January 25, 2007 at 11:59 PM
#16401
Participant
If only it were truer to the original, in this way, it may have been scarier. The WB official site spells out the ritual.
http://theexorcist.warnerbros.com/cmp/noflash_phen-fr.html
But I guess Merrin throws out all the rules — most — and wings it, making for a much shorter, swifter, exorcism, succeeding with less ritual and more good-luck.
The short exorcism is sole my major problem with the film. But with the acting of Skarsgard and Mann as the priest recognizing the need for an URGENT exorcism sans Church approval, it satisfies.
M.I.K.E.
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