![]() It is not until nearly the first hour is over that we get to the exorcism. It runs to 108 minutes long, just short of two hours. It took a long time for me to get into The Priests. The odd thing it does offer is that is made in South Korea and we see certain aspects of local religion – like choosing the exorcist based on their astrological year of birth, the use of a shamanistic ceremony in parallel to a Catholic one – that make for an undeniably fascinating fusion. ![]() When it comes to the exorcism scene, the film is still reliant on the usual bag of tricks. During the forty years since The Exorcist (1973) laid all of this down, almost nothing has been done to expand, theologically question the actuality or offer any alternate take on things. ![]() ![]() I have written on how tired the possession and exorcism film is starting to become and only consists of cycling around the same cliches and effects – vomitings, head turnings, the Catholic priests chanting “the power of Christ compels you” and so on. The film was a directorial debut for Jae-hyun Jang who had made the genesis of it in the earlier 25-minute short film 12th Assistant Deacon (2015). The Priests was a South Korean film that did some reasonable traction in was a very good year for Korean horror, also including Train to Busan (2016) and The Wailing (2016), all of which were released within an eight month period.
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