Film Review - "The rite" ( horror movie )

Film Review - "The rite" ( horror movie )

Title:

The rite

Director:

Mikael Håfström (Swedish)

Cast:

• Colin O'Donoghue as Michael Kovak
• Anthony Hopkins as Father Lucas
• Alice Braga as Angelina Vargas
• Marta Gastini as Rosaria
• Rutger Hauer as Istvan Kovak
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Aunt Andria
• Ciarán Hinds as Father Xavier
• Toby Jones as Father Matthew
• Chris Marquette as Eddie
• Marija Karan as Sandra
• Torrey DeVitto as Nina

Where/when it's set:

U.S.A, Rome (nowadays)

Brief summary of the plot:

Michael Kovak works with his traumatized, father who is a mortuary but then he decides to enter a seminary school and he earns a scholarship. He studies for 4 years but when he's going to graduate he writes a resignation e-mail to his superior. Some days later a girl is runned over by a car in front of him and she asks Michael for her absolution, Michael does the prayers without nerve, while his superior observes the situation speechless. His superior make a desicion based in that event, he choose Michael for a hard work : he choose him to be an exorcist. That's how we are introduced by Michael sceptical eyes in the world of the demons.

Positive points:

Another movie about an exorcism but much more real and believable than his predecessors. Remarcable job of the actors. Good esthetic. Very scary moments.

Best scene: an hallucination of Michael in wich he saw a mule with red eyes, very disturbing !

Who it would appeal to:

People who enjoy horror movies and want to have some others frame to add to their nightmares.

Personal comments: it's a good movie that adds new expresions of evil to our repertory, new ways to show the

misterious events that surround an evil posesion, interesting characters to people that are sceptical and

to believers too. The "hop" is assured in any moment of the movie. ( expect it )

Jorge Hernán Pérez Puerta