Riding a wave of critical success in the States, The Conjuring has outsold almost every big budget blockbuster of the summer with a meager budget of only $20m in comparison. Directed by James Wan, the man who kick-started the torture-porn sub-genre a decade previously, The Conjuring is a surprisingly blood-free horror that bears more in common with his last work Insidious than … [Read more...]
The Rite (2011) review by That Film Guy
Based on a book called The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, director Mikael Hafstrom brings The Rite to the silver screen. Ostensibly a horror in the same mould as The Exorcist of The Last Exorcism, The Rite actually acts more as simply a personal drama centred around it's lead character. A moderate box office success it took over $90m from a modest budget of $37m. … [Read more...]
The Last Exorcism (2010) review by That Film Guy
Released in 2010 and heavily influenced by The Exorcist, the Eli Roth-produced The Last Exorcism is one a host of modern found footage horrors. Working on the basis that the footage you're watching was found after the traumatic events of the film, it became a popular movement in Hollywood after the staggering success of The Blair Witch Project. The micro-budget of most found … [Read more...]
Review: The Devil Inside (2012)
1973 saw the release of not only the best exorcism film of all time, but the best horror of all time in William Friedkin's The Exorcist. Since then there have been a number of sequels, remakes and imitations that try to channel the same religious fear that this masterpiece inspired. Using similar marketing techniques, such as audience reaction and apocryphal tales of people … [Read more...]
Review: The Exorcist (1973)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003IHVKRY][/pullquote] Horror films are one of the most consistently popular genres in popular culture. There are slasher films like Friday the 13th, torture-porn like Saw and ˜found footage' like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project. There are more … [Read more...]