Is he really possessed or is he just a freckle-faced fuck? This feels closer to the Scary Movie 2 parody than the real Exorcist. Beyond the story being dumb as fuck with the weirdest, most vaudevillian characters, the most obvious ADR, and the ridiculous script that seemed to be mostly focused on humor, the movie making itself raises a lot of questions. There were many times where they introduce the score into the scene to match the theme of whatever goofy shit the demon is doing and it's unclear if it's the demon doing it in the world of the movie or if the movie is doing it for comedic purposes. Really, like am I supposed to be laughing at the demon fucking with the priest? It's also always very unclear if it's the demon or the kid talking. Sometimes it feels like the audience is supposed to be questioning whether the kid is actually possessed or just a piece of shit, because sometimes what he says is beyond an 11 year old, but most of the time it's like he learned his first bad word (fuck) and just spams it for 90 minutes. In The Exorcist, it was a powerful demon swinging his dick around, but in Possessed, it's like the kid is possessed by Freddy Kruger, cracking jokes and having a grand old time. This movie is constantly fighting against itself raging between genres. Then we have all the extraneous stuff in the background that the movie clearly thinks is important, but doesn't really do anything other than give us a time period for the movie that we already knew. Why do we keep giving so much time to the Red Scare? Why do we spend so much time on the parents if we're just going to abandon those characters in an hour? This movie is messy as fuck, to the point that I don't know if the acting is awful or if it's a stylistic choice. Possessed is The Exorcist if we made the main character the demon and made it a stand-up comedian. Really, anything the movie seems to do right has a strong probability of being inadvertent.
Is he really possessed or is he just a freckle-faced fuck? This feels closer to the Scary Movie 2 parody than the real Exorcist. Beyond the story being dumb as fuck with the weirdest, most vaudevillian characters, the most obvious ADR, and the ridiculous script that seemed to be mostly focused on humor, the movie making itself raises a lot of questions. There were many times where they introduce the score into the scene to match the theme of whatever goofy shit the demon is doing and it's unclear if it's the demon doing it in the world of the movie or if the movie is doing it for comedic purposes. Really, like am I supposed to be laughing at the demon fucking with the priest? It's also always very unclear if it's the demon or the kid talking. Sometimes it feels like the audience is supposed to be questioning whether the kid is actually possessed or just a piece of shit, because sometimes what he says is beyond an 11 year old, but most of the time it's like he learned his first bad word (fuck) and just spams it for 90 minutes. In The Exorcist, it was a powerful demon swinging his dick around, but in Possessed, it's like the kid is possessed by Freddy Kruger, cracking jokes and having a grand old time. This movie is constantly fighting against itself raging between genres. Then we have all the extraneous stuff in the background that the movie clearly thinks is important, but doesn't really do anything other than give us a time period for the movie that we already knew. Why do we keep giving so much time to the Red Scare? Why do we spend so much time on the parents if we're just going to abandon those characters in an hour? This movie is messy as fuck, to the point that I don't know if the acting is awful or if it's a stylistic choice. Possessed is The Exorcist if we made the main character the demon and made it a stand-up comedian. Really, anything the movie seems to do right has a strong probability of being inadvertent.
