Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes

Paranormal Entity 3: The Exorcist Tapes AKA Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes

Well in the UK Paranormal Entity as four movies in this series, they all stand alone movies, in series, all have different names in US.

I enjoyed Paranormal Entity I thought was very decent movie, then the second at the times was called Paranormal Entity 2 aka Gacy House (2010), Which I thought it was very boring and did not like it at all.

This movie dose not take long to get going at all, strange things start to happen as first few scenes of the movie, they okay but nothing we not seen before and done a lot better.

Another thing never really moved the story forward, they just stayed on the same level for all of the movie.

It kept me watching me the whole movie, I wasn't bored and even with some of the bad acting and some really bad script.

The movie wasn't actually scary or even creepy and I find most parts very funny and I laughed so many time, my brother asked me what comedy are you watching lol

3 out of 10

I never came across a DVD called Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes. But I do came across Paranormal Entity 3. And let that be the same flick. Pure commercially chosen that title but be advised. It had nothing to do with paranormal entities. It is in fact a pure possession flick. It was based on the story of Anneliese Michel.

Anneliese Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism. The case has been labelled as a misidentification of mental illness, negligence, abuse, and religious hysteria. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. Soon, she began hallucinating while praying. In 1973, she suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was "damned" and would "rot in hell". On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 68 pounds (30.91 kilograms). Three motion pictures, The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Requiem (2006), and the Asylum film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, are loosely based on Michel's story.

Horror buffs will have noticed one word, The Asylum. Again, Asylum films tried to pick in on the success of a blockbuster. sadly they failed. The flick has nothing to offer. The first second I laughed out loud already by seeing a so-called German. What a cliché that was. Not only that, they tried to let English actors to speak English with a German accent. It sounded like inspector Clouseau...Further we have a lot of priests just talking and stating in front of the camera about Anneliese. Anneliese herself didn't look possessed. She looked like a girl waking up with her eye make-up still on. Nobody really was convincing. What was interesting was the use of real audio footage of Anneliese but sadly they edited it 3 times into the flick.

A very annoying turkey, maybe if you watch it p*ssed and proud you do will have a laugh. The only thing that it had in common with the paranormal entity franchise was the nudity (boobs) in it. And they do distract you from the story. Maybe her juggs were possessed?

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 2/5

Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011)

1/2 (out of 4)

The Asylum's attempt to cash in on countless "exorcism" films including THE LAST EXORCISM, which this is a mockbuster of. Not only that but the studio tries to claim that the true case of Anneliese Michel, a German girl who was believed to have been possessed by the devil, is featured in this "found footage" horror movie. In the film we see Anneliese (Nikki Muller) as she goes through various physical and psychological situations and the locals priests feels she's possessed while the doctors from the hospital thinks she's just mentally troubled. The footage will let the truth be known. ANNELIESE: THE EXORCIST TAPES is an extremely bad movie that lacks any real imagination and in the end its 90-minutes just go by so slowly that you'll wish you were the one possessed by the devil. I think a lot of the blame has to go towards the actual story, which simply gives us nothing new or interesting. We never really get to know any of the characters. We never care about any of the characters and there's not a single second where any of them don't come off more annoying than anything else. It also doesn't help that the director filmed everything so bland that there's just never anything that pulls you into the film. The lack of any real suspense or drama is just the death nail. Even worse is that there's not a single frame where you feel as if you're watching some sort of found footage as it's clear what we're seeing isn't real for one but it's clearly also not shot in 1976, which is the date it takes place. There are two things that kept me from giving this a BOMB rating and one is the performance as Muller. I thought she actually did a pretty good job in the part but it's just a shame her talents were in such a worthless movie. The second thing that "worked" is that the film thankfully got so bad to where I got a couple big laughs. One came from the horrendous German accents and the other came from a scene where the possessed girl tries to sexually assault one of the priests.

I've watched this just a few moments ago and I don't believe how people are trying to copy/paste the real life's of people like Anneliese's real story. If you want to know the real life and what really happened to her go and watch the documentary, or read it on Google.

The Exorcist Tapes is the third movie in the very loose Paranormal Entity/Investigations franchise and is made by infamous production company The Asylum (Who I'm sure I don't need to introduce).

It tells the true story of Anneliese Michel and the case of her supposed exorcism and the two warring factions who tried to decide her fate. The doctors who wanted her to go to a hospital and seek medical treatment and the parents/priests who deemed her possessed and demanded she be subject to an exorcism.

The movie plays out as if it's real footage of the event which I find a tad exploitative and in bad taste considering the true story, what happened and the fate that Anneliese was finally dealt.

In true Paranormal Entity and Asylum tradition the movie looks ugly, has no budget behind it, has a mediocre cast and people behind the camera who must have just graduated amateur film school.

If you want to know the story of Ms.Michel then google it, maybe watch the documentary but leave this nonsense in the cold where it belongs.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Rather bad taste pretending it's real footage based on what actually happened

Everything is just so poor