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My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)
Colossal Disappointment
Somehow they managed to skip every single exciting and tense and funny moment from the book and ruined a great story. The book is amazing but the movie is a terrible representation.
They totally changed or skipped important parts of the book and replaced them with rushed storylines that seemed like a poor afterthoughts meant to make the movie more PC than the book is. Without giving too many spoilers there's no dog, no dramatic seen with owls, Glee's big moment is missing, Wallace's big mistake never happened, the big field trip was left out, the late night calls didn't make it in and neither did Abby's run in with the law because of the you know what from the trip. The big rift between the friendships was significantly watered down, Gretchen's big physical transformation was gone, and the ending was nothing like the book at all- all the way down to the character that moved away. Everything was different and was done poorly.
On top of that the acting is is low to mediocre quality and doesn't showcase the fun personalities of the main characters. I know these aren't super well known actors with tons of practice but the acting is similar to the to the horrible acting from true crime show reenactments. Abby and Gretchen don't seem like almost life long best friends, they seem like they barely know eachother. The "comedy" in the movie isn't funny, it's just stupid and annoying. The "horror" is reminiscent of d-list horror movies. The effects are terrible, some of the worst CGI I've ever seem. It's 2022 and they're out here using CGI from the early 2000's on this movie.
Everything from beginning to finish is terrible and is nothing like the book.
The movie is an embarrassment and I can't believe Grady Hendrix would allow one of his best books to be made into a half assed film that makes a mockery of the book and his writing talents.
The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016)
Giving this a 1 because they think Maryville is in Iowa.
First of all, Maryville is in Missouri, it's about 30 minutes from Villisca so the part where Jess asks why anyone would move to Iowa is irrelevant because if she is going to school with Caleb, who is in the Maryville Paranormal whatever and who lives in Maryville and went to school in Maryville, then she moved to Missouri and not Iowa. I went to college in Maryville and have unfortunately had to make that drive around Clarinda and Villisca multiple times and both towns are kind of terrible so if she had truly moved to that part of Iowa she wouldn't have even had to ask that question sarcastically because it's obvious that the only reason anyone would ever move there from Chicago would be because they decided to be a farmer or got a job teaching at Northwest Missouri State.
Two, I can confirm that the place is not guarded . Unless things have changed in the past 5 years, and they most likely haven't, it isn't guarded and most of the time no one is even there. There are several paranormal sites in Northwest Missouri/Southwest Iowa that NWMSU Bearcats frequent and having been to a lot of them I can confidently write that they aren't guarded. Most of them, including Villisca, are in the middle of BFE away from any real population of people and they don't need to be guarded. Being that this place is probably 2-3 hours from the nearest major airports there isn't a lot of people going to these areas because they are out of the way and a pain to get to. I've probably driving through Villisca about 10 times and have never once seen anyone stopped at the axe house.
Also it would not shock me if they had a murder weapon out in the open. I haven't been inside but I do remember a friend telling me something like that.