@illusion-xiii

1 year ago

When you started describing this movie, I pretty quickly started thinking that it doesn't feel like a horror movie, it feels like a superhero origin movie. They're creating a world where demons are a real and accepted part of reality, where they even draw the distinction between demonic possession and mental illness. And then they depict this Xavier-esque school for training exorcists to wield supernatural power, only you come to realize they have never succeeded. They may battle and subdue many demons with their arsenal of faith, but every victim dies, and the humans are ultimately losing this battle. Enter the nun, an outsider, an underestimated underdog who brings something new to their strategy: compassion, empathy, concepts the priests had never conceived of, because they entered every exorcism as soldiers, rather than healers. And now the Vatican has found something that strengthens the victim against the demon, and gives the possessed the power to escape and break free from possession... and suddenly the winning streak these demons have held for thousands of years has been broken. And they are pissed! Yeah, I kinda wish this movie did better, because that sounds like a franchise I'd like to see!

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