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The Exorcist franchise must be pulling a Halloween with late sequels, as this incarnation has promised a trilogy. Unlike the Halloween latebe's, these are worthy. So far.
I'm this installment, photographer Victor Fielding's pregnant wife, Sorenne, gets caught in an earthquake and falls injured in Haiti. The doctor tells Vic he can only save one of them.
Thirteen years later, in Georgia, we find Vic living with his young daughter, Angela, about middle-school age, and we assume he chose the baby, though the obvious choice was his wife. Think about it: the child dies and goes straight to heaven, not having to worry about going to hell for being human.
But there lurks a void. Wanting to know her mother so much, the sister heads out to the woods with her white bestie, Catherine, who proposes they try to contact her dead mother by lighting a candle and conjuring her.
They go missing for three days.
When found, the children swear it was only three hours, and are tandemly possessed by the demon Pazuzu, the one who really answered them.
The church doesn't approve the exorcism, so the community takes up the charge, including Chris McNeil from The Exorcist, reprising Ellen Burstyn's role. Terrifying, gory attacks follow, and it's revealed by Pazuzu that Vic indeed chose his wife to live, but she died, and the doc cut the baby out of her. Then, Pazuzu--the demon from the first Exorcist film, though he's never mentioned--reveals that only one of the children will survive the exorcism, and they must choose.
The shocks were creepily done, dirty and nasty with no disappointments. Thus I look highly on this film, but of course it's not as good as The Exorcist or The Exorcist III, maybe as good as Exorcist II: The Heretic. Linda Blair performs a cameo as Regan, who was estranged from her mother after the latter wrote a book about the exorcism.
If you haven't checked it out, it's a must-see!
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