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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

User Score
3.1 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Starring: Gabriel Mann, Stellan Skarsgård
  • Summary: Paul Schrader's version of the prequel, before it was remade by Renny Harlin and released as "Exorcist: The Beginning."

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    The material is right up Schrader's alley, and while his vision of the first "Exorcist" chapter isn't a masterpiece, it's far superior to the Renny Harlin prequel to "The Exorcist" released last year.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    60
    Result is hardly a diabolical failure, if not quite a heavenly masterpiece. Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip-service to the need for scares.
  3. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    30
    It's chatty when it wants to pretend it's deep and spiritual, messy when it's striving for chaotic and thrilling, and boring when it has no other options left.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. MarshallM.
    10
    A 10 of a horror movie!
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  2. MarcD.
    4
    A year after the first prequel, we see the version which was originally made. Unfortunately, horror has never been so pretentious. Long, self indulgent and extremely dull...this movie is only notable for the peformance of Skarsgard (Merrin) and a rather curious monologue by Satan himself. He spits. He grimaces. He snarls. He gesticulates. He talks...and talks...and talks. And we...get really bored.… Expand
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  3. [Anonymous]
    3
    Better than the other prequel, but very, very dull. Could the exorcism have been any more anti-climatic?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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