Sadistic: The exorcism of Lily Deckert

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Trailer—Sadistic: The exorcism of Lily Deckert

source: The Chosen One

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I saw the cover art and thought "This is probably pretty good." I couldn't have been more wrong. This is 224 minutes I'll never get back, but after an hour we were determined to see it through, as "maybe it gets better?" We made it the through the first bit just laughing at the terrible acting, facial expressions, camera work, lack of plot and general badness of it all. This Hightower Jr. Guy should be embarrassed. His acting, directing, production value etc is sooo bad, and of the credits, 70% go to him, apparently he did everything, and like another reviewer mentioned, it's very much giving "Filmed on the original iPhone in 2007." During the last hour of the movie there are literal white spots on the camera lense. Really low quality movie with ZERO scare factor or redeeming qualities. I've seen amatuer porns with better acting and production value.

This is so bad. I've never seen a movie this bad. I was using it as background noise as I use my phone because I knew it was going to be bad. I didn't expect this though. I was shocked to see it was released this year. It gives 2010 vibes. Like it was filmed on a phone at the turn of technological advances for phones. The lighting was horrible. It was a scene where every single person in this film was standing outside and there was a flashlight on one persons face and everyone else was pitch black. They could've held up a flashlight in the air to light everyone since a porch light wasn't available. They also did not remove mistakes from the film. There were at least two times in the same scene where someone forgot their line and there was a brief pause as we waited for them to find the line or move on. They could've cut 1.5 hours off this 2.5 hour movie to at least bring this movie up to a current decade. The actors/actresses must've came from Wish. That's crazy that they really thought we wanted to be tortured for 2 hours.

A girl gets possessed by an evil spirit. Or sort of. And starts acting weird. You might think 'Wow, that sounds like a great plot because you have never seen anything like that before. Well, that's probably because you've never seen a horror movie before. Let this be a warning, there's a curtain chance you will never see another after this. For those who like the horror genre: This is beyond bad. It's more like a Tick Tock challenge can you watch more then 7 minutes. I caught myself counting the hair on my cat's head after 3 minutes. It's a bad attempt to make a bad movie. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

The film opens with Lily (Haleigh Johnson) and five friends going into an old house to look for ghosts. They find them and the group goes missing. Lily's sister Jackie (Caylin Brooke Sams) with the help of her detective boyfriend Joel (John Michael Hightower Jr.- also writer, director, editor) go look for her. Eventually she is found, but Lily just is not right. They bring in Father Dave (Scott Oakley) to perform an exorcism which was anti-climatic in a movie with exorcism in the title. The film was way too dark with extended all black scene with people talking. What scenes did have light it was dim. I suspect this was done for effect and that effect ended up tuning people out. We could listen to the radio if we wanted a black screen. Also during the film two white spots appeared on the screen, sometimes just one. My TV screen is real clean right now and the spots stayed. Apparently one camera had some dirt on the lens. The film ran way too long. There were extended scenes could have been shortened and some cut altogether. However when the writer/director/actor is also the editor they want all the labor pains. This is not to say it was all bad. There were two good scenes. One was when Joel was talking to his Broski. He was very funny on the phone. The second scene was the banter before the seance with Michael Jackson. Had they gone for comedy-horror all the way, I think they might of had a cult classic. The acting was bad. The two main stars have no business being in front of a camera. Did the priest live in a cul-de-sac? Having seen the "Twilight Zone" movie, I saw the stolen ending coming. Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.