Film review
I’m in a movie theater all alone. Good setting to see a movie with Satan inside. I know that this film has reached fourth place among the highest grossing. I know that it was signed by a novice feature filmmaker with good experience as director of photography in series like ‘Fariña’ or ‘Velvet’. I know that the spatial effects are signed by Drama FX, based on Paseo Mateo Errota in Donostia. I know it has four writers, which, right off the bat, makes me cringe. To deal with the Evil One, better one at a time.
That I know about ’13 exorcisms’. Apart from the fact that her main character was scared of scary movies (that’s what they’re made for, María) until she realized during the filming that everything was a lie (already…).
The problem is that in that movie, I would say poorly structured, poorly lit, poorly created (please, where are we going with that possession scene in the doctor’s house! A dumbest thing hasn’t been seen since they made you ‘boo’ from behind and you got scared), those who made it didn’t know which card to stick to. They couldn’t decide if they wanted to imitate (badly) ‘The Exorcist’ or ‘Carrie’. They were not sure if they believed in the existence of Evil or if they preferred to trust everything to mental disorders caused by the intake of drugs and alcohol that accelerate various paranoias caused by being the daughter of a family harassed by inner ghosts and given over to a cave Catholicism. They doubted whether to draw the exorcist as a Galician Karras father (what more would Sacristán, no matter how Don José, have wanted than to have been Jason Miller!) or as an outright kid. They only knew that when the Devil said “Were you looking for me, priest?”, they were writing the phrase that could have saved this movie star. But he did not.
13 exorcisms
España. 2022. 100 m. ‘Thriller’.
Address:
Jacob Martinez.Photography:
Daniel Sosa.Song:
You were sweating.Interpreters:
Maria Romanillo, Ruth Diaz, Urko Olazabal, Jose Sacristan, Pablo Revuelta.