Archeologist Lankester Merrin is asked to go to East Africa to excavate a church that has been found completely buried in sand. Merrin is also an ordained Roman Catholic priest who, still haunted by what he was forced to do during World War II in his native Holland, eschews any religion or belief. He's fascinated by what he finds and that it dates hundred of years before Christianity was introduced to the area. Accompanied by a young priest, Father Francis, to keep an eye on ... (Full plot summary below)
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Archeologist Lankester Merrin is asked to go to East Africa to excavate a church that has been found completely buried in sand. Merrin is also an ordained Roman Catholic priest who, still haunted by what he was forced to do during World War II in his native Holland, eschews any religion or belief. He's fascinated by what he finds and that it dates hundred of years before Christianity was introduced to the area. Accompanied by a young priest, Father Francis, to keep an eye on the religious elements of what they find, Merrin makes his way to the camp. There he meets a young doctor, Sarah and soon realizes there is an air of gloom that envelops the entire site. Workmen go mad and a young boy is mauled by a pack of hyenas while completely ignoring his younger brother Joseph. Inside the church itself they find signs of desecration. Merrin is forced to re-examine his lack of faith and come face to face with the devil.
Leave your thoughts about Exorcist: The Beginning.
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis one is all hokum and not willing to dig deeper than into the familiar demonic bag of horror movie tricks. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid Keyes...an interesting little piece of entertainment: stylized, ambitious, and filled with scenes in which the element of creepiness seems genuine rather than synthetic. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Contrived, cliché, murky, muddled, and an utterly gory mess... |
| culturevulture.netPamela TroyA great waste of time, talent and resources |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderBy the time we get to the real exorcising, it's too late. We're bored with, and as, hell. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThe Beginning tries to be three films in one, but winds up lacking coherence or any identity of its own. However, it isn't horrible when taken as a simple horror flick. |
| Houston ChronicleBruce WestbrookThe Beginning surpasses both sequels, yet it still feels like a potboiler that regurgitates reliable jolts as if it were sticking to its own rites. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA grimly goofy, tediously bloody, dismally un-scary trashing of Friedkin's original that fits comfortably with the myriad other 'supernatural' disasters of recent years. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfMaybe Schrader's more subdued take was really the only way to approach this story. Hopefully one day we can all see the difference. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxNot good to be sure, but hardly the unwatchable black hole of Suck we had been led to anticipate. |
