The Last Exorcism (2010)

A documentary crew are filming Preacher Cotton Marcus, who  doesn't believe in demons or possession.  But he does like to help families find peace. So he is headed out to perform an exorcism which he claims will be his last.  He's never encountered a real possession in all his years of exorcisms and is tired of pretending.

He explains to the filmmakers what he is going to do, as well as the different ritualistic items that he will use to banish the non-existent spirit from the person who believes they are possessed.

When he arrives at the familys farmhouse, he reassures the father there is no need to worry and his daughter will soon be on the way to recovery.  But things don't go as planned and the daughter shows no improvement. In fact, Marcus sees things he's never seen before and starts wondering if his last performance is the first time he's seeing something real.

When the trailer for this film was running on tv, I thought it looked super spooky.  But the movie is heavy on dialogue and only creepy in a few scenes.  Now I don't mind lots of dialogue if it's well written, but in this case it isn't particularly compelling.

However I will say that I did not see the twist ending coming, so good job with that as I don't think the ending was ever implied. Heck, so many movies with twist endings broadcast it early or uses cliches so you see it coming a mile away. Not that I liked the ending, I just give it props for surprising me.

Now here's a good rule for living a long life -  if you see a satanic cult in the middle of nowhere at night  doing a ritual, get the hell out of there.  Don't check it out.

Also I found it amusing that the girl is drawing freaky pictures with people dying in a fire, getting  chopped up or beheaded, and the response is "they're only drawings."  Yes, but since she's also killing cows and horses, you should really take the drawings into consideration. Silly people.