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Exorcist: The Beginning
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Horror - 2004
5.1
10%
30
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
Director:

Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
114 min
Release date:
20 Aug 2004
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$80,000,000
Revenue:
$78,000,586
Awards:
6 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
The serious Catholic themes that made the original film genuinely disturbing have been flattened out into a cartoonish backstory pitting Merrin against Nazi storm troopers.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
27 Feb 2007
rotten:
Blood, flies, maggots, ravenous hyenas, power failures, grave-digging and much ineffectual voodoo ensue.
– Ron Stringer,
L.A. Weekly,
26 Aug 2004
rotten:
As shocking as an Dokken album cover and, finally, as pious as The Passion of the Christ.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
24 Aug 2004
rotten:
Never feels like anything other than generic, brain-dead, Dolby-jolt, multiplex hackwork -- I kept expecting Skarsgard's habitually catacomb-prowling Merrin to bump flashlights with Lara Croft.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
23 Aug 2004
fresh:
It rates fairly high on both the Scare-O-Meter and Gross-Out Scale, with an early hyena attack guaranteed to have you flinching in terror.
– Glenn Lovell,
San Jose Mercury News,
23 Aug 2004
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