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Rating: 10/10 (21 September 2018)

I am not at all a horror film person, so I found it very odd that Holy Spirit seem to kept saying that this one was for me.
I would caution that practicing an active life of faith, especially in the name of Jesus Christ, would likely make this movie more appealing; however, it isn't necessary to hold any particular beliefs to still enjoy the film.
Those who have come to rely on the sensationalism of Hollywood--blood and gore and overly graphic language--to inform them of how they should feel during a story might find the action sequences of this movie too few and far between the dialogue sequences, which is mostly prayer language and ominous music.
I'm only half-joking when I say that captions translating the spoken language from Puritan English into contemporary English would be helpful for many.
More importantly, I apologize, but I need to get on my soapbox for a second:
What I love most about this movie is the understated way that it portrays the effects of witchcraft. Yes there are some graphic scenes and some horrifically creepy s***. But, you don't see any angels or demons flying around. And where, in a movie like Harry Potter, a curse would appear as a viscous jet of fiery plasma/lightning, all you see here is writhing on the floor in agony, crying out to God, with no visible clue as to what's going on. Guys, that's exactly how witchcraft works in the real world. No matter what you've been told about God and Jesus and the Bible, whether you've ever given a thought to spiritual warfare or not, it's all real. But almost none of it looks like something that most of us would want to pay good money to go see at the movies. I don't remember who said "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist," but it's true.
Fortunately, unlike the special effects, Dumbledore uttered some words that were very true: "words are our most inexhaustible form of magic."
The Apostle Paul puts it a little differently, "for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds. We demolish debates and any high-minded thing that would exalt itself above knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in obedience to Christ" - 2 Corinthians 10:4-5