The Last Exorcism

Synopsis: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the evangelical Reverend Cotton Marcus was raised by his father to be a preacher. He agrees that the filmmaker Iris Reisen and the cameraman Daniel Moskowitz make a documentary about his life. Cotton tells that when his wife Shanna Marcus had troubles in the delivery of their son Justin, he prioritized the doctor help to God and since then he questions his faith. Further, he tells that exorcisms are frauds but the results are good for the believers because they believe it is true. When Cotton is summoned by the farmer Louis Sweetzer to perform an exorcism in his daughter Nell, Cotton sees the chance to prove to the documentary crew what he has just told. They head to Ivanwood and they have a hostile reception from Louis's son Caleb. Cotton performs the exorcism in Nell, exposing his tricks to the camera, but sooner they learn that the dysfunctional Sweetzer family has serious problems.
Director(s): Daniel Stamm
Production: Lionsgate
  7 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
2010
87 min
$40,990,055
Website
699 Views


Well! What's this? I got it.

No!...

Watch this...

- Got to be a troublemaker.

You think you're going to church?

- Troublemaker.

Yeah...

We're going to church...

Want to get the door?

Okay...

Thanks.

Now the most anointed man of God,

that I think I ever met...

in my life! I think you know my son.

I think they know my son!

- Yeah!

The Rev. Cotton Marcus,

let's give another hand!

For Jesus!

I started preaching pretty young.

You know... my father was a preacher.

And the... every preacher has to have a book.

That's gonna bring the people in.

To... get them saved and...

Frankly to get them into mob hood.

The church is gonna wanna know...

And the... you know child preacher was a great novelty.

So! He started germinate...

in order to preach in order to draw

outside community...

one of the guy fall down...

And by the time he invited me up on the podium.

One sunday! He...

wasn't surprised to let the people know...

the congregation is... The Holy spirit is...

visited his son. Erm...

As... spontheinous... as a...

that acclimated seem to the congregation.

we were...

We're it.

I'm saying right here!

If you want an answer!

if you want to know

Do you want to know?

- Yeah...

Yeah... it's right here! Brother!

Mr. Cotton is quite a character.

He's what you called a performer.

a showman... a... erm...

He's a natural creator.

For example, we've a local theater here and

Cotton writes plays and...

he's making mini movies now.

He's got props for theses, special effects...

I mean he energy's... like nobody business.

And... you know he starts here with us. But

of course it carries only to his professional.

Oh! You wanna ...

- Yes!

When simple character's are boring

people don't want to go.

But Cotton here is never boring.

Folks! I'm here to tell today that

the world is,

still worth many many faces.

Well! Some of those faces their... their good!

Their life of God!

Right! And some of those faces! They're gonna lie to you!

Gonna watch out for them.

- Absolutely.

So I'm gonna tell you today...

Make sure you don't fall for a pretty face.

A pretty face! Just may and need be...

Prince of Lies!

That's right!

Let me tell you right now!

His lies are everywhere!

Oh! Yeah... Yeah!

Hey, hey, hey! As he get Hallemonia... Hallelujah, blood of Christ and

on the blood and a...

I mean they practically not listen. You get me right?

It's practise when they listen.

Oh! They're listening...

Oh! They are so much so not listening.

I can talk about anything.

I can talk about erm...

I can talk about my mom's banana bread recipe,

Oh! You don't think so?

See now you're underestimating...

- You don't think so?

No! You underestimating your crowd.

- When I get back in there...

I will preach a banana bread sermon.

That's embarrasing...

- I bet you 10 bucks!

Do you believe when you go allow

the Holy Ghost into your heart,

you will be cleansed of all your sins?

Consider a Kingdom of God!

Amen!

- That's what I'm talking about...

Now get another Amen?!

- Amen!

Now Hallelujah!

Now get a Hallelujah AND a Amen!

Now do you know you get two ripe banana,

put em in a bowl.

You put some sugar and you go ahead

and bake it for 400.

And you go pull it out and have yourself some

banana bread. Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Yes you can...!

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus!

We are in my dad's office...

and actually today's very special

as we're in Lemaray's office.

Well! I don't want them to see the combination. dad!

I won't.

Yeah! Please don't ma'am. The combination is...

Erm.. to be honest. I'm the only one that knows.

Me and my accountant.

This is the hardis Dalcar.

It's about twenty and whole.

Shut the room, shut the room.

This book describes...

The various types of dangers.

Helps you identifies them.

and then recommends the process,

for getting rid of that demon.

We're have exorcists... in our family for

generations. Generations.

And the...

How many exorcism do you think

you'd done with this book?

That's the figure... Ya.

There isn't a poet on Lucifier's disc?

Lucifer was indeed an angel. At one point.

Some people say that he was actually the

choir master of heaven. Or lacking the better word.

He was helping praise his honest to God.

but he decided he wanted the praise himself!

and with that God cast him out from heaven.

He took the 3th of the posts (postles) with him.

and those are your demons! You have today.

And then what you have basically is the setup

of the entire bounty...

You have the soul of men being fought over,

God wants you to turn to the light of HIM.

And Satan wants to grab your soul.

because ultimately Satan wants to overthrow God.

So you just clash.

The Bible is filled with demons.

If you believe in God you have to believe in the Devil.

Jesus himself was an exorcist. Therefore...

If you are a Christian and you believe in the Bible.

and you believe in Jesus Christ!

You have to believe in Demons!

Most people

contact me by my website.

but this is the old school here.

That's a... from Ivanwood,

he's from Georgia.

This one says:

"Please, open immediately. Urgent. "

Exorcism is alive and well in the present age.

People think it would mean a scourge of the middle ages,

that somehow went away. Cured by science.

Fact of the matter is... It's never going away.

Exorcism today! Is bigger than it's ever been.

The Vatican has... you said have 20, 25...

sanctioned exorcists on the staff.

Now they have over... well over 300.

Not just for weddings!

And... you know they're not telling us everything.

And that is only for capitals. They get...

They get all the press cause they got the

movies and the script. So the...

possibly nothing... the reality of it.

That exorcism are performed by every

religion all over the world.

Local boy Cotton delivers his first exorcism.

As a little boy I thought this was on

every newspapers around the world.

Tell us what your father does?

He fights for the demons

and the vampires, and ghosts. All the munsters.

He fights all the ghosts, and

demons and the vampires?

And the monsters.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Does your father believe in ghosts?

I do not believe in natural demons. No.

but when I was doing exorcisms.

You know...

I acted like I did.

Only I had saw demons coming outta anybody?

So for the last something odd years,

you've just been a fraud?

Your theory, not mine.

I wouldn't say that.

I would say that the... The last couple of years what I've been doing?

is really what I have always been doing,

is delivering a service to a person

who needs it.

in a way that they need it.

I'm not saying that I'm a doctor.

but I am saying that I help heal people,

From what ails them. And from what ails them somethings.

Was the thought in their brain that

they were possessed by the Devil.

And if I help to make that thought go away!

and they felt better!

so be it.

I got... I got a family to feed.

At least I tell you to justify.

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