doesn't have to worry so much about ratings, and like the MC from Cabaret would exclaim, these girls are hot, hot, hot! But, that's not enough to make a film other than a porn so we have to put that aside, and get scrutinizing, it has to be done, or as a movie reviewer I simply am not doing a very good job.I'm fairly certain there is no such ritual as the Rite of Abraham in this capacity as the Rite of Abraham actually refers to the act of circumcision. (SEPHER YEZIRAH Chaper 1:2) The place this movie fails in my opinion is two-fold.The blind priest doesn't look the part. He lacked the depth demanded by the part. He looks too young, and the intensity is simply not there. Also the demon is in a word; unimpressive.I cringed when they blatantly ripped off The Exorcist and Stigmata and actually laughed during the exorcism. The finale which consisted of the exorcism, or last half hour were just terrible.It's like the movie was hopeful for the first half but culminated in a complete meltdown at the end.Really it started out as a decent 6, but melted down into a 2... 3 since I'm feeling generous.

We rented this movie because we were looking for something scary to watch, I had seen The Exorcist before so this movie looked like it would work. It was just as creepy as The Exorcist if not more! Some of the scenes in this movie are so shocking, its perfect if you are looking for a movie to watch in the dark and want to get scared! The screams that come out of the people in the movie are bloodcurdling, especially the older sister when she sees what is happening to her younger sister as the possession takes hold of her... it gives you chills!The make-up was really well done, we sat there and saw blood spurting from people and eyes getting gouged out, but it looks realistic enough to where you don't sit there and think about it being fake -- all you think about is how gross and scary it all is...Definitely a movie to rent if you want to get creeped out!