Como se dice, “What the hell?”The priest, whose beard is mysteriously much whiter than his hair, is sent to the abbey by the pope — “Charlie’s Angels” style.
The building was recently inherited by Julia (Alex Essoe) after the car-accident-impalement death of her husband. She’s there to fix the place up and sell it to support her two angsty kids, Amy (Laurel Marsden) and Henry (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, born to play a possessed teen in Europe).
Why was an average, middle-class American woman’s husband bequeathed an ancient Spanish castle? The less you ask, the better “The Pope’s Exorcist” is.Since moving in, Henry has become apparently overtaken by a dangerous otherworldly force.
Having refused to speak for a year, he suddenly sounds like a foul-mouthed Tom Hardy and keeps scratching his face and screaming, “You are all going to die!”So Amorth and a younger, slightly flirty priest, Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto), get to work and say prayers while more and more people growl and are flung around the room.If you think this is when the film becomes serious, think again!
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