Offensive &#39;Exorcist&#39; prequel fails to scare up anything worthwhile
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Horror movies have a right to be tacky. Good taste really shouldn&#39;t cross anybody&#39;s mind while determining the swift arc of an ax or a cool trajectory for blood to spray. But if you&#39;re looking for ...
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The much maligned Exorcist: The Beginning opened at the top with a not-so-disastrous $18.1 million. The film was shot twice. The first version by Paul Schrader was discarded because the producers disliked it.
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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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This horror film, spun off from an old Atari video game, is so inept on every level you wonder why the distributor didn't toss it directly into the trash.
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Flaming skulls, cheesy acting, satanic motorcycles -- what's not to like? In Table of Malcontents.
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LOS ANGELES - The backstory of Exorcist: The Beginning is enough to make your head spin. Hollywood is fond of remakes, but this prequel  the fourth in the series of Exorcist films  was discarded and remade before it was even released.
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Moviegoers put a nail in the coffin of a dying horror boom this weekend, as âHostel: Part IIâ opened far behind the crime caper âOceanâs Thirteen.â
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The film is a family entertainer, and steers clear of sex and violence. But somehow, it also guarantees that many of the main characters in the film act incredibly stupid.
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Takashi Shimizu&#39;s remake of his own movie, &quot;The Grudge,&quot; is a pee-your-pants scary movie starring creaky old Japanese homes with sliding see-through panels.
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Poor Renny Harlin. When the director&#39;s name appeared on the screen at the end of Exorcist: The Beginning, the friend we dragged along to see this dog&#39;s breakfast exclaimed, &quot;That explains everything.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -The horror film &quot;Exorcist: the Beginning&quot; beat &quot;Alien vs. Predator&quot; to take the top spot at the weekend movie box office.
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The nominal thriller "White Noise" is worthy neither of Michael Keaton's talents nor even a desperate horror fan's attention.
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We&#39;ve pretty much seen it all - to the point that nothing really bothers or frightens most viewers these days. And ever since Sept. 11, 2001, the idea of being scared by a movie seems trivial and silly.
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Exorcist: The Beginning debuted at the top of the box office with an estimated US$18.2mil. The Warner Bros. production, which was almost entirely reshot by director Renny Harlin costs about US$20mil to make, Coming Soon!
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&quot;The theater? They&#39;ll just  take some stinkeroo movie ... throw it on a stage, and call it  a show.&quot;
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Maybe script rewrites aren&#39;t such a bad omen after all. Despite a story overhaul and having been almost entirely reshot, Exorcist: The Beginning surprised analysts by taking the top spot at theaters over the weekend.
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There are no jokes, there are no laughs, even the toilet humour stinks and there's barely even a plot. The movie doesn't just rehash every overused, college comedy clichÃ© it takes them and demotes the nonsense to new levels of absurdity.