Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes

The Exorcist Tapes is the third movie in the very loose Paranormal Entity/Investigations franchise and is made by infamous production company The Asylum (Who I'm sure I don't need to introduce).

It tells the true story of Anneliese Michel and the case of her supposed exorcism and the two warring factions who tried to decide her fate. The doctors who wanted her to go to a hospital and seek medical treatment and the parents/priests who deemed her possessed and demanded she be subject to an exorcism.

The movie plays out as if it's real footage of the event which I find a tad exploitative and in bad taste considering the true story, what happened and the fate that Anneliese was finally dealt.

In true Paranormal Entity and Asylum tradition the movie looks ugly, has no budget behind it, has a mediocre cast and people behind the camera who must have just graduated amateur film school.

If you want to know the story of Ms.Michel then google it, maybe watch the documentary but leave this nonsense in the cold where it belongs.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Rather bad taste pretending it's real footage based on what actually happened

Everything is just so poor

What an awful movie. While it is not completely irredeemable, Nicki Muller tries her best and is decent, on every other level it doesn't work at all. It looks very cheap visually, with very substandard at best effects, annoying camera work, clumsily incorporated footage(which is what a vast majority of the movie felt like, and a colour scheme in the lighting that makes the movie feel drab and atmosphere-less. The characters are stock, you learn nothing about them and you don't care at all for them as a result, while the writing is embarrassingly trite and you have to look very closely to notice if there is a story at all, there probably was one but was so thin and dull that it is not worth your time. The acting apart from Muller, who deserved so much better, is next to non-existent. On the whole, I shudder even thinking of the badness of Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes. Perhaps not among The Asylum's worst like Alien Origin, Titanic II, 2010: Moby Dick, Transmorphers and AVH: Alien Hunter, but down there as one of their numerous awful movies. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I simply could not get into this movie.. it was horrible.

The topic of the movie seamed very promising but that's where the excitement ends with this title. Dull acting, one dimensional characters, boring scenes, and recycled material from other movies make this film one of the worse possession / exorcism films that I have ever seen.

Trying to get through the first half of this movie is a painful process I would not like to repeat/. I did not even have the curiosity to fast forward the movie to find out how it ended.

Reading other people's reviews here, make me realize I am not the only one that feels the same way. I also find interesting other people struggled to get to the half way mark of this movie.

I think the makers of the movie had a good idea but it was delivered poorly..

I never came across a DVD called Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes. But I do came across Paranormal Entity 3. And let that be the same flick. Pure commercially chosen that title but be advised. It had nothing to do with paranormal entities. It is in fact a pure possession flick. It was based on the story of Anneliese Michel.

Anneliese Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism. The case has been labelled as a misidentification of mental illness, negligence, abuse, and religious hysteria. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. Soon, she began hallucinating while praying. In 1973, she suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was "damned" and would "rot in hell". On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 68 pounds (30.91 kilograms). Three motion pictures, The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Requiem (2006), and the Asylum film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, are loosely based on Michel's story.

Horror buffs will have noticed one word, The Asylum. Again, Asylum films tried to pick in on the success of a blockbuster. sadly they failed. The flick has nothing to offer. The first second I laughed out loud already by seeing a so-called German. What a cliché that was. Not only that, they tried to let English actors to speak English with a German accent. It sounded like inspector Clouseau...Further we have a lot of priests just talking and stating in front of the camera about Anneliese. Anneliese herself didn't look possessed. She looked like a girl waking up with her eye make-up still on. Nobody really was convincing. What was interesting was the use of real audio footage of Anneliese but sadly they edited it 3 times into the flick.

A very annoying turkey, maybe if you watch it p*ssed and proud you do will have a laugh. The only thing that it had in common with the paranormal entity franchise was the nudity (boobs) in it. And they do distract you from the story. Maybe her juggs were possessed?

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 2/5

Another bad choice by me! I chose this one from the video store and hoped to see a good "exorcism" movie.

The blurb said it has real footage and that it wasn't doctored. Well within 3 milliseconds anyone could tell this was scripted and acted. And badly! I turned this off after 20 minutes and I so very rarely do that. Enough said.

Seems that after all of the recent exorcism movies that someone thought it'd be a good idea to put out another. They were wrong.

So, anyone who is thinking of hiring this stinker I can save them the time and let them know ....don't!