The Exorcist: Believer - Review - A New Low for One of the Worst Directors Alive: David Gordon Green 

Blatty actually did push his beliefs, but because he did it with unwavering conviction, and told a good story it didn't matter. Blatty's Exorcist book and to some extent the film adaptation mission statement was to scare people back to faith. David Gordon Green and Blumhouse's mission statement is how can we milk a franchise.

@@JarMar3296 Thank you. Could you point me to a source for Blatty wanting to bring/scare people back to faith? I would like know more.

I have no respect for faith, but love the original as a cool horror movie. This new one, I will never ever see.

Your worries were justified. Right now I think they are only planning on releasing a sequel in 2025 but let's see how well this movie performs.

​​@@geekinwithJamesHancockIt won't be a hit. The Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert movie is tracking almost a $100 million opening. This reboot franchise died before it started.

I thought the movie was well made. William F. never set out to make a horror movie, but one about the nature of evil and faith. True Believer is an examination of the intent of evil and that faith can be strengthened by communal affirmation. I also thought the ending was exceptionally moving, because it shows that sometimes there is a reason for God’s apparent trauma on us. Some times we have to be blind to truly see. It is flawed, but I was quite impressed 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

​@mananimal3644 LMFAO you're delusional, is that you david?

All these remakes are are bad bands doing covers of great songs

Absolutely

Hallowe’en season of the witch has a cult following

@@mynyddyquartzite2034 it's the only sequel I own on BD. I just don't really consider it Halloween at this point, few do now. I love arguments of people arguing Halloween 5, 6, H2O, Resurrection, Zombie's H2, HK, HE are better than Halloween 3 because Michael Myers... kay...

"The corporate product I consume makes me smarter than you because you like a different corporate product" 🤓

after the first 3 Halloween movies there should have been no more halloween films i am fine with Halloween 2

Seriously. Loved it. It actually made me laugh throughout. Its so out of character lol. while so many youtube channels just hate review everything. I come here for an even keeled review. But i really got a kick of this. It must really be that bad.

Agreed. It's a refreshing change of pace NOT to have someone sugar coating or patronizing. Honesty!!

I always ignore reviews and go anyway to support the film and make my own judgement.

He gave us the best on screen Michael, that counts for A LOT in my book lol

I did the same and absolutely hated it. Hope you have a better time!😊

@@chicagoturntablism Well I hated it too lol

Hell yeah. In his early days I considered myself a fan of his work but the last few years have completely destroyed his reputation.

'Joe' was fantastic! 'Believer' not so much.

His TV comedy work is great too: Eastbound and Down, Vice Principles, and The Righteous Gemstones are hilarious.

Also helped that Joe stayed very close to the source material by the late great Larry Brown. Green, when left to his own devices and with his familiar writing partners, seems to not be able to get out of his own way.

I'll be waiting eagerly to see the box office results for the weekend. I have no idea how ticket buyers might react once the negative word of mouth begins to spread.

So rather watching the movie yourself and be the judge you are letting a critic decide whether you go see a movie or not?

It was actually a good movie. William Fredkin did not set out to make a horror movie , but an examination of faith and the true nature of evil. The makers of True Believer aimed for the same. It is flawed but it does pin point what evil’s intent is and that faith can also come from community affirmation. The ending was quite moving.

Most ticket buyers just don't care about negative word of mouth if the film has a certain cache. This already has 55 percent on RT with public reviews, which of course is pretty mediocre but not pure shite.@@geekinwithJamesHancock

It’s the biggest piece of 💩 movie of the century

He just dropped his review lol

Mark Kermode knew William Friedkin quite well.

He said the best part of this movie is it ends.

Jason Blum and David Gordon Green have formed a truly unholy alliance. Because some of their collaborations make money, they will sadly continue to wreak havoc with some of our favorite classic horror movies.

My exact same comment on another review of this movie. Absolute flabbergasted

Short answer is money. We have to do better as an audience. For about 10 of us that can see through bad writing, there’s 100 people that gobble that bad writing up and drive the profits, which always will allow crap to be greenlit.

Imagine if hat money had been used to develop original screenplays. They could have paid $500,000 to 800 very lucky screenwriters and at a minimum come up with a handful of brilliant ideas.

Two priests gave their lives to save her daughter and David Gordon Greene with his stupid writers decided to make her grumble about it. How much of an airhead do you have to be to write something like this in a followup to The Exorcist? It is staggering. Those guys have too many emotional and mental blind spots to do anything but brutalist humor.

@@paulascott5701 ...AND, in the movie when she goes in...ALONE...SHE GETS HER EYES GOUGED OUT!!!! one priest SACRIFICED HIS LIFE and it saved her daughter, what did getting her eyes GOUGED OUT do? In the end all that ended up doing was reuniting Chris with her estranged daughter, WHICH REALLY ONLY BENEFITED HER!!!! 😤

The only agenda here is bad writing

Yeah, that's the biggest problem with this movie...WOKENESS... Every movie has an agenda, "real art" got something to say. "Anti woke" moviegoers are so sensitive. Talking about the patriarchy within the church or religious institutions makes total sense. What's not so great, it's the fact that the comment a character makes it's so literal and surface level that in the end, it's just something someone says in the film but doesn't have any impact. It's just exposition with neither payoff nor world/mythology building.

100% agree. In the early days, I really loved what he was doing with his career.

It's kinda hard to believe that Green was conceived, produced and released 😂

I just don’t know where they can take the sequels though? The Exorcist really doesn’t have much going on to stretch it out for two more movies. Even this first one was flat - the thought of a trilogy is bonkers

She was an emotional basket case in the first movie. She begged Karras to help her daughter. Two men died saving her daughter. What an ungrateful and insulting thing to say.

David Gordon Green should stick to what he does best: comedies and dramas. I also heard that won't be directing THE EXORCIST:DECEIVER due to being busy co-producing an HBO comedy series as there are many other worse filmmakers that are out there for the last 20(-to-30) years(with many of them being complete scumbags off-camera[and off-screen]).

And what's wild is, Green was apparently attached to do the remake of SUSPIRIA, one of my all-time favorite movies! Thank goodness THAT didn't work out, and the version Luca Guadagnino made turned out decent (it's fine as long as you don't really think of it as a full-on remake of Argento's original). I can only imagine what Green's version would've been like!

Prepare yourself because Cruising is disturbing stuff

@@bo2720 oh dude. I love that movie

Nice! Cruising on the big screen is going to be insane. It's an astonishing time capsule of the hardcore side of New York nightlife back in the late Seventies.

😂

I saw Transformers 2 one time but I don't remember a single scene, lol.

@@geekinwithJamesHancock the only scene that sticks with me is the testicular decepticon hanging on a pyramid. It haunts me

@@justinhenry4102 *I AM DIRECTLY BELOW THE ENEMY SCROTUM*

Worlds Most Cheesiest Movie Quotes has this in the compilation! xD @@NebLleb

Season 1 was good. Season 2 was alright. Shame it was cancelled. 🤷‍♂️

I loved the TV show.

Is it on streaming?

​@@cameronscott7304i watched it on Amazon prime a few months ago

Absolutely agree. Blew me away and no ones mentioned it apart from you

I have no fucking idea how Julia Roberts won Best Actress over her.

@@mattjones7226 Because shes Julia Roberts playing a blonde, trashy, hayseed sassy lawyer in a mini skirt. Its as bad as Sandra Bullock playing a blonde, sassy, ugh.

Not only that, but this abomination of a remake went out of its way to give Christians and ESPECIALLY Catholics a cinematic slap-in-the-face. The “ecumenical exorcism” alone proves this point quite nicely. First of all, the Catholic priest is very conspicuously written out of the “ecumenical exorcism” at the start. Allegedly this was because the local Diocese still believed the girls were suffering from mental illness and forbade the priest from taking part. (Realistically there COULD have been one other reason for the Diocese to forbid the priest from getting involved if the writers ACTUALLY BOTHERED TO DO ANY RESEARCH, but I’ll get to that later.) Later on the priest decides to go through with the exorcism anyway, only for the demon to swiftly kill him off before he can even finish praying the Our Father. If that’s not a blatant middle finger to Catholicism specifically, then I honestly don’t know what is. And secondly, the participants in the “ecumenical exorcism” include a Hoodoo rootwork healer working alongside the Christian exorcists, which would absolutely NEVER happen in reality. Hoodoo, like all pagan religions, is strictly anathema to Christianity. In fact, Catholics in particular believe that pagan/occult practices of any kind would only INVITE DEMONS IN rather than exorcise them. This would have been a MUCH more plausible reason for the Diocese to forbid the priest from getting involved, because having a Catholic priest conduct an exorcism in tandem with a pagan ritual would be a spiritual suicide mission as far as the Catholic Church is concerned. That in turn raises A LOT of serious questions as to why the other Christian denominations didn’t also refuse to participate, but I digress.

Good film

Well I just might have to sneak out to see When Evil Lurks. It's playing at a few theaters here in New York.

@@geekinwithJamesHancock If you do, I think you'll be pleased.

Good man we need to help small films and not just diss big films - great video. I disagree a bit. But the main thesis... can't dispute. Horrible film (no pun intended) lol@@geekinwithJamesHancock

Much better possession movie, IL demonio (1963). Exorcist stole a scene from it.

It really is astonishing. And to add insult to injury, he has enough of a track record to launch new franchises of his own, but clearly has nothing original to offer to the horror genre.

@@geekinwithJamesHancock yeah i really enjoyed Pineapple Express and Joe. He shouldve just kept doing those sort of movies. Have no idea why he decided to take on these beloved horror franchises and just sh*t on em.

Because he's become woke, and because his first Halloween film made a bundle of dough. After Believer, I'm now done with him when it comes to horror. They need someone new for the next film, as well as new writers. They also need to shoot on film. Digital makes films like these look so clear and crisp that it feels phony.

He literally gave Halloween BY FAR the most success the franchise has ever seen.

​@jessesikora955 I mean his first Halloween was alright. I thought the second and especially the 3rd were awful.

I'd say the Omen should be a part of that trilogy

Rosemary's Baby was remade actually, but it was awful.

Good choices.

There is a 1976 Made-For-TV movie called: "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby". It has little connection to the 1967 novel by Ira Levin, on which the first film was based. It is not related to Levin's 1997 sequel novel, "Son of Rosemary."

And for his next trick, he'll give us four possessed children. That'll definitely make the movie four times as good, lol.

Even Hellraiser! He has dirt on studio heads, I'm convinced now

​@@aly4920yeah hes suppose to direct the hellraiser HBO series

​@@zacheryhole3294 Nooooo!😮

There's a planned trilogy, but DGG is not signed as director for the next two.

@@romanseanothat’s what they’re backtracking to now, but the plan before the poor reception was to have David run it back like he did on his Halloween trilogy

At a minimum we can help save people some of their hard-earned money.

1000% this. Intelligent story, genuinely frightening, and inventive next chapter that really captures the "mood and feel" of the original.

evil dies tonight 😂 i kinda like part 2 Halloween ends was straight trash

I liked the series first season.

In a weird way, I respect their courage sitting in a theater with a live audience. The audience could have easily formed an angry mob and torn them to pieces, lol.

Kills was a Much worse movie, thats where it all went wrong, no movie could make up for that piece of shit

It kills me that Friedkin is not alive today to provide some color commentary on this new movie.

I think on a positive side, it's best that he didn't get to see this.@@geekinwithJamesHancock