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Sure, its production values are average, and Mark Neveldine’s camerawork is slick and appropriately pulsating, but the dire lack of compelling characters and a foundation built upon audience familiarity with this genre (instead of manifesting its own destiny) can’t salvage much at all. Which means this is poor, a poor poor film lacking a single reason to exist. Featuring some astonishingly terrible acting, particularly from the normally okay Dougray Scott, as well as nonsensical staging of the film’s “action” sequences, the film’s only virtue is its opening “documentary” sequence, and the closing credits. The Vatican Tapes, which contrasts the exorcist aspect of religious theology with modern-styled horror films and their jarring, edited-by-a-threshing-machine visceral topography, is another poor attempt at a much-mined genre loud and obnoxious, this film’s bludgeoning of its audience is approximately similar to the feeling of being sucked into a jet engine.Īfter a young woman, Angela Holmes (Olivia Taylor Dudley) begins to express increasingly erratic and strange behaviors, her father Roger (Dougray Scott) and boyfriend Pete (John Patrick Amedori), along with a priest, Fr Oscar Lozano (Michael Peña) and two Vatican exorcists (Djimon Hounsou and Peter Andersson), come to realize that she’s been taken over by an ancient satanic force.ĭirected by one half of the duo behind the Crank franchise (and the last of those godawful Ghost Rider movies), The Vatican Tapes is insipid, tiresome rubbish. Because The Exorcist was (and still is) considered one of the greatest scary films of all time, a byproduct of that success is that every other film to come since tends to be left trying to escape the shadows of Linda Blair’s possessed Regan – usually without success. Yeah, because nobody wants to mock the underworld mythology of Islam or Buhddism, Christianity’s spectral underworld once again forms the basis for a horror film out of Hollywood, replete with malevolent iconography and more jump-cut bafflement than you’d get in a dozen films of this ilk. Synopsis: A priest and two Vatican exorcists must do battle with an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman.Īpparently, the Vatican has the market cornered in supernatural spooky shit. Principal Cast : Kathleen Robinson, Michael Pena, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Peter Anderson, Bruno Gunn, Daniel Bernhardt.