Audience Member
This is not based on the story that inspired by the story the exorcist was based on I own a book about that and there is no details about any of this bs happened this is total BS excuse for a true story it's so full of bs it slaps you in the face
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
Full Review
Audience Member
It wasn't that bad as other reviewers say so, it was just bad acted and not directed well. Yeah the acting by the main character needed a lot more to be believeable. It was like seeing the exorcist but the gheto version. What this movie needed is to be more believeable line the 1973 "The Exorcist". So for this being a bad film made I give "Excorcism:The Possesion Of Gail Bowers"a D.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
Full Review
Audience Member
Unfortunately, an all too typical Asylum release - tons of potential that is just never quite realized.
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
Full Review
Audience Member
<strong>Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers</strong> (Leigh Scott, 2006)
Hey, folks? The Asylum pulled a fast one on you. It may have been a test to see how film-savvy their audience is. And to make sure they were going to hit the lowest common denominator, they grabbed Leigh Scott to do this one, a director whose previous films, including such timeless cinematic classics as <em>Hillside Cannibals</em>, one of the worst films I have ever seen, make him uniquely qualified to expose the stupid. As expected, a whole lot of people rose to the bait and complained that this was a total ripoff of <em>The Exorcism of Emily Rose</em> (or, even better, claimed that this tripe was actually better than one of the only decent horror flicks to come out of Hollywood in the past decade). Folks, you got snowed, and your ignorance of film history is showing. And we're not talking ancient history here, either; <em>The Possession of Gail Bowers</em> is actually a complete ripoff of <em>The Exorcist</em>. Come on. The whole structure is straight-up William Peter Blatty. And you get those touches like the demon possessing a priest and the crawling on the ceiling (that was so ludicrous even back in the early seventies that Friedkin banished it until <em>The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen</em> was released in someone's desperate gamble for money) and how much more do you need? Go back and watch Linda Blair looking cute and possessed and you'll have a much better idea of where Leigh Scott was coming from.
Given the first paragraph, do you really need a plot synopsis? Go watch Friedkin. Here are the deviations: the possession begins when Anne (<em>Universal Soldiers</em>' Noel Thurman, perhaps best-known-or she should be anyway-for providing one of the voices in the English dub of the interesting, in minor, Turkish thriller <em>Gen</em>) and Clark (<em>I Love You Philip Morris</em>' Griff Furst, Stephen's son) Pederson move from the wilds of Chicago to a little suburban place with a lot of McMansions and stuff. Anne and Clark took in Anne's sister, Gail Bowers (<em>Invasion of the Pod People</em>'s Erica Roby, who has since left the acting field and is now an associate producer on <em>The Amazing Race</em>), after the death of their parents. Gail quickly makes a friend, the trampy Francie (Rebekah Kochan from the Eating Out franchise), who soon enough turns the conversation of Gail's recently-departed parents and whether Gail has tried to contact them on the other side. Poof! Francie whips out a ouija board, and the game is afoot. Despite Gail's assertion to her religious-conservative sister that "a board game is hardly black magic!", as is the way of things in bad (and sometimes good but misguided) movies, it is exactly that, and a demon comes and sets up shop in Gail's soul. The fam tries to figure out what's wrong with Gail, etc.
To get this out of the way at the forefront: you don't mess with the Friedkin. Even if you'd reworked this script with someone who can actually write, cast this impeccably, and gotten a fantastic director, you still don't mess with the Friedkin. It is a project that is destined to fail. None of that happened, though, so you can't even give the Asylum points for trying here. Scott directed from his own script, and you can imagine just how will that works if you've seen any of his other movies (more recently, Scott was responsible for the ridiculous <em>Flu Bird Horror</em>, for example). And then there's the acting, which is where the Internet's talking heads are most sharply divided. As you may have suspected, I come down on the "terrible" side. Furst reminds me of Ethan Embry, but with even flatter affect, and it's pretty obvious from the nudity that two of the three principal women in this shindig were cast for talents other than their acting. (Roby is the only one who gets out of appearing topless, which if you realize that before watching the movie spoils one scene that I think is supposed to be key-but how can you NOT realize it when she's trying to play the seductress whilst dressed in a thick cotton T-shirt? Come on, folks.)
Awe-inspiringly stupid, but not the worst thing I've ever seen. Won't even hit my bottom 100. But this is still one to avoid like the plague. (half)
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
Full Review
Audience Member
God is more powerful than any demon in the world
Rated 5/5 Stars •
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
Full Review
Audience Member
Another fine Asylum film that is actually better than the other Asylum films but it instantly falls short because this movie had a couple of faults and problems from the start until the end. This is an ok Exorcism movie and it's not as good as most of the other Exorcism movies but it is better than the other Asylum films and it is also better than the other Exorcism movies that's been showing now a days this year. Exorcism The Possession of Gail Bowers has a really simple and keen plot this movie is about a young girl name Gail Bowers who moves to a new house with her sister and her sister's husband after they're parents passed away. Soon after Gail starts to play the Ouija Board she starts to act strangely and starts to say various insulting words towards her sister and her sister's husband and Gail's sister soon discovers that Gail is possessed by the devil and a priest is later on assigned to do an exorcism on her and the priest must perform the exorcism before Gail dies. This is actually a fine movie and it's not the best Asylum movie but it is better than the other Asylum films like the sequel to 666 The Child titled 666 The Beast even the other Asylum films as well. What I personally like about this movie is that the film is really atmospheric from start to finish and I seriously enjoy that so far and it really fits well for the movie so far and I seriously like that idea. What I also like about this movie is that the film also has lots of genuine spooks and scares with a couple of thrills and jolts and the first 30 minutes instantly made me jump so far and it looks great in the movie and it really fits well in the movie along with the atmosphere so far. Plus I also like the kills in this movie so far some of the death scenes were pretty effective and genuine from the first kill scene until the last this movie had everything and I think that the death scenes in this movie are effective and nice. The first death scene the one where the girl gets her face peeled off is seriously icky and disgusting and I think that's the nastiest death scene I've seen in the movie so far. The other death scenes like the one when the Possessed Gail Bowers starts to control the priest's hand while holding a knife starts to stab the other priest with the knife and he alter on gets killed by crushing his head with a desk those were some icky and great death scenes so far in the movie. I also like the make up effects in this movie the Possessed Gail make up looks incredible so far and she does look creepy and scary when you see her face so far in the movie and the make up effects are almost similar to The Exorcist so far. What I seriously didn't like about this movie is that the film had so many problems and faults as well. Starting from the acting in this movie. The acting in this film is really not good at all and the acting is not as good as the acting in 666 The Child because the acting in Asylum's 666 The Child ranges from mediocore to amazing and incredible acting while here the acting in Exorcism The Possession of Gail Bowers ranges from mediocore to horrendously awful and bad and seriously the acting in this movie are really weak it could have been better if the casts did something better with they're performances in the film I mean the range of the acting in this film is seriously starting from mediocore to horrendously awful and bad it could have been better if they did something good with their performances in the movie so far. What I also didn't like about the film is that the movie was too predictable, too lengthy and completely pointless after a great opening scene and the movie is full of minor pacing issues not only the acting is horrendously awful and bad which I seriously didn't like. The camera work in this movie is seriously lame and the camera work isn't as good as the camera work in 666 The Child because the camera work in 666 The Child is really well made and incredible as well but here in this movie the camera work is incredibly pointless and lame. I also didn't like some of the rip off scenes they got from other movies like the levitating and spider walk scene from The Exorcist even the scenes from the movie Stigmata which I seriously hated so far. Overall this movie gets a 6/10 this movie has great moments but it miserably fails and falls short and Asylum's 666 The Child was way better
than this movie so far.
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
Full Review
Read all reviews
>
