Comparing it to "The Exorcist" is a bit of a stretch!

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2018)

In all honesty, I was hoping that the good reviews on this one would actually do the horror genre justice. However, I got disappointed. It seems incredibly difficult to get an horror movie to actually make you lose one or two nights of sleep nowadays.
The movie could have been better in many ways, I suppose. I mean, the acting is overall good. First of all, it takes a long time for something interesting to actually happen (you almost fall asleep during the first half) and by the time it gets to the part where things start happening, you end up getting disappointed because it's just one or two scenes... One good thing about it is that it doesn't have those predictable jumpscares but stil...
After watching the trailer (and later the movie) and noticing that they were calling this movie the next Exorcist, I wonder where in the world they saw the similarities. Apart from the demons possessing people, that is... Don't get me wrong but the Exorcist is, for me, the best horror movie of all time. It made me not wanting to sleep and to this day, it is the one I am most afraid of. Hereditary only made me yawn out of boredom except for a couple of minutes...