“A lot of weird things happened when they were filmed The prophecy and The Exorcist“, they say at some point in this horror movie with Russell CroweAnd the phrase is not only related to the plot of the film (the title says it all), but the director, Joshua John Miller, is the son of Jason Miller, who was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for playing Father Karras in the 1973 blockbuster, directed by William Friedkin.
So Exorcism It is a way of exorcising, for its director, many of the experiences that his father Miller had, calling the protagonist by his own surname.
The common points, from the script, are several, and the most observant viewer will be able to notice them easily.
Russell Crowe plays an actor, just as Ellen Burstyn, who played little Regan’s mother, was also a performer. And if Father Karras was tormented by the death of his mother, for which he felt guilty, Anthony Miller, without spoiling, experiences something similar.
Russell Crowe plays an actor with inner demons, who films a horror movie. Imagem Films Photos
To Miller, an actor overwhelmed by internal and external demons, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, who has seen his promising career collapse. He is offered to take the role vacated by another actor. No, it’s not that he left the project due to disagreements with the script, but that he died on the very set of a horror film…
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Little by little, Miller’s behavior, once on the film set, begins to alter, leading his daughter (Ryan Simpkins), a queer teenager from whom he had been estranged, to wonder if her father He has returned to some of the addictions he once had.
His daughter (Ryan Simpkins) doubts whether her father did not relapse into alcohol and drugs. Or is there something supernatural?
Will you be taking the medications prescribed for you?
Russell Crowe and a diabolical presence
Or is there a supernatural presence stalking him? Anthony Miller is something of a cannon fodder, a sad, wounded man, for whom assuming the role of a Catholic priest is heartbreaking for him. As a child, he was a victim of sexual violence as an altar boy. And the new movie’s director (Adam Goldberg) doesn’t hesitate to fuel Anthony’s substance abuse, his guilt over a death, and his childhood grief. What he wants is for Miller’s interpretation to be “realistic.”
Crowe returns to a horror film, after the surprise success that resulted The Pope’s Exorcist last year (of which there will be a sequel), and which was the first in the genre for the Gladiator actor. And the truth is that he is very good in the role. David Hyde PierceFrasier) is the imperturbable father Conor and even Sam Worthington parades, who joins all kinds of projects when he is not filming one of the Avatar by James Cameron.
Sam Worthington, the star of “Avatar,” also stars in the film.
In back of Exorcism are one of the producers of the latest Halloweenwhich certainly does not guarantee anything, and one of the creators of screamKevin Williamson, who will now direct Scream 7. And be careful, there is, let’s call it that, a joke or a wink in the final credits.
Terror. United States, 2024. Original title: “The Exorcism”. 95′, SAM 16. Of: Joshua John Miller. With: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, David Hyde Pierce, Chloe Bailey. Rooms: Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Cinépolis Avellaneda, Showcase Belgrano.
