To be famous.

Review of Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023) by hmmadness79: 👍 5.5/10

Exorcism movies are a dime a demon nowadays and most of them just aren't very good. Hell the Exorcist had a terrible sequel and a recent soft reboot that wasn't very good. If the OG can fail its hard to hit the landing.

This one has a few things going for it, the acting is pretty decent and has an adult become possessed as opposed to a child or teen, its a young adult but still. Also the husband who believes in the possession and needs it to be true which is rare. He needs to believe his wife is possessed and it is not his or her fault she is the way she is.

The man called in to perform the exorcism is also a bad guy. He doesn't want to really help but use this increasingly growing story to make himself famous and earn more money in the future. Using the misery of the woman and her neighbors and family.

The asshole exorcist takes the husband's word on most things like her visions and that she sometimes becomes a pig or whatever. It builds even as some of the neighbors and family start to worry and become uncomfortable and it ends in tragedy.

There are shortcomings and cliches of course but its not a bad exorcism movie. It does have one important message in that yelling out religious rights doesn't excuse everything and everyone involved in this should have been tried as a murderer.