My Best Friend's Exorcism

Name: My Best Friend's Exorcism
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Released: September 30, 2022
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Amiah Miller, Ashley LeConte Campbell, Cameron Bass, Cathy Ang, Chris Lowell

2022

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Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): September 30, 2022 | R

Starring: Amiah Miller, Ashley LeConte Campbell, Cameron Bass, Cathy Ang, Chris Lowell, Clayton Royal Johnson, Cynthia Evans, Elsie Fisher, Erin Ownbey, John Stoneburner, Michael Wayne Foster, Nathan Anderson, Rachel Leah Cohen, Rachel Ogechi Kanu

Summary: Surviving your teenage years isn’t easy, especially when you’re possessed by a demon. It’s 1988, and best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) are navigating boys, pop culture, and a paranormal force clinging to Gretchen like a pair of neon legwarmers. With assistance from overly confident mall exorcist Christian LemonSurviving your teenage years isn’t easy, especially when you’re possessed by a demon. It’s 1988, and best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) are navigating boys, pop culture, and a paranormal force clinging to Gretchen like a pair of neon legwarmers. With assistance from overly confident mall exorcist Christian Lemon (Christopher Lowell), Abby is determined to compel the demon back to the pits of hell—if it doesn’t kill Gretchen first. … Expand

Director: Damon Thomas

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Collider Alyse Wax

Sep 29, 2022

My Best Friend’s Exorcism has something for everyone: strong female characters, spooky atmosphere, humor, heart, a bitchin’ 1980s setting. There is a lot to like here, and plenty to enjoy all year round. Read full review

The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Sep 29, 2022

It’s a devilishly smart and self-aware take on the current trend for Eighties horror homage, lovingly adapted from Grady Hendrix’s 2016 novel of the same name. Read full review

Noel Murray

Sep 30, 2022

At its best and its sharpest, this film is less about supernatural monsters than about the common fear of drifting apart from the people you love. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Sep 30, 2022

My Best Friend’s Exorcism could perhaps do with one or two genuine scares. But for anyone old enough to remember Tiffany and advice columns in teenage girls’ magazines, this is going to deliver a pleasing shot of nostalgia. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 30, 2022

My Best Friend’s Exorcism isn’t funny enough to get away with so few genuine scares, and it isn’t scary enough to save most of its biggest laughs for the final act. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Sep 30, 2022

The film repeatedly undercuts whatever tension is mustered with its frustrating tendency to crack goofy, juvenile jokes. Read full review

Courtney Howard

Sep 30, 2022

Though this ’80s-set horror-comedy takes an old-school approach to capturing the horrific happenings, the stunts are lackluster and the comedic hijinks are a tiresome bore. With very little interest conjured from the filmmakers to properly develop their characters, there’s little incentive to stay interested. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Oct 6, 2022

I wasn't sure what I was going to see and I think that somehow helped me not to have any kind of high expectations, but I certainly think this movie was too soft in almost all its aspects, even in the comedy, so the horror moments also suffer a lot, especially because the moments in which itI wasn't sure what I was going to see and I think that somehow helped me not to have any kind of high expectations, but I certainly think this movie was too soft in almost all its aspects, even in the comedy, so the horror moments also suffer a lot, especially because the moments in which it seeks to use that resource fall quite short, even in its confrontation and final act in which the boring and unexciting exorcism of the title takes place.

I had thought about buying the book on which this movie is based, but now I can only say its results have taken away all my desire to do so.… Expand

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alanpotter17

Mar 8, 2023

O filme até que promete no início, com uma trilha animada (tem até A-ha) e uma vibe meio "Menina Malvada", e a construção dos personagens é boa o suficiente para manter o interesse.
Mas aí quando o filme inventa de falar sobre o exercismo em si, se perde geral. Se perde feio na verdade. éO filme até que promete no início, com uma trilha animada (tem até A-ha) e uma vibe meio "Menina Malvada", e a construção dos personagens é boa o suficiente para manter o interesse.
Mas aí quando o filme inventa de falar sobre o exercismo em si, se perde geral. Se perde feio na verdade. é preciso de muita competência para criar a atmosfera necessária para migrar de gêneros tão distintos entre si. Veja, o problema maior não está na escolha dos gêneros, mas na transição e na construção da atmosfera. Acabou soando muito falso, e a simpatia pelas personagens logo se esvai, se torna um filme aborrecido, chato mesmo.
Veja por exemplo o filme "A vida depois", que também começa good vibes e consegue com maestria inserir um drama pesado. Aqui a confusão que há entre um filme de colegial e um filme que fala de magia e exorcismo, simplesmente não decolou, é como se o roteiro não soubesse o que fazer. Para piorar, tudo soou genérico demais, se ao menos o problema se restringisse à transição, mas no caso o problema persiste, o padre por exemplo é de uma caricatura preguiçosa, o desenrolar todo é ruim.
Em resumo, você pode assistir aos primeiros minutos e ir ver algum filme da saga Crepúsculo, que talvez se divirta mais.… Expand

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