RELEASE DATE RUNTIME IMDB ROTTENTOMATOES METACRITIC
Oct 6, 2023 1hr 51m 5.4 22% 41

Premise:

When two girls disappear into the woods and return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, the father of one girl seeks out Chris MacNeil, who's been forever altered by what happened to her daughter fifty years ago.

Director(s):

David Gordon Green

Writer(s):

Peter Sattler, David Gordon Green, Scott Teems
CAST
Ellen Burstyn … Chris MacNeil
Jennifer Nettles …
Leslie Odom Jr. … Victor Fielding
Ann Dowd …
Raphael Sbarge … Pastor
Olivia O’Neill … Katherine (as Olivia Marcum)
Lidya Jewett … Angela
    • canthidium@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I just rewatched the original and was going to check this out but it is universally panned. Every opinion I’ve watched/read/listened to says it’s terrible. David Gordon Green just seems to want to ruin all these classic horror franchises. What’s next?

      • NeuromancerEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s nothing like the original. It’s filmed really well. Two of the actors are good.

        The whole story is a d rate horror that makes zero sense.

        • canthidium@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          ugh, so disappointing. The only positive I’ve heard from this movie is Ellen Burstyn demanded that instead of her pay, they set up a scholarship for young actors. That’s awesome.

          • NeuromancerEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            She dialed it in. I won’t ruin it for you but she’s so bad In the movie. Not because she lacks talent but the garbage they have say and what happens to her character is garbage.

            The makeup is actually decent. Lighting. Etc. all good.

            Story is just awful. They plan to make two more. I don’t see how as this was bad.

            There was one jump scare. Otherwise nothing. No real horror. My girlfriend said she’s never been bored in a horror movie or felt so bored

            • canthidium@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yes, I heard she is barely in the movie. And the other cameo I heard about is nothing.

              Yeah, I can’t believe it’s a planned trilogy. It does seem that DGG may not be returning to direct though, so that’s promising. From what I’ve heard about the story of this and based on how Haloween went, he seems to be obsessed with the community banding together to fight. And that just doesn’t make sense for an exorcism. I will watch it at some point just for curiosity sake, but I don’t think I will be spending money on it.

              • NeuromancerEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                The other cameo was disappointing. Very flat and needless.

                I like rogue one and the cameo for Vader was incredible. That’s how a cameo should be done.

                This was just a cameo to that person was in it.