Review by dingane

This is not a horror movie. It isn't even really a movie. It's a sermon of Evangelical Christian talking points masquerading as a demon possession movie. I think it was probably shown as advanced screenings in churches around the country which is why it has a 97% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (30% critic rating) and somehow still a decent rating on IMDB as well.

And I wouldn't even be mad at the sermonizing if it was done well. There's a whole genre in horror dedicated to "The atheists were wrong and Satan/Evil is real!" I mean, that was the essential point of The Exorcist. But this was just so ham-fisted and terrible. You could more accurately title this movie "Atheist Straw Man the Movie." Also, I like so bad they're good movies. This isn't one of those. It's literally just like going to church.

I knew it would be nothing but boring sermonizing about 30 or 40 min in where the demon admonishes everyone for being desensitized by movies and video games. That's when I knew that nothing interesting would happen. It would just be a long drawn-out sermon. I wanted to leave but one of my buddies thought it might turn around. It didn't.

Then after the climax when you think it's finally over there's a whole extended anti-climax scene with Glenn Beck.

Apparently the Director said this movie was intended as a bait-and-switch to get horror audiences in to hear a sermon. Well, it worked on me and my friends.