Prime Video’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism Review

Want to watch a movie well-nigh a girl who plays with an Ouija workbench and inadvertently summons a demon into our world? No, we’re not talking well-nigh The Exorcist; it’s My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism, a horror-comedy that’s not scary or funny.

My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism is set in the 80s and follows weightier friends, Abby Rivers and Gretchen Lang. The two friends are upper school sophomores at Aberdeen Academy, a strict Catholic school, that they shepherd withal with their other friends, Margaret Chisolm and Glee Tanaka.

While deciding to spend one weekend up at Margaret’s family lake house, the girls make the strategic sleepover mistake of messing virtually with an Ouija workbench (because playing with Ouija boards unchangingly works out for people in horror movies).

While playing with the board, the girls manage to make contact with what they believe to be a spirit from the other side. Surpassing they can finish asking the entity what it wants, Margaret’s boyfriend, Wallace, crashes the party. He convinces the girls to take a hit of wounding and then go skinny dipping in the lake.

Eventually, wroth by Wallace, Abby and Gretchen go off wandering into the woods and they come wideness an x-rated house where it was rumored a girl was sacrificed in a satanic ritual.

They decide to go inside (they might as well; they haven’t made a single wise visualization this unshortened trip) and come wideness a creature inside the desolate cabin. While Abby is fortunate unbearable to make it out unscathed, Gretchen is not so lucky and finds herself stuff captured by an unseen force.  

After returning home from their trip, Gretchen begins to act unusual. What’s worse, she begins to be plagued by horrific visions. Soon, Gretchen begins to have violent outbursts and she tells of an entity that is slowly attempting to invade her soul and soul.

Initially reluctant to believe her friend’s story, Abby instead chooses to believe a much increasingly plausible subtitle for her friend’s sudden transpiration in demeanor. But she sooner has to squatter the very real possibility that something is not right with her friend, expressly without she begins to lash out and harm those closest to her.

Finally, convinced that something is seriously wrong with her friend, she contacts the Lemon Brothers, a brotherly trio of religious performers, and speaks to Christian, who informs Abby that he can see entities inside of people and that, while peekaboo Abby’s school, he saw something inside Gretchen.

She and Christian then devise a plan to perform an exorcism to miscarry the demon inside Gretchen surpassing it’s too late.

Can these two save Gretchen’s soul? Or is there plane anything left to save?

The mucosa is based on a typesetting of the same name, but we’re not going to squint at the source material and compare the differences between the typesetting and the film; instead, we’re going to squint at the mucosa as a separate entity.

Despite My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism being marketed as an exorcism film, the majority of the mucosa is increasingly well-nigh the harmful effects one person can have on flipside human being. In the specimen of My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism, the forfeiture is doled out by the unfortunate soul that has a demonic presence growing inside them.

Where a similar teenage possession mucosa like Jennifer’s Body is increasingly well-nigh the gore and soul count, My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism is increasingly well-nigh the slow twisting of the pocketknife into someone’s back. Rather than skiver them, the film’s oppugnant picks untied their insecurities and unwillingly shares their secrets with the world. While this might sound like a fate worse than death, it moreover unfortunately makes for a slower paced film.

The other issue is that the mucosa never leans into any specific genre. Instead, it skirts virtually variegated genres and fails to stay on anything for too long.

The film, which you would seem would swoop headfirst into the realm of horror, only dips its toe into this genre. At times throughout the film, you are treated to snippets of horror, including a scene involving a nocturnal visitor, a demonic tapeworm, and a demon from hell, but as quickly as they come, they vanish. My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism comes tropical to horror but never takes the leap.

The same could be said for the comedic elements of the film. My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism throws in some funny moments here and there, but it never embraces the wacky premise of the mucosa like its predecessor, Jennifer’s Body. The movie finally delivers the laughs in the third act with the performance delivered by Christopher Lowell as the overly zealous Christian. But this, too, is fleeting, as the mucosa once then withdraws from spectacle and resorts when to its somber tone.  

Instead of stuff a horror comedy, you get a mucosa that primarily focuses on angsty teens, leaving you to wonder who this mucosa is for.

Perhaps the biggest transgression is the film’s ending, where they prove that The Exorcist had it wrong when they attempted to have priests miscarry the demon. This movie proves you don’t need a bible or God. No, all you need is love to momentum out a demon.

While the trailer is set to Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now,” the largest song would have been “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis & The News considering the overall sense is that love conquers all.

If that wasn’t enough, the final showdown between good and evil involves our protagonists using fire as their primary weapon versus a demon because, apparently, fire kills demons. I guess Constantine had it wrong.

On a scale of 1-5 stars, I requite this movie 2.5 stars.

My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism is not a movie you need to see. If you’re a die-hard fan of the book, you might be compelled to watch it, but be warned, it will not live up to your expectations.

My Weightier Friend’s Exorcism is currently streaming exclusively on Prime Video.

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