The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

Russell Crowe (IMDB) steps into the role of Father Gabriele Amorth, the real-life Vatican exorcist who took on over 100,000 cases of demonic possession. But in The Pope’s Exorcist (Letterboxd).

Russell Crowe is basically a bad ass holy-empowered action hero, cruising around Europe on a Vespa, cracking jokes, and battling demons.

We’re breaking down Crowe’s performance, the film’s wild exorcism sequences, and how it stacks up against classics like The Exorcist (IMDB) and The Conjuring (IMDB). Plus, we dive into the real-life history of Father Amorth, who co-founded the International Association of Exorcists and wrote books like An Exorcist Tells His Story (Goodreads).

Was this movie just Gladiator (IMDB) meets The Conjuring, or did it bring something fresh to the exorcism genre? And what’s up with that post-credits tease.

The Vatican Exorcist Cinematic Universe?

Strap in, grab your crucifix, and join us for a deep dive into The Pope’s Exorcist.

Host: Jarrod Kane

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Thomas Jane headlines this mess of a film from 2008. Welcome to Mutant Chronicles, a film set on earth in the past kinda, but really it's in the future. It's on earth but a big evil rock flew into the earth that then unleashed some sort of machine that turns people into mutants for some reason?

Ron Perlman is also in this film as a sort of Brother dude, going through and reading from what can only be a magical book.

Then we have a ton of other actors like the always entertaining Devon Aoki playing her part of a sniper that for some reason pretty much only uses hand-to-hand combat. Surprised that she went to this after Fast and the Furious

Mutant Chronicles is based on a board game, it seems a lot like Warhammer at the start of the movie, and then when looking up its source that all started to make sense. The thing is, there's a lot of critical lore that is ignored and never told to people watching this movie for the first time. I can only imagine that they were planning for people to have played the game first if they were going to go to this movie?

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Virtual combat staring Donny "The Dragon" Wilson is a movie about a grid of some kind and virtual reality. Nearly all the combat takes place in reality, basically nothing except for a short scene at the start is virtual so the name is a little misleading.

The movie has some decent martial arts, but apart from that it forgets to set up the world or what's going on at all. I fell asleep during it, I can't really recommend this movie as so bad it's good

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