I think it's been a really long time since I saw Exorcist 2 or 3. I'll have to give them another watch, though yeah, sounds like 3 was much better, ha. I don't know if I actually have seen the prequels at all... I think I may not have ever wound up seeing them.
I did see Deliver Us from Evil on one of the streaming services (probably Netflix), because I noticed the cover/poster design where it looks like it says "Devil". It sounds familiar, but I can't remember having actually seen it.
Agreed that the end was the lowest point for The Last Exorcism, but I liked it pretty well up until that point. It did a good job with the found-footage aspect and I enjoyed the angle it took... but "ooh, it was a spooky cult" needed more to it than two minutes at the end if it was going to feel earned, ha.
I didn't like The Nun, because they explain exactly what happened in the first five minutes, then have the characters spend an hour and a half solving the mystery that the audience already saw the answer to, and then still act like them solving it is supposed to be a shock of a twist. I hated it, haha. Some of the best creep factor scenes for The Nun II were in the trailer, but I did like it better. It's not like OMG FAVORITE EVER or anything, but I enjoyed it. (Except for one scene that I feel like should have come up again and didn't.) I'm a sucker for all the "other stuff looks like the demon" visual effects. I also did not like the Annabelle movies, but in part because I hate the design of the doll, haha. The "real" (if you want to call it that) Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann... and I find the creepiness to be that juxtaposition in that it's a "cute" looking doll that is responsible for all these horrible things. Then in the movies, even pre-possession, they have this thing that looks like the devil shat it out, and people are surprised it's evil??? It's horrible looking! I liked The Conjuring 1 and 2 quite a bit, though I found the third one kind of boring. And it's sort of a weird thing, but one of Mike Flanagan's movies, "Ouija: Origin of Evil" feels like a better entry into the Conjuring universe, ha. It hits the same recent-but-period horror setting that the Conjuring/spinoffs are set during, but I liked it a lot more than most of them!
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I did see Deliver Us from Evil on one of the streaming services (probably Netflix), because I noticed the cover/poster design where it looks like it says "Devil". It sounds familiar, but I can't remember having actually seen it.
Agreed that the end was the lowest point for The Last Exorcism, but I liked it pretty well up until that point. It did a good job with the found-footage aspect and I enjoyed the angle it took... but "ooh, it was a spooky cult" needed more to it than two minutes at the end if it was going to feel earned, ha.
I didn't like The Nun, because they explain exactly what happened in the first five minutes, then have the characters spend an hour and a half solving the mystery that the audience already saw the answer to, and then still act like them solving it is supposed to be a shock of a twist. I hated it, haha.
Some of the best creep factor scenes for The Nun II were in the trailer, but I did like it better. It's not like OMG FAVORITE EVER or anything, but I enjoyed it. (Except for one scene that I feel like should have come up again and didn't.) I'm a sucker for all the "other stuff looks like the demon" visual effects.
I also did not like the Annabelle movies, but in part because I hate the design of the doll, haha. The "real" (if you want to call it that) Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann... and I find the creepiness to be that juxtaposition in that it's a "cute" looking doll that is responsible for all these horrible things. Then in the movies, even pre-possession, they have this thing that looks like the devil shat it out, and people are surprised it's evil??? It's horrible looking!
I liked The Conjuring 1 and 2 quite a bit, though I found the third one kind of boring.
And it's sort of a weird thing, but one of Mike Flanagan's movies, "Ouija: Origin of Evil" feels like a better entry into the Conjuring universe, ha. It hits the same recent-but-period horror setting that the Conjuring/spinoffs are set during, but I liked it a lot more than most of them!