The Exorcism (2024)
Directed by Joshua John Miller
Written by M.A Fortin, Joshua John Miller
Starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Chloe Bailey, David Hyde Pierce, Adam Goldberg
Release Date June 21st, 2024
Published June 20th, 2024
Russell Crowe is in a strange period of his career. The former leading man, heartthrob, and box office star, is now a sideshow act in the world of horror. I'm not saying it's a downgrade, but going from being an Academy Award nominee to starring in multiple movies centered around exorcists or or exorcism is certainly not what anyone would have predicted regarding a man who was once one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. Crowe's career was derailed by alcohol and bad behavior and now he finds himself in a genre famous for actors slumming it hoping for a hit and a comeback.
Just last year, Crowe starred in the odd, so bad it's good, exorcism horror flick, The Pope's Exorcist. That film was so successful that Crowe is making a sequel in 2025, marking the third exorcism-centric film in a period of three years. That's weird right? I'm not crazy, that's just a bizarre turn of events. For his second exorcism movie in two year, Crowe stars in The Exorcism in which he plays a down on his luck former leading man actor who takes a role in a horror movie where he plays a priest who is leading an exorcism of a possessed teenager. The meta is apparently coincidental but nonetheless inescapable.
Find my full length review at Horror.Media, linked here.
