We follow director Joe Marino as he travels to Italy with the goal of exposing the many crimes of The Vatican, including the disappearance of young women, Satanic rituals, orgies, and exorcisms, all of which the church has worked to cover up. This is one of those mockumentaries (fake documentaries) that tries to get you to believe what you're seeing is real footage, but because the approach (the constant iteration of showing the truth and assertion that the director and crew are making a movie) and the structure are so generic, any elements of originality are sacrificed for routine storytelling. The film's DVD release is positioned ever-so closely to the limited theatrical release of another film titled The Vatican Tapes (unseen by me, as of now), undoubtedly to cause a sense of consumer confusion (or perhaps market saturation) of a genre of films that peaked with its first major hit in 1973 and has yet to impress on a level even remotely close to its grandfather. Whenever a new found footage film hits theaters, it's dismissed almost instantly of a retread of familiar ground, yet films concerning the Catholic church don't get the same sort of dismissal (perhaps because they are now appearing in less and less theaters and more on the direct-to-DVD market?) Whatever the case, Joe Marino's The Vatican Exorcisms adds to the scrapheap of lackluster exorcism films, a genre that some thirty years ago seemed fresh and limitless, but now, is as predictable and as frightening as a child jumping out of bushes shouting "boo" in the middle of the afternoon. Soon, hospital chaplain Father Lozano (Michael Peña) is abandoning psychiatric treatment (Kathleen Robertson plays her useless therapist) and phoning the Warriors of God.While the found footage genre has definitely deserved some of the hate it has gotten over the years, it angers me that films about exorcisms and the conspiracies of The Vatican, which are more uniformly awful than the former, don't seem to get the widespread hate that found footage films do.
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Whether she’s doing the deed herself or causing others to inflict violence, she leaves a wake of bodies through the hospital.
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The hospital? Perhaps a raven attack on the bus? She becomes surly and lascivious, bedeviled by thirst, and increasingly, randomly violent. It’s never really quite clear where the possession comes from (there’s no Captain Howdy to blame). Her possession comes on after a bloody cake cutting accident at the party.
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In our first introduction to her, she’s seen on videotape taken from a psych hospital, scrutinized by Cardinal Bruun (Peter Anderson) and Vicar Imani (Djimon Hounsou), men of the cloth - and possibly of a secretive Vatican order, warriors of god, the guardians of an archive of exorcism materials.Īngela, before she was committed to the psych ward, was celebrating her birthday with boyfriend Pete (John Patrick Amedori) and a surprise visit from her military colonel dad, Roger (Dougray Scott). The possessed in question is the lovely blonde Angela (Olivia Dudley).
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An entry into the demonic possession horror sub-genre, “The Exorcist” this is not - it’s the shoddy, worn-down VHS replica. This may sound like a belief held by misogynist men’s rights activists, but it’s also the thesis of the religious horror flick “The Vatican Tapes,” and a rather clumsily, haphazardly executed one at that.