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IMDb Ratinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320244/parentalguidelast updated: 2024-10-26Update data | |
Commonsensemedia Ratinghttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-last-exorcismlast updated: 2024-10-26Update data | |
| Message | Despite its subject matter, this isn't a very spiritual film -- but it does find some good things about human beings. A cynical minister who has lost his faith agrees to let a documentary crew film a fake exorcism to prove that demon possession doesn't really exist -- but when his ceremony fails to help the victim, he does stick around to continue to try to help her. |
| Role model | Cotton Marcus starts off a bit like a snake oil salesman; he's a minister who has been preaching his whole life but no longer believes in what he says. But when trouble plagues the fake exorcism he sets up for filmmakers to record, he keeps risking his life to try to help the victim. By the end of the film, he comes across as quite heroic and perhaps may have even regained his faith. |
| Violence | A teenage boy's face is slashed off screen; viewers see lots of blood. In one scene, Nell borrows the camera and takes it out to the barn, where she proceeds to slaughter a cat; the footage is shaky and not much is visible, but it's still a gruesome scene. There's lots of scary imagery, ranging from violent drawing, to Nell suddenly rushing at the camera. In another scene, she twists her neck and back in unholy directions. She also breaks her own fingers while possessed. Some characters are beaten to death -- the footage isn't entirely clear, but it's very suggestive. The subject of rape is addressed. |
| Sex | It's revealed that the teenage Nell is pregnant (it's suggested that the baby is her father's, but later a teenage boy is blamed for the deed). |
| Language | "Jesus Christ" is used as an exclamation. Other language includes "damn." |
| Drugs | Nell's father is said to be a drunk, though viewers never see any evidence of this. |
Dove Ratinghttps://dove.org/review/8527-the-last-exorcism/ | |
| Faith | None |
| Sex | . A girl is pregnant. |
| Language | Hell as a place several times; God and Jesus used properly many times however there were two inappropriate uses of the name of Jesus; J-1; JC-1; D-1; B-1 |
| Violence | Many scary images; girl bludgeons a cat to death; girl cuts boy's face with knife. |
| Drugs | Girl prescribed medication but cannot take because she is pregnant. |
| Nudity | Teen-aged girl undresses but we only see her bare back. |
| Other | Bloody demonic symbols on the walls; demonic ritual involving the bloody birth of a creature. |
