Critic’s Head-Spinning Review of New ‘Exorcist’ Horror Film: Too ‘Faith Based’, ‘Hyper-Conservative’

A film critic decided to rip the new “Exorcist” film for being “hyper-conservative” and too “faith-based.”

Writing for the 🎬Entertainment site IndieWire, David Ehrlich’s umbrage with “The Exorcist: Believer” began within the first sentences.

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing me that a 2023 legacy sequel to ‘The Exorcist’ might actually make good on its potential,” Ehrlich began.

A sequel to the classic 1973 film, it follows two girls as they make plans to go to the woods with hopes of contacting the dead mother of one of the girls. The two are found three days later and miles from their home — but are now possessed by a demon.

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Ehrlich proceeded to claim in his review that we are “living in a time of right-wing hysteria” and the horror subgenre of demonic possession naturally “reaffirms Christian dogma.”

He added it “is therefore granted special permission to push the boundaries of what the church-going public is willing to bear.”

“‘The Exorcist’ is ultimately as ‘faith-based’ as any of the movies you might see advertised on Fox News today,” Ehrlich claimed.