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August 27, 2010
At the Movies: 'The Last Exorcism' almost a great movie
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
AP Movie Critic
“The Last Exorcism” is one of the scariest movies to come along in a long time — until the last five minutes or so, when it completely falls apart.
Really, that's about how quickly it all collapses. Director Daniel Stamm's faux documentary starts out with deadpan delivery and a dry sense of humor, then it turns riveting, then truly frightening, then just plain silly. It's like it morphs from being a Christopher Guest movie to “The Blair Witch Project” — as if writers Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland didn't know where to go, so they went over the top.
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