Loud and Queer

The Last Exorcism

August 30th, 2010 by Dick

I am a big fan of horror movies.

One of my first boyfriends was the clerk at a small video/DVD rental place back in my hometown. He had dreams of being a movie director, specifically horror movies. We watched every good, bad and ugly horror movie ever made. From Dawn of the Dead to Maniac Cop. I’ve seen them all. I guess he hooked me on them for life.

Wow! You are flexible!

This weekend, I went with my current trick boyfriend soulmate life-partner paramour and I went to see the hot new screamfest: The Last Exorcism. I got in thanks to being a member of the “press’…Seriously! Someone from LionsGate thinks I am press! Free tickets, so who am I to complain!

The movie started out super-spooky, when a a message from director Eli Roth was shown. In his message, Roth pleaded with the audience to take to their Twitter accounts and spread the word. So while I don’t tweet or twat, I figured – I’ll tell all my GayLive Network friends all about it!

Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian, remember him from Saved by the Bell: The College Years) is a preacher man who has become a sad and jaded fraud. He’s spent most of his life using religion to flim-flam people – usually performing exorcisms on people who really needed psychiatric care. In an attempt at redemption, he invites a documentary crew to follow him to his final exorcism. But when they get to the hick-tastic Sweetzer farm, imagine their delight in finding a big old Linda Blair style mess on their hands.
I found the movie pretty damn scary. Demonic possession is not something I take lightly. Nor is an ingenue (Ashley Bell) impregnated by the Devil – that really shakes the shit out of me. Still, the movie is NO Paranormal Activity (have you seen the trailer for the sequel?) or Blair Witch Project, but it is damn scary enough to keep you in your seat and snuggled up to your boyfriend. The ending, which you can catch HERE, is the real doozy – with the filmmakers throwing everything at you in those last 15 minutes. I recommend it, and also suggest that you get a hunky date for it. You want to have someone to snuggle with during those bloody bits.

Also, they even throw in a kinda-cute gay charachter! Spoiler Warning: The gay doesn’t die. Thank God.