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''The Last Exorcism'' is a 2010 American mockumentary horror film directed and edited by Daniel Stamm. It stars Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr and Louis Herthum.

''The Last Exorcism'' has received generally positive reviews from critics, but [[Critical Dissonance|polarizing reviews]] among general audiences.

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* [[Camera Abuse]]: Prime example: The possessed girl uses the camera to beat a cat to death while she's recording it.

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: {{spoiler|Louis, who had been portrayed as a crazy and superstitious person throughout the movie, turns out to be right about the whole thing being supernatural}}.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: {{spoiler|But it's not who you think...}}

* [[Jittercam]]: Not so bad as most.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]

* {{spoiler|[[Real After All]]}}: This is the polarizing factor for audiences.

* [[Red Herring]]: The ramblings of a local early in the film, combined with the mutilated cows shortly thereafter, subtly suggest that aliens might be at work. Whether or not that would've been scarier is open for debate, of course.

* {{spoiler|[[Religion of Evil]]: Revealed in the last few moments of the movie to be the culprit.}}

* [[Spotting the Thread]]: How Cotton realizes Nell {{spoiler|isn't genuinely possessed. A real demon would never use the phrase "blowing job" as a term for oral sex; a naive, home-schooled 16-year old, however, would.}}

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Cotton, who is a [[Hollywood Atheist]] and showman that comes to find evidence of genuine supernatural activity. Subverted in the last fifteen minutes of the film, when {{spoiler|he finds that he is not dealing with [[Demonic Possession]] (which is implied to have been at least partially psychosomatic), but a cult summoning something heavily implied to be the [[Satan|big bad himself]].}}

 

[[Category:Films of the 2010s]]

[[Category:Found Footage Films]]

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