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Director: David S Goyer
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From Time Out London
David S Goyer’s non-kosher riff on ‘The Exorcist’ is stillborn, as was its heroine Casey’s twin brother, strangled in utero by her umbilical cord. But now the latest in an infected bloodline to be possessed by a dybbuk (a spirit) wants to be born. It all began with her grandma’s experience at the hands of Nazi eugenicists, and now college girl Casey (Odette Yustman) must ‘finish what began in Auschwitz’.One of her brown eyes turns Aryan blue and she is compelled to pad around in her underwear. Her sensitive boyfriend (Cam Gigandet) and sassy girlfriend (Meagan Good) can’t help, so Casey asks a rabbi (an embarrassed Gary Oldman) to rid her of this evil spirit.
Goyer throws everything at this preposterous plot – a demonic child, spooky mirrors, a rabid dog with an upside-down head and an exorcism conducted in Hebrew. It’s almost too silly to be offensive. Almost, but not quite.
Author: Nigel Floyd
Time Out London Issue 2010, 26 Feb - 4 Mar, 2009
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- Posted on Feb 27 2009 18:20 Ok... im a teenager and i want to go to the cinema. I dont like wasting time watching a rubbish film, so honestly is this any good. Is the plot good and will it actually scare me?
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- Posted on Feb 26 2009 18:53 its a good film for teenagers and there mates i thought it was good so im going to rate it full.
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- Posted on Feb 26 2009 18:51 this is an awsome film for teenages to go and see with there mates its good and it gives you the jumps sometimes thankyou
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Cast & crew
Director: David S Goyer
Cast: Odette Yustman, Jane Alexander, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Idris Elba, Atticus Shaffer, James Remar, Carla Gugino full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 87 mins
UK Release: Feb 27 2009
US Release: Jan 9 2009
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