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After Eli Roth's Cabin Fever & Hostel enjoyed their UK premieres at past FrightFest events
, it is ironic that The Last Exorcism (which Roth helped produce) ought to be the first film to bring the noughties horror icon to FrightFest in person ironic' because Daniel Stamm's fake documentary, written by merry mockumentary pranksters Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland (Mail Order Spouse), shares not one of the graphic violence or gore that has come to typify the Roth oeuvre. In lieu, it packages a subtle dialectic between faith & skepticism (or at least between outright gullibility & the willing suspension of disbelief) in the wrapping of a demonic chiller.Watch the last exorcism online for free
After years of cheating believers out of their money by staging exorcisms of demons that they has himself long ceased to think actually exist, charismatic preacher Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) invites a small documentary film crew to join him on one of his call-outs & "expose exorcism for the scam it is." Clearly there is something amiss on the Sweetzers' Louisiana farm. Its recently widowed, Christian fundamentalist owner Louis (Louis Herthum) insists that a devil is making his home-schooled 16-year-old daughter Nell (Ashley Bell) mutilate livestock in the night but Cotton, spotting exactly the kind of deluded psychological dysfunction that his performances are designed to treat, begins the girl's holy therapy, all the while showing his crew (& us) the lots of tricks of his trade.
After the exorcism is complete, however, Nell's behaviour becomes more unruly, & as Cotton seeks the underlying cause of all her horrific physical contortions & disturbing utterances, & struggles to protect the troubled girl from her increasingly aggressive brother, it begins to appear that there could be a devil at work after all.
Introducing the European premiere of his film on-stage, Stamm claimed they had always said European audiences would get his film, before pleading: "So get it tonight." This was not mere currying of FrightFesters' favour for there truly is something to get in a film that first goes out of its way to reveal how to fabricate a possession before presenting us with a terrifyingly convincing simulacrum of the actual thing, & then going on to recommend that all of the supporting characters have been involved in a diabolically complicated charade of their own.
Even the film's use of manipulative editing & added score elements which the later Q&A revealed irritated & disconcerted some viewers had a vital part to play in its meaning & interpretation as a polished product than the kind of found footage' seen in The Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield. Here, the medium truly is part of the message.
The Last Exorcism is like The Exorcist (& The Wicker Man) mixed with F for Fake, & it is only after the full-impact shock of the surprise ending has worn off that viewers can pick themselves up & work their way back to all the equivocations that the remainder of the film has so carefully put in place. To say that The Last Exorcism will play as well to the Bible Belt as to hipster infidels is not only to recognise the commercial canniness of the filmmakers, but also to recognise Stamm's (not to mention his fictive filmmaker's) consummate handling of ambiguity.
For the devil remains in the details as to whether this ends up being another film about satanic goings-on, or a work of multi-layered charlatanism designed to give us, in return for our money, exactly the cathartic treatment that they desire.
Watch the last exorcism online for free
Watch the last exorcism online for free
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