L'exorcisme D'Anna Ecklund

Was drawn into seeing 'The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund', with a cool poster/cover, a somewhat intriguing if very derivative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive.

It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. 'The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund' is really quite abominable, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anything with any potential it had. There is nothing good here in 'The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund', just amateur hour all round.

Going on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it comes over as vague and under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused.

The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), the effects are shoddy and all of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous. Lee Bane is at his hammiest and it is not fun to watch. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too.

Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, never recovering that interest is lost fast. The ending has no build-up and just ends ridiculously. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, a lot of dumb and vague moments and explanations and the lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in the drama, which tended to be indifferently acted, interminably paced and statically directed.

A lot of 'The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. It all feels rather tame while the threat completely lacks menace and looks terrible.

Nothing freaky or interesting, no development and too derivative, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating with what the film was trying to do and the drama is overwrought with no momentum and a lot of weirdness. The direction is barely there and disorganised and the music is ill-fitting. 'The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund' is very amateurish visually, too drearily lit and shows no care in the way it's shot. The editing has more continuity errors than one can count.

Altogether, irredeemably terrible. 1/10 Bethany Cox

In terms of image quality with good capture angles, the film was average compared to the others of its same generation of resources. However, his idea of proposing an exorcist horror brought us a very weak script with little creativity in his construction of scenes and elements. Left something to be desired.

Running away from a frame-by-frame analysis, the delivery of suspense they brought gave me an interpretive tasting with a very cliché flavor. Films that want to work in this type of genre demand a lot of dedication on the part of the construction of the script, as well as the visual. We perceive a usual terror of possession style "The Exorcist" of the 70's without taking anything away. If it's to be spent on a production whose final product is an allusion to a work from 50 years ago, it's money wasted. Surely they could have "given blood" to deliver an innovative terror in the field of horror!

The character's opening scene is very long and annoying. This has already derailed any sense of positive criticism of the film. Maybe if they had shortened that scene the movie would have been rated better, even though it was pretty weak. A lesson for producers and directors never to repeat such a gross mistake.

I believe the intention was to leave viewers agonized by the demonic interpretation of the lectern. But it was a shot in the foot.

The acting of the actors in general is weak, the script also does not contribute much to an interesting end. I was almost exorbited with so much anger from this movie, but in the end I survived.

Anna is not screaming because she is possessed by a demon , she screams in agony how bad this actually is - same story as usual but perhaps more boring , bad acting , and very stupid - it feels like a bunch of kids hade made this.

7 minuts of screaming in slow motion.

Why..... and i thought that was the worst part.. But then... they started acting.. and its the same as every other exorcism movie - but "anna" acts like a dramatic preteen with casting her body around in bed..

i would rather pull my own skin off that watching this movie again, +