It’s a profoundly foolish script filmed with a shaky cam, a movie that goes to great pains to explain how many cameras there are and where they’re placed in a room, only to drop that conceit and show us unexplained subjective shots.īut having one exorcist be a priest and a doctor, able to bring vital signs monitors into the basement, bedroom or wherever the exorcism is to take place, adds an ER’s urgency to this - sort of an “I need 400 cc’s of Holy water, STAT!” effect. Honestly, Father Ben, do you think Satan is listening when you shout “I want you to leave the girl out of this?” And then they show her the real deal, bringing a couple of lay people into deathly dangerous situations. The priests lay out the four giveaways that you’re dealing with a demonic possession and not just run-of-the-mill mental illness, signs that include “aversion to holy objects” (Bibles, crucifixes, holy water), preternatural movement and strength. She likes the healthy skepticism there, but she takes up with a couple of young true believer priests (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) who promptly invite her and Michael along on a couple of house calls. Isabella takes in a lecture at The Vatican School for Exorcism, which is like Hogwarts without the cool scarves. And Mom, switching accents, rolling her eyes, showing off her collection of cross-cuts on her arms and lips, rattles Isabella (not that Andrade lets us see this). She visits Mom (Suzan Crowley, very creepy) – alone, in her hospital room. “Is it in my genes? Am I going to flip out some day?” Somehow, she was transferred to a hospital for the criminally insane in Rome, where Isabella drags filmmaker Michael (Ionut Grama) and his many video cameras to make a movie that provides Isabella with answers. The un-emotive Andrade plays a young woman whose mother killed three members of the Catholic clergy 20 years before in an American exorcism. And since “The Rite” cashed in last January, why not roll out a “Blair Witch”y hand-held “We’re making a documentary about my ‘possessed’ mother” film? If it’s January, it must be low-grade horror season. I guess she’s grown up with exorcism movies, so nothing’s going to shock her. She sees blood and hears all manner of blood-curdling cursing in languages familiar and foreign.Īnd playing her in “The Devil Inside,” actress Fernanda Andrade - who is easy on the eyes - barely bats an eye. The things young Isabella Rossi sees on her fateful trip to Rome! She sees bodies contort into pretzels and climb walls and fling themselves across rooms, breaking restraints as they do.
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