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The Vatican Tapes

For 2,000 years the Vatican has recorded evidence of evil. May God have mercy on their souls.

2015 · 1h 31m · PG-13 Horror, Thriller

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Overview

In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.

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The film from director Mark Neveldine is so over the top that one can't help but imagine how the Wayans brothers might lampoon it, then embarrassingly recall them doing exactly so in "A Haunted House."

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Mark Neveldine's first solo directorial effort is a silly, shrieky and eminently watchable exorcism thriller.

Justin Chang, Variety
Fresh

The director Mark Neveldine deploys queasy lighting and a trembling score, but his best choice is to let Ms. Dudley stare at us. She conveys unnerving shifts in self-awareness and sinister intent with her eyes.

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Rotten

It's been a few weeks since the last found-footage demonic-possession chiller, so it must be time for another.

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten

It's the rote B-movie that Neveldine up to now has tried so hard not to make.

Noel Murray, AV Club

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