Review – The Exorcism

 When did horror movies turn so damn mopey? Probably around the same time a casting call for “corpulent and dull” got the attention of Russel Crowe’s agent. This is a fictionalized “making of” adaptation of The Exorcist, with scary replaced by strange. For example, the protagonist horrifies his long-suffering 16-year-old daughter (played by 25-year-old Ryan Simpkins) by pulling a Verne Troyer in the lobby of their apartment building. Is he possessed by a demon? Has he fallen off the wagon? Is he gripped by PTSD from being molested by a priest as a child? After an hour and a half of this, I honestly didn’t care. See if desperate