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Accidental Exorcist
USA 2016
produced by Warren Croyle, Sheri Beth Dusek for Rotomation Pictures, Sector 5 Films
directed by Daniel E. Falicki
starring Daniel E. Falicki, Faye Sills, Sherryl Despres, David Higbee, Michael McCallum, Joel Potrykus, Kara Joy Reed, James Harris, Julianne Gouwens, Lajanae Smith, Michael Cunningham, Mary C. Brown, Heath Scarbrough, Shelley Irwin, Patrick Hendren, Mike Roberts, Chris Kotcher, Jeffrey Goodrich, Sheri Beth Dusek, Andrew Owen, Thomas Ferratt, Chalrey Vanportfliet, Chris Deyoung, Mitch Smigiel, Anne Cope, Marly Green, Christopher Randall, Mariea Louisa Macavei, Scott Baisden, Jason Roth, Andrew Schafer, Vivian C. Schafer, Mary Howing, Nikki Kelly
written by Warren Croyle, Daniel E. Falicki, music by Tom Ashton, special effects makeup by Anne Cope, creatures, props and set design by Rotomation Works Dept. 4
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Richard Vanuk (Daneil E. Falicki) is a hopeless alcoholic, there are no
two ways about it, and that's probably part of the reason why he has never
made something out of himself - after all, everybody once considered him a
damn good writer, but he had never seriously picked it up, and now he's
living in a shithole apartment with no real prospect for the future, and
is hardly able to scratch up the rent even for this place. But there's one
thing he actually is good at, he's a first rate exorcist. Thing is he has
never aspired to be one, let alone studied the subject, for some reason
he's just good at establishing mental links with demons and driving them
out of persons they possess ... even if with every exorcism he seems to
absorb part of them - which in turn drives him to drink all the heavier.
But at least it's a job, and Richard even has an employer who gets him
exorcisms at a semi-regular basis and sees that he's paid by the exorcism
- not much mind you. But being an exorcist is not all the glamour it
might seem to be, Richard regularly gets puked on, demons try to hurt or
kill him, and after alcohol binges following the exorcisms he wakes up at
the weirdest places. At one point, Richard even tries to leave his
demon-hunting existence behind to try his luck in the corporate world, but
he quits after half a day already, prefering to get puked on but making a
difference to slaving away from 9 to 5. But that said, Richard has no idea
to what extent the demon world already has taken hold on him ... Now
truth to be told, Accidental Exorcist is a bit on the episodic side
and could have done with a shorter running time - but that said, as
episodic as the film might be, each "episode" does have its own
imagery and its own rather original punchline, so one certainly doesn't
get bored. And the rather shaky camerawork (which I'm usually not much of
a fan of) really helps to get into the rather muddled mind of the
protagonist - whom director Falicki embodies almost eerily well as a total
human wreck! Definitely a film of interest, and very entertaining on top
of that!
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