by Andrew Osborne & Scott Von Doviak
ANDREW: At first, I thought Hollywood was just flat-out lying to me with this title. Americans clearly love the devil and his minions (or scary movies about them, at least), and so I was extremely skeptical that director Daniel Stamm‘s quasi-mockumentary would truly be the last time we’d see a poor demon-afflicted girl twisting her neck around, scampering across the ceiling, and growling menacing pronouncements in her best glottal chest voice. But then I saw the trailer and realized the title actually refers to the final exorcism performed by the nicely B-movie-monikered Reverend Cotton Marcus, down in Scary Redneck, Louisiana (apparently a few towns over from Bon Temps, where demonic behavior is more common than meth labs). Given Eli “Hostel” Roth‘s name in the credits as a producer, the lack of recognizable faces in the cast (usually a good sign in horror films), and the fact that one of the screenwriters claims to be named “Huck Botko,” does this seem worth seeing in theaters before its swift journey to the DVD bargain bin?
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