Newest &#39;Exorcist&#39; riddled with problems
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In theaters: THE EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, directed by Renny Harlin, written by Alexi Hawley, 114 minutes, rated R. So it wasn&#39;t meant to be, but here it is and there you have it.
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HHH -- Running neck and neck with &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11&quot; as the year&#39;s most controversial film, director Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot; is the cinematic equivalent of a Rorschach inkblot: You will probably see in it
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The new betrayal-based thriller is intriguing, but flawed.
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God help them. Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek, that is. They&#39;re the studio and the producers releasing Exorcist: The Beginning today.
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&quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; arrives in theaters today without any advance screenings for critics. That usually means the studio hopes for a big opening weekend before word gets out about how bad the film is.
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The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
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Just when it seems as if Indecision 2004 could not get more serpentine, surreal or saddled with conspiracy theories, some monstrosity, like a fanged beast from an old black-and-white movie, jumps out.
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"Exorcist: The Beginning," a film that had to be re-shot with a new director because the first version was not scary enough, led the North American box office over the weekend, as moviegoers once again flocked to the resurrection of an aging franchise.
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The question at this point is whether ``The Phantom of the Opera&#39;&#39; is even intended to be frightening. The tale has become such a product of modern popular art that its original inspiration, ``the
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A critic&#39;s reaction to a  film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men  who all touch an elephant and report wildly different  descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the  particular body part encountered.
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The long-awaited prequel to horror film classic The Exorcist has finally been released in the US after being &quot;cursed&quot; by cast and crew changes and accidents.
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The demon thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning" opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing "Alien vs. Predator," which tumbled to No. 4 with $12.5 million, studio estimates showed.
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The demon thriller &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing &quot;Alien vs.
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The backstory of "Exorcist: The Beginning" is enough to make your head spin. Hollywood is fond of remakes, but this prequel &#151; the fourth in the series of "Exorcist" films &#151; was discarded and remade before it was even released.
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The Exorcist film prequel is released in the US after being "cursed" by cast and crew changes and accidents.
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Director Renny Harlin's The Exorcist: The Beginning opened   Friday to hellish buzz and several hellish reviews.
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It has been ridiculed by critics and shunned by cinema-goers but the latest film from the controversial director Oliver Stone has still managed to raise hackles across the US.