When old Agnes (Elizabeth McNally) has a fit of violent madness before she dies, nobody's really surprised as she has been suffering from dementia for years, and her fit might just be one of the symptoms. When her longtime maid Magda (Anna Liddell) goes violently crazy though, Agnes's family - daughter Christine (Nicola Wright) and her offspring Rebecca (Sarah Alexandra Marks) and Nick (Ben Parsons), and son Patrick (Simon Furness) and his daughter Rose (Nicole Nabi) - is fittingly concerned, so much so that they call in an exorcist, tough guy priest with a handgun and a criminal record Father Jozsef (Robert Bronzi). It doesn't take Father Jozsef long before he determines that Magda is possessed, and he has her gagged and tied down to a bed over the night - much to the dismay of Patrick, who doesn't give much about the whole idea of exorcism. In fact, of the whole family only Rebecca really believes in Father Jozsef. That said, that night Magda's all tied up, Nicholas is brutally killed by a person unknown. Father Jozsef insists of not calling the police, instead performs an exorcism on Magda - that kills the poor woman. Upon this, Patrick wants to throw Father Jozsef out - which ends in a fistfight, where Father Jozsef soon wins the upper hand. That earns him the respect from Patrick, and after sharing a bottle of whiskey, he invites him to stay after all. But later that night, Patrick, too, is killed by a person unknown, something Christine blames on Father Jozsef and thus asks him to leave, despite his assertions that his work is not yet done. It's only later that Father Jozsef opens a letter Patrick has written to him that also contains a few photos that he figures who's really behind everything - but by this time it might be too late ...

Now Exorcist Vengeance most certainly isn't a film that tries to re-invent the horror genre - quite the contrary, actually, it's a throwback to 1970s horror in pretty much everything, from theme to story to style to effects to pacing, and of course Charles Bronson double Robert Bronzi in the lead also hits high on the nostalgia charts, especially since he still brings an air of Death Wish to his priest character. But all of this really works for the movie, it's a nice change from modern indie horror that only rarely takes the route of this film. That said, this movie doesn't work just as a throwback but tells a story that's engaging enough, the film's directed with an eye on atmosphere, and the cast is solid, with Bronzi, even if he won't ever be able to shake Charles Bronson comparisons, coming more and more into his own. That all results in probably not a classic, but genre fun for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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