Naw. I don't like it.

Rating: 1/10 (6 August 2003)

There's basically two premises at work in this movie:
1) Satan is alive and well: suck on that, you 'sophisticated' yuppies; cower in fear, lapsed Catholics; know that your worst fears are confirmed, Southern Baptists. And for no obvious reason, he might just possess your daughter! Yes, _your_ daughter, you skeptic in the back. Scary, eh?
2) Nothing- no, nothing at all- is more utterly disturbing that seeing a young girl commit various acts of blasphemy, unless its perhaps seeing her exercise some of her bodily functions. Satan's special effects team can even make your daughter look like her head's spinning around! Scary, eh?
Personally, I'm not buying what they're selling. The movie's extremely well-made, especially for a horror flick, but at the very bottom of things, it's about as unsophisticated as they come. Satan's a bit of an idiot in this one, or at least he's not given much of a character beyond taunting the protagonists (i.e., the audience- yes, YOU- by proxy). Its main point of interest, to me anyway, is the cultural phenomenon surrounding it. More interesting horror movies have been made, but this one seems to push the right buttons for many.