The deliberate blurring and out of focus effects seemed forced to make them believable as found footage film. Yet, they had an excellent quality camera, so it is not believable. For someone owning such an expensive camera they sure do film like an amateur, and that was a bit annoying.The problem I have with found footage films is that you always know the fate of the characters beforehand: they're going to die. Yes, to put it bluntly. Otherwise it wouldn't serve a purpose being found footage, would it? Here it is even predicted how they will die, and sure enough they die exactly as predicted, so there were very little surprises.Patrick Fabian plays Reverend Cotton Marcus, who has lost most of his faith and belief in the church, and is now an exorcism fraudster. Showing his tricks upfront was effective and made it more interesting when things really started getting out of hand, and beyond his control. The acting in general was very good, but especially Ashley Bell as the possessed girl.

I had such high hopes for this movie...and no...I wasn't expecting horror; at all.What I was expecting, was something grand...and what I got was disdainfully disappointing.The movie started out, bland, but good and I was thinking, okay...this charlatan is going to pull one too many frauds and get what's coming to him. He'll get a real possessed person, the demons will give him more than he bargained for, and I'll laugh, hysterically, because TV evangelists and fake preachers just out for money (which is far too many) are depraved.What I got was a fairly decent movie, with a ridiculous ending.I went from being hopeful at some scum getting his butt supernaturally kicked...to a bunch of people, lead by some old coot, playing dress up.Robes? Really? If I came upon a scene like that, first thing I'd do is make sure it's not Halloween, second, make sure it's not a movie set and...finally...if both of those scenarios weren't the case, I'd laugh... hysterically.Robes and all that junk are nothing but pomp and show, and no one serious, is going to play dress up dressed like Merlin and his magical court. Waste...waste...waste...

One of my favourites. A big problem with the horror genre -- and especially the possession genre -- is characters that you just don't care about. Nell is very easy to care about. She's a sweet girl from a bad background in a horrific situation that she didn't consent to or ask for. You want her to be okay. The only bad part, in my opinion, is - spoiler! - when she beats the cat to death with the camera. Skip that scene. it's just sad. Yes, it does cast a rather disparaging view on the exorcism, for lack of a better word, industry -- but for good reason. Ashley Bell's awards were well won -- her acting, contortion and natural characterisation of the sad Nell are impeccable.

With a film crew following his last days in the church, a skeptical preacher is called out to perform an exorcism on a remote farm and finds a far greater evil than he ever imagined and must summon all his faith and courage to combat the evil.This was an enjoyable if still somewhat problematic entry. One of it's biggest attributes is the fact that the shaking-camera footage is kept to a minimum throughout here despite the fact that this one is based around the found-footage concept which here is allowed to really showcase the action on-screen. Granted, it might not be a lot but there's still the point of this one keeping us really centered on the action and how enjoyable it is to be able to see what's going on without the blurring images and out-of-focus shots that typically render a lot of these types of films moot. Here, we get to see these all pretty much cleanly which enables the few action scenes to come off rather nicely in the second half where the race to get her out of the house before the father shows up and the finale's Satanic ceremony which is quite a bit of fun throughout the devilish incarnations and action throughout. That is certainly helped along by the different exorcism attempts earlier on where the inhuman actions and responses given to her condition really cement the idea of something out-of-the-ordinary going on and his obliviousness to it all in the face of his documentary attempt makes for some chilling times by exploiting the concept rather nicely. Still, these here don't really allow this one to truly overcome it's few flaws, mainly in the criminal lack of activity that this one undergoes in the middle portions of the film. It really has such little action that it throws in several outside characters merely to try to have some semblance of characters because it doesn't have much of a plot to string that kind of action off of, and leaving these scenes to consist of either endless wandering around the house doing nothing or spouting off inane backstories to keep up with the hoax of what he's accomplishing and neither of these are all that effective at making this one enjoyable. Likewise, the other big flaw here is the criminally underwhelming exorcism scenes that take place here, most notably the second one which is supposedly the true exorcism. The first one is for show and generally supposed to be weak, yet the main one here is really weak and not all that exciting, generally taking up space in the film with it's lack of seriousness and overall underwhelming results. These issues here do hold this one back though it is quite enjoyable nonetheless.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.