The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism is indeed what I am hoping for, it to be the last. This film was directed by Daniel Stamm. Daniel, who is from Germany, is most well known for a film called' A Necessary Death' which came out in 2008. He has also won awards for short films.
Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr and Louis Hertham star in The Last Exorcism. The movie starts out with promise. Reverand Cotton Marcus has been completing exorcisms since he was a kid. He finds he is running on auto pilot and doesn't really believe in what he is doing. He takes a film crew Iris Reisen (Iris Bahr) and Dan Moskowitz (Adam Grimes) with him to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere to prove exorcism is a fraud.
Louis Sweetzer (Louis Herthum) is a man who claims to have a daughter, Nell (Ashley Bell), who is possessed. Cotton riggs Nells bedroom to move and sound like there is a demon. Cotton completes the ritual, takes the money offered to him and leaves to stay in a hotel before leaving to go back home. Nell shows up at Cotton's hotel in the middle of the night acting weird. From there, the hope is to be scared or at least intrigued. I was neither. I will leave the rest to your imagination.
The ending was like taking a blunt trauma to the head. I just sat there wondering why? I saw everyone else in the theatre did the same thing.
The budget was $1.8 million and I wondered who got all the money? It was not spent well. I think if this movie was made into a short, which is what Danial Stamm is good at, it could have been good. Making this into a full 99 minute movie was not a good call. The beginning and end was focused on too much, like a short film does. If I can say anything good about the film, the actors did a good job and the way it was filmed did not give me motion sickness. Unfortunately the film acted like it was written by separate people and just plugged into scenes without communication with each other.
I am hoping Daniel Stamm's next movie, due out in 2012 called 'The Night Chronicles: Twelve Strangers', is a much better film. It is going to be about twelve jurors who preside over a case that ends up having a twist of the supernatural.
I give Eli Roth props for producing The Last Exorcism as he is trying his hand in other areas of horror, however, he may want to go back to torturing people with gore, not with movies like this. Sorry Eli, still love ya!