Greetings,
Well this is my first Blog post. I'm doing this because I'm currently taking part in the Public Libraries Web 2.0 training, and one of the first thing you have to do is to create a blog. So here it is. I hope you find it interesting...although I am not promising anything... haha
I have to say, I find it hard to think of things to write. But I guess I could write about the movie I saw on the weekend.
It was The Last Excorcist, and dude, was it scary.
If you're planning on going to see it, I'd suggest that you read no further as I'm including spoilers...
Anyway, its a mockumentary about a priest who has, basically, lost his faith and is about to quit the priesthood. He starts off telling us that he doesn't believe in excorcisms and that he hasn't for awhile (after reading an article about a kid who somehow dies from suffocation from an excorcism), so he decides to take a camera crew to the last excorcism that he plans on performing.
It's extremely hard to like the priest. You can see that he's charismatic, and his followers love him, but the way he talks about decieving people about excorcisms and with his whole belief in God makes him really hard to connect to.
So Priest Cotton (yes, that is his name!) randomly chooses a letter from his "fan mail" and briefly reads it through, and this ends up being the family that he and his crew go to see.
So he takes us for a drive to some old hick country town and proceed to the very outskirts to an isolated farm. We meet the son on the way, who couldn't be angrier about the priest being there and tells him to, you know, get lost. But they continue to the farm where we meet the redneck, boozo, highly religious father and his possessed daughter.We find out that the daughter has been taken out of school and church by her father, you never really find out why, but I assume it's something to do with religious beliefs. PC (priest Cotton) then performs some tests on the daughter, basically she puts her feet in a tub of water and we see PC drop something in and the water starts to boil. (At this point, I was really starting to hate PC, I mean, I get that he'd lost his faith or whatever, but these people were relying on him to help them, and he was putting on a performance)
So, now we see the setting up of the excorcism, which consists of and Ipod with "demonic" noises and some fishing wire, some electric shock rings, and so on and so forth. He performs the excorcism, and all goes well. PC declares the daughter to be free of demonic possession and goes back to his hotel. At some point during the night we follow the crew to PCs room at the hotel and the daughter is there, And something is obviously wrong, she spews and tries to hook up with one of the crew and is just being plain weird, so they take her to the hospital. And we find out she's pregnant. And my first thought, along with everyone else's is that it's the fathers.
PC tries to get the local priest in on the action but he declines, saying that the father was quite aggressive the last time they spoke and he doesn't think that he'd want to see him. He does, however, agree that if the father wants to see him, he will go.
Then, it all starts to go a bit crazy. They end up taking the daughter home and the PC tries to convince the father to get her to see a psych but the father goes nuts and pretty much says, if you wont excorcise her again, then get out, and goes off to pray. A huge commotion suddenly goes on upstairs and they all run up (apart from the father who is still outside praying) to her room where you can hear her throwing herself against the door and playing a recorder (wierd!!). Finally they get into her room, but cant see her until she makes a noise and they find her on top of her wardrobe. They decide to kidnap her (basically) but the father starts shooting at them, and so PC agrees to the excorcism.
The excorcism takes place in the barn. Basically PC tells the daughter to call forth the "demon" and eventually the "demon" takes over. Then it seems that it's not a demon, but just the daughter is ashamed, because she had sex with some guy who works in a tuckshop. So PC and gang head home. But on the way home, they drive past the tuckshop where the guy who plowed the daughter works. So they decide to stop in, and find out that said guy is gay.
So PC and gang turn around and head back to the farmhouse. No one is there, but they here the daughter screaming, somewhere out in the forest. They follow her screams, and we see the local priest in a red robe, the daughter lying on a flat rock thing, trying to give birth and the father tied to a tree, along with a bunch of other people surrounding them. There is also a huge bonfire nearby. The daughter gives birth to some sort of creature (the devil) and the local priest throws it into the fire. There's screaming and explosions from the bonfire and suddenly there is only the daughter left. PC walks out to the fire with his cross out, and you hear one of the crew screaming that "they're here", the camera guy turns around and we see her get chopped up. The poor camera guys sprints away, and eventually stops running, a twig cracks and suddenly the son is there with a knife. He slashes the camera guys throat and the camera falls to the ground. The end.
I was a bit disappointed with the end. What happened to PC? What happened to the daughter and her father? And what's with the local priest and the son?
