The Last Exorcism

This movie, The Last Exorcism is about a Reverend, Cotton Marcus who lives in a major city in the state of Louisiana with his wife and disabled son. Cotton is used to performing many exorcisms on possessed people but his faith faded about learning that a autistic child has been killed during a exorcism. Cotton himself has a disabled son so this brought great anxiety for him. This leads to Cotton deciding that he will make a documentary about exorcisms and how its fraud. He wants to raise awareness that this is giving yourself up for science and not for Jesus Christ. When this starts he chooses a random family that claims they have a possessed daughter, and he sets up cameras and microphones around the room for the documentary. That night the daughter that Cotton supposively cured appeared in his bedroom, and to prove that she was not possessed, Cotton took her to the local hospital for testing, and the doctor said she in perfect physical condition. Cotton takes the girl home and that night there was many disturbances in the house such as the girl clawing her brother in the face and drowning a bloody cat in the bathtub. When Cotton and his crew are asleep, Nelly, the possessed girl goes into their room and steals their recording camera. She takes it into a different room and beats a cat to death. When she gets back to Cottons room she tries to bash the camera on his head too to kill him but his crew stops her. Nell's family soon gets a call from the local hospital that she was tested and they have news that Nell is pregnant. This is a huge shock for everyone, when they ask her who she had sex with she responds, "the devil inside me". Nell's family insists that Cotton and his crew leave and as they are leaving, Nell attacks them and that’s when Cotton decides to perform another exorcism. They all go back into the Room where she killed the cat and she claims that the demon is going into her and she bends backwards and openly breaks three of her fingers. After a lot of discussion with the group Nell confesses to have had sex with a boy in school, and she was doing all this crazy stuff to get everybody's minds off the pregnancy. When the crew is leaving they stop by a coffee shop where the boy Nell claims to have had sex with works, and they ask him about Nell and he tells them that he is gay and never had sex with her. After that they return to the family's house to sort out their confusion, when they arrive no one is in the house so they walk behind the house where they find the family around a fire with a crucifixion cross and Nell giving birth to what is not a human, but some sort of demon baby. She then throws it into the fire, and then they get attacked and their camera falls to the ground and keeps recording what is happening. That is the end of the movie and I believe this movie is one of the most bone chilling movies you can watch because it really is a tough movie to figure out, you have to pay attention the whole time, but that isn’t a problem because this movie will have your adrenaline running. Overall I think this movie was very successful meaning that they conveyed exorcisms, possessions, and demons very well. If you haven’t seen this movie I strongly suggest you do.