On the face of it, “The Pope’s Exorcist” would have you believe that it’s rooted in the real-life experiences of the late Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic priest who ser…
” would have you believe that it’s rooted in the real-life experiences of the late Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic priest who served for 30 years as the head exorcist of the Diocese of Rome.
The film’s devout faith in that formula largely protects it from significant scares or surprises, as a thin, by-the-numbers script from Michael Petroni and Evan Spiliotopoulos adheres to expectations even before its characters set foot in the most plainly spooked Catholic abbey you ever did see.
One look at Henry’s harrowed, fawn-eyed visage and you know he’s a sitting duck for any stray malevolent spirits seeking a soul to feed on — and there can be no shortage of those in this murky, rubble-strewn Gothic playground, splendidly imagined by production designer Alan Gilmore, in which Julia sets up house with all the breezy naïveté of one who’s never seen a horror film before.
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