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- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
Summary A renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
Directed By: Justin P. Lange
Written By: Justin P. Lange
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 27 m
The Seventh Day
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Summary A renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
Directed By: Justin P. Lange
Written By: Justin P. Lange
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Writer-director Justin P Lange finds a satisfying way to update the possession-exorcist theme for a new generation grown wary of the Catholic church’s old ways, particularly in the wake of the abuse scandals that have shredded the clergy’s credibility in recent years.
The movie is diverting enough when it flirts with clerical politics, and that made me think it might be cool to make an exorcist film that dramatized the true-life ins and outs of the Catholic Church’s relationship to exorcism. There’s a major story there, and it could fuel a heady thriller. But The Seventh Day, having established Father Peter as a new kind of exorcist renegade, soon gets down to business as usual.
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The whole experience feels like a generic inventory of recognizable tropes—the possessed child, the creepy old woman, the deeply-concerned priests, and the Ouija board are all here. Except, the cumulative fear bizarrely fizzles before it reaches something significant or emotionally meaningful.
Who do you cast when you've got a mid-tier supernatural thriller that needs a low-key but charismatic, talented but not showboaty, and recognizable actor to play one of the leads? Guy Pearce, of course, and without him under Peter's decidedly unpriestly demeanor then middling supernatural chiller The Seventh Day would barely raise a flutter of attention, never mind a spirit.
The movie is too ponderous and dry — neither endearingly trashy nor effectively scary.
The failures pile up quickly after that promising first act and The Seventh Day doesn’t hold the interest past day two
