Adam, did you just heart❤ your own comment? Interesting power play 😏

Bro it's not showing up in my country (India). I had to use VPN and manually search on yt, because I thought of watching it later.

@@armyhammerI, too, have recently moved to another country to watch this.

Thanks for keeping it uploaded even though those assholes are trying to stop you!

NBC must stand for "Not Bery Cool"

Hell, BOTH did. Merrin didnt toss himself out a window but he did go in knowing he probably wasnt coming out alive

SATIRE typical men

Gotta get those Modern Day™ talking points in!

It's also, like, the Catholic Church. They believe it's a religious tenet from God that they remain a Patriarchy and have for 2000 years. Their leader is literally named Papa in Italian.

She complains about the patriarchy, goes in herself, and then gets her eyes stabbed out. And I don't mean that as an insult to women, but rather to point out she criticizes people who risked their own lives (and died) to protect her. It's faux feminism. The reason the mother didn't enter the room during the exorcism is because she wasn't an exorcist. It's the same reason she doesn't enter the procedure rooms when her daughter is being treated in hospitals; the doctors and nurses do. This type of bad criticism helps the patriarchy by making its decriers look unreasonable.

Lmfao.

@@lacriaturadekentucky Wait I mean Da Exorcist: Let’s get it Started

THEN I SAW HER FACE

​@@im4ft622now I'M A BELIEVER!

I BELIEVE I BELIEVE I BELIEVE I BELIEVE I BELIEVE I BELIEVE

Pfft, every PROPER scientist knows you can suck out a demon by reversing the polarity of the particle flow throught he gate! (How do you do that?) WE CROSS THE STREAMS!!!

Hey, c'mon now... they went from zero to possessed in .25 seconds - a new world record! These people should get the credit they deserve.

What did you think of 3?

People act like 2 doesn't exist when talking about believer.

I wish the movie would have stayed in Africa, at least there could have been some cool voodoo witch doctor shit. This was just boring as hell.

@@jollygrapefruit786So you want part 2 again

Needed another neurotic Catholic writer and jewish director combo.

That was part of what made it interesting and frightening, so of course they changed it for this.

May be a great idea, even more with a monotheist family possessed by a demon from any other religion. May be very mentally challenging : "All my life is a lie", "Who tf did I worship ?", cognitive dissonnance, etc. This conflict isnt so strong with a "same religion demon" (they aren't wrong about God / the meaning of life) neither with a polytheist family ("there are many gods so I may just not know this one")

And it wasn't even the Christian devil - it was Pazuzu!

That's a good point, I totally forgot that. The original is about an atheist soliciting a Catholic priest to exorcise a pagan demon. It already kind of is a wrong religion story.

I just don't believe her character would trash the priests that saved her daughter's life like that with the patriarchy shit. She saw what went down, she saw how dangerous it was, saw what happened to Merrin and Kerras. I have no idea why they even wrote that crap into the sequel.

​@@dennett316 Probably because they haven't seen the original movie. Or they don't care as "meta" political commentary is all the rage these days.

The mother easily could have died in the notorious "cross" scene as she was barricaded in her possessed daughter's bedroom. But Pazuzu chosen to spare her.

@@dennett316 absolutely agree 💯 I loved their dynamic in the book. The way that Chris is not religious at all in the beginning is a really great character choice.

@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 yes! Torturing her & making everyone in the house suffer is so terrifying. During the exorcism though, I imagine Pazuzu would have pulled out all the stops to prevent them from succeeding.

my guy D: every time i'm in am empty theater i expect a serial killer. and i except a mass killer in the full ones.

​@@ollievendor7413If I was in an empty theater playing Exorcist: Believer, I would wish for a serial killer to show up about a third of the runtime through.

It was not simply not scary, it was also stupid.

My child, that empty theatre is a sign of Hope.

It just doesn't happen in real life. This movie might be bad but his ideas were also stupid.

This buy bitches in half the comments about Blatty being right wing. Take the bitching with a grain of coarse salt.

The ending doesn't exactly contradict that tho. Girl is punished for her dad's selfishness. He essentially choose to end one girl's life over his daughter's. Not saying most people wouldn't but he didn't have faith the ritual or whatever would work so he and his kid were punished for his lack of faith

​@@neonbarnowlWow that is fair to his daughter. Because the dad is selfish she burns in hell! Fair trade!

@HonsHon Eh, I didn't say it was. But I don't think it's off base. It's not like the religion itself doesn't preach taking the sins of your father. Supposedly, we're all doomed cuz a chick ate a fruit one time

Not to mention Believer was directed by a comedy director. While there are examples of Comedy director doing good as horror directors, DDG ain’t one of them. He takes a J.J. Abrams approach where he’ll take other people’s ideas and tweak them ever so slightly to pass them off as his own. His Halloween trilogy had a decent start, but then he tried taking it into a “new” direction with a story and themes that he thinks is smart and deep. But once you deconstruct those stories and themes, they’re extremely hollow and have been done before and handled much better by other movies, especially in the horror genre.

​@@Butwhythough881"The Cult of Michael Myers" starring Paul Rudd was better than the entire new trilogy combined imo. And that didn't even make sense, it turned Michael into a supernatural deity who will chase a baby using his psychic baby tracking skills because a doctor drew a rune on their belly. But Paul Rudd's character was great and that's more than I can say for the new trilogy.

Kinda like how Lion King 2019 over use music to compensate for the lack of emotion in the CGI animals.

Believer reminds me more of that shtty Slenderman movie with Joey King rather than the classic Exorcist.

Blatty was also a right wing nutter

@@sanai97Nobody’s perfect 🙂

​@@sanai97He said good triumphs over evil and is right wing and that pisses y'all off. Says more about you.

​@@ayaa.1351i doubt the issue is "good triumphs over evil" here lmao

⁠@@ayaa.1351I would assume they’re probably touchy because right wingers as of this moment are taking away people’s rights and trying to undo decades’ worth of progress. Don’t be daft

Oh dear lord no....so glad we don't have that version in our existence

Hm, maybe they should have hired him instead.

Thank God, suspiria remake slapped so hard

Omg I’m so glad David didn’t direct Suspiria lmao.

I appreciate the remake of suspiria for the simple fact that they fooled me into thinking one of tilda swinton’s characters was a real old man.

Talk To Me was one of the best horror flicks I've seen in ages

It's just executives and less talented filmmakers trying to copy The Exorcist without understanding why it worked in that film.

Im just flabbergasted that the writer at no point had the thought of "Maybe she wasnt in the room with the exorcists exorcising a dangerous demon from her daughter because she wasnt an exorcist"

Highly disrespectful of the two brave men that fought to the end to save her daughter.

And then her character gets her eyes gouged out lol. They took a sympathetic likeable character that she was in the original and turned her into someone arrogant and ungrateful. Like I find out very hard to believe her greatest perspective of the exorcism was “psshhhh men!”

Basically Hollywood writing characters to appeal to the woke generation on Twitter

@@maki0794 And failing utterly. There is no fucking patriarchy club that you can join, there are no "members of the patriarchy", it's a social construct. The writers were either impressively stupid or pathetically lazy.

That’s a great idea

the fact exorcisms were some weird unknown thing that the majority of the church doesnt even take seriously was already a thing in the Exorcist. If theres something an exorcist sequel should avoid at all costs its trying to do anything similar to the original cuz then its just "the same thing but way way way worse"

@@OlCrunchy True, I forgot that plot point. I just find the idea of a possessed girl screaming ancient curses in the middle of the church band's rendition of How Great is Our God very entertaining.

The Last Exorcism does that. The ending is meh but the film is awesome.

@@OlCrunchy Yeah, didn't the movie basically revive exorcisms?

Well of course, they scammed you out of your time ;)

So, you paid to watch it at first then stopped and went and pirated it? Huh?

Paying with your time is just as bad. Just don't bother.

@@user-fz8pw3ym7y No, I just tried to scrounge up some spare cash to go see it, didn't have any, so I just pirated it.

@@user-fz8pw3ym7yno they pirated it but still felt scammed after

All good things can't last forever. It all must come to an end eventually.

Mind you, Reagan could have died in her altercation in that infamous "cross scene" after Pazuzu mimics her recently dead friend's voice, telling her that her daughter committed his other worldly murder. The novel version is even more horrific and changed in the movie for obvious reasons.

By twisting his head completely around, while reenacting it. Before being thrown out in the stairs like Father Damien. Believer is a spit in the face to the 1973 classic.

Agreed! I also feel the slow pacing works so well because, much like most rational people, Reagan being possessed was the absolute last possibility the characters in the film would consider. It's slow but there's this constant build of tension and dread, all while the movie seamlessly transitions from medical horror, to psychological horror, to supernatural horror.

If only she were a man the priests would have let her in the room to potentially watch her child die or be killed herself. They only kept her out because sexism

She complains about the patriarchy, goes in herself, and then gets her eyes stabbed out. And I don't mean that as an insult to women, but rather to point out she criticizes people who risked their own lives (and died) to protect her. It's faux feminism. The reason the mother didn't enter the room during the exorcism is because she wasn't an exorcist. It's the same reason she doesn't enter the procedure rooms when her daughter is being treated in hospitals; the doctors and nurses do. This type of bad criticism helps the patriarchy by making its decriers look unreasonable.

@dirrdevil right?? The doctor/nurse example is spot on. I love my gf and I think she's the smartest person I know.. but I'll leave it to the doctor that went to school, studied, and succeeded at becoming a doctor to do the surgery

​@@dirrdevil I'm reaching real hard, but maybe it's a twisted way to support the patriarchy? Since men/war/soldiers dying while the women/feminists take advantage of scoff and roll their eyes?

That definitely was one of the scenes of all time.

@@WarlockX4 Yeah, didn't happen, you Moist Critical decomposed dead horse beaters, move on to something else and stop with that template

It's the least rewatchable of Raimi's movies for me. I think a lot of it is that ending, it's so bitter and cruel that it really took the wind out of my sails after enjoying the rest of the movie so much. Not to say that a totally happy ending would've been better for that movie, what we got matches with the tone. But I was definitely bummed out watching Justin Long cry, that's not quite the same as Bruce Campbell screaming "I SLEPT TOO LONG!" imo

​@@Ninjabread01 that movie bummed me out too

Actually, making the characters choose which girl dies is problematic in itself. It's literally the Joker's idea from The Dark Knight: the moral answer is refusing to make that choice. For a Biblical parallel, it's Solomon splitting the baby. Moral characters don't gamble with the lives of others.

@@dirrdevil to be fair the character making the parents choose the fate of the girls was literally Satan and the movie heavily implies that if none of the parents chose then both of them could have been saved. Not saying it's a good movie but I actually thought that part was pretty clever in a fucked up kinda way, dude dooms his own daughter to hell because he lets himself get tempted by the devil.

Her father was like a Trump supporter, so that makes it ok to Hollywood people.

@@VonDiesel3768 Good thing all their assembled world religions all getting together flubbed up the exorcism making the entire movie pointless, lol

​@@VonDiesel3768I think you're right. That's the false dichotomy of superficial politics that Hollywood pushes. They rightfully push back against conservatism but their liberalism defaults to being just as heinous.

@@BlazingOwnager seems like the only one that could've worked was the Catholic EXORCIST.

@@BlazingOwnager Right? Why include all that, when it makes absolutely no sense for the Exorcist, when it had absolutely no influence on the outcome.

Thank you for the recommendation, my friend.

Underrated comment

Time for you to go possess someone.

Christians can't take any W's in any modern IP. Even the IP's where the PREMISE of the movie is how Christianity takes a W from the devil. And what's more, if the exorcism worked in the first movie, because the power of Jesus is real, then any other religious or non-religious nonsense that does work on a demon, or an authentic Christian Exorcism that doesn't, says that in this movie universe Jesus WAS REAL, and in the span of a couple decades, Jesus just gave up on us 😂 and some other power has replaced it. Or if they tried what Adam said and put the exorcism into another religion, they'd have to do the whole "all the Gods exist and are powerful in the same ways" which sounds like fun to Agnostics and Athiests, but reaaaally doesn't make sense to anyone who is actually part of any Major Religion, where the lore does NOT allow for that much flexibility if you're paying attention. Even in Hinduism or other polytheisms. Most poly religions do not have room for Jesus for pretty obvious reasons lol. And again, this universe has already said that Jesus exists. They need to just keep going with that. And if he does, that means Christians are SUPPOSED to be the winners.

Christian but not Catholic (which is what I'm guessing the movie is?) It's just sad honestly. Even if you aren't a believer, the idea of hope and belief in good itself triumphing is something that is certainly needed in today's world. You don't have to believe in God to believe in good, positive messages of working together. Honestly, especially so considering the races of the characters and the current tensions we're seeing. I feel it's extra necessary to spread a message of togetherness in a dark situation. -though admittedly I am getting a little weary of the constant putting down of Christianity as a whole, since it's sorta everywhere-

William Peter Blatty’s writing >>>>>>David Gordon Green trying to be “deep”

​@@boobootittleman7299 Ain't that the gospel truth?

Clapping at any movie is a sign of brain rot, even a good one, let alone this garbage.

maybe clapping that it was over?

Oh thank god I thought stupid people clapping at movies was an American thing. I'm glad you guys have morons over there too.

I heard they tried to get Satan but he asked for too much money so they had to write around it

It’s Pazuzu. There’s a part where Ellen Burstyn is like “you again?” and Pazuzu is like “you guessed it!”

Honestly, it's better the less we know about the possession. It doesn't need a demon name. There should not be a character to the demon.

@@wildcatpeace that was never stated in the film and you know it. I refuse to believe that Pazuzu was in this film.

@@dirrdevil no, because there has to be a reason for the possession to have happened in the first place. No explanation and no reasoning is what led to this piece of shit film to exist in the first place! Besides, we had motivation for the demons in the better films, so that’s no excuse. It’s just lazy writing.

@@cthulhupthagn5771 you caught me. I LIED. I will punish myself accordingly

@@cthulhupthagn5771 After a lengthy campaign, I am finally ready to tell the truth. I did in fact laugh extremely hard in the last 35 seconds. HOWEVER, the substance that traversed the air and found its way onto my drawing was NOT coffee, but coffee-mixed spittle from my disgusting laughter. And I am now prepared to admit, in front of the ENTIRE nation, is that I misled the public in saying that the artwork was damaged. The truth is...I use a relatively heavy weight paper designed to take abuse from all kinds of media, including wet media. So the notion that my coffee spittle--or coffee for that matter--would have damaged the piece of art goes beyond the realm of reason. I only hope the public will accept this apology and allow me to to rejoin society after such a global embarrassment. My family has reaped the consequences of my crimes and will do so from this day forward. Just know I HEAR YOU.

Right? It was a good one, lemme tell ya.

I'm surprised they gave him freedom to advertise like that. It came off like he was mocking the sponsor. lol

EEYOOOOAAAAARRRRR

Your real name is Susan Hyde. You are a time-traveler from the future on an important mission. Your mind seems to have landed on the wrong body, with some memory confusion as the result. We cannot provide more details as of yet. Await further contact.

John titor El psg congroo

@@tomasroque3338 Safety was guaranteed, in this case.

I watched this the previous night in full, but then again, I am a space wizard

Copy right strike. There was a post about it yesterday.

Honestly the best part of those movies was the opening credits lol

The Exorcist, Alien and the Thing as your top 3? You my friend, are amazing.

@@WarlockX4 top three horror films

@@lulucalliope713 sure if that's what makes you happy

Halloween Kills sucks, Halloween Ends is pretty good, although it's a hodge-podge where the end of the film is drastically different to the first 2 acts but it was entertaining unlike Kills which was just "Evil dies tonight" for 90 minutes.

A dumb friend of mine who loves all generic bland horror films as long as they have an iconic brand attached to it convinced me to watch Halloween Kills with him, and it was one of the worst movies I had ever seen.

Very exhausting to watch though

Are you a mental health professional?

The phrase "dumpster juice" legitimately turned my stomach. Well-done lol

Put a comma after Adam. Makes the sentence's intent more clear.

That is a great point. It's either religious writers making up what they think about atheists or a self-own by atheist writers who have their own psychological problems. I am thinking the latter in this case: their inability to reconcile that fact about themselves makes them media illiterate and incapable of knowing what makes a good movie.

it would prolly be better to have the character become agnostic instead of atheist. You were raised in religion but now dont believe or disbelieve things regarding religion. That seems much more like an appropriate response to a tragedy that challenges your faith.

The Exorcist: Imma Believer I couldn’t heal her If I tried