‘The Exorcism’ Review: Russell Crowe Is Fighting Demons Again But This Time The Devil Is In The Details
20.06.2024 - 20:25
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The Exorcist directed by William Friedkin and written by William Peter Blatty is considered, still, perhaps the greatest horror film of all time, certainly the most popular. The 1973 movie was even nominated for 10 Oscars and won two, unheard of in the genre at that time. It has been endlessly imitated for the past half century right up to now, recently and notably David Gordon Green’s critically reviled 2023 reboot The Exorcist: Believer, which even brought original Exorcist star Ellen Burstyn back into the fold after all these decades. But the OG is impossible to touch, so what was going through Joshua John Miller’s mind when he decided to take on a new film so closely linked to it?
Director and co-writer (with M.A. Fortin) of The Exorcism, Miller has the 1973 film in his family bones, even if he wasn’t born until a year after its release. His father is Jason Miller, the late playwright and actor who so memorably played the doomed Father Karras, who jumped out the window during the climactic exorcism, in Friedkin’s film. It brought Miller an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actor, and as his son says dad would often tell him the famous stories of the film’s making in which, lore would have it, several people connected with it died or were haunted by it in the ensuing years. Even a book has been written on all of this.
With all this background in mind, plus the demons of the Trump era in their heads. Miller and Fortin began writing The Exorcism in 2019, setting it cleverly as a movie, “The Georgetown Project”, within a movie about the making of a film eerily like The Exorcist in which the demons start to take over, particularly for the film’s leading man, Tony Miller (the last name no accident), played by Russell
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