SYNOPSIS: A paranormal investigator (mourning the loss of her sister who was killed during an exorcism) investigates a high- rise building on Christmas Eve only to find herself trapped and tormented by the evil spirits that reside there. Will she be able to make it out alive or will this be the last Christmas she ever sees? REVIEW: I hadn’t heard a whole lot of great things about American Exorcist before I watched it, so I went into it not really expecting to be blown away or anything. Format wd my passport. Word 2016 remove footer.
I thought that it sounded like it may be somewhat interesting and a good way to kill 90 minutes or so but after everything was said and done all I can say is that while it isn’t horrible it is one of those movies that you watch once and then forget all about a couple of days later. I liked the premise and thought that it was a good idea for the most part. We have this paranormal investigator checking out this old building where several terrible things took place in the past (including a suicide, a fire, and a shooting during a holiday office party). I thought that it sounded interesting and had potential to be quite good despite all the negative things I’d heard about it. While the plot of the movie may be promising, something obviously went wrong with the execution and I was rather underwhelmed in the end as a result. I think the biggest problem is that while the people behind the movie may have had a good idea, they didn’t really know what to do with it and it kept the movie from being as good as it could have been. Instead of an exciting, creepy movie about someone trying to avoid all the evil spirits that inhabit the building and making it out alive we get a rather boring little flick that involves her wandering around not really doing much of anything except being scared by jump scare after jump scare. It’s unfortunate because American Exorcist could have been something special had things been done a little differently. I think another problem is that there just aren’t enough characters and things get very redundant and boring quickly. Most of the film involves the main character snooping around an empty building and running from apparitions. ![]() ![]() She doesn’t really interact face-to-face with anyone for most of the movie (other than toward the beginning) and most of her interactions are done via phone or walkie talkie after she gets to the building, which makes for some mighty boring scenes. I think that there should have been at least a few other people trapped in the building with her to make things a little more interesting because if nothing else at least they would have been there to get killed off (which is another issue I had with things because the body count is basically non-existent aside from the massacre that takes place in the opening scene). To me the entire movie just seemed like the exact same scene repeatedly (the main character wanders around different rooms, a ghost shows up and scares her and she runs away) it really could have benefited from having more characters in it to at least break up the monotony a bit. I also wasn’t really feeling the big twist that takes place toward the end. It felt forced and didn’t quite work as well as the filmmakers wanted it to.
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