The Exorcist Believer: One Year Later.

 One year has passed since Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green resurrected the demonic Pazuzu in the lackluster legacy sequel The Exorcist Believer. Unlike last year's Saw X, which was a return to form for the long-running torture series, Believer follows the bland blueprints of Blumhouse's Halloween trilogy. These 'bland blueprints' refer to the trilogy's approach of retconning all previous storylines and events except the original film, much like Believer does. However, unlike Halloween, where original creator John Carpenter never intended a sequel to the original Halloween and hated the sequels - Blatty never felt that way. Like all of us, Blatty disliked the studio's cash grab sequel, 1977's The Exorcist 2: The Heretic, and wrote two beautiful and thoughtful sequels, The Ninth Configuration and Legion; I highly recommend those novels and films. Which Blatty published as novels before adapting and directing them as feature films. Blumhouse and Green's statement of retcon is disrespectful to Blatty's works. 

Setting the disrespectful retcon aside and evaluating Believer as a standalone film, it still falls short. Filled with lazy writing, shallow and pointless characterization, and a complete lack of understanding of the original's themes, Believer comes off more like a product of an Amateur than a professional filmmaker. Upon its release, Exorcist Believer was a tedious and disgraceful experience, a massive insult to the source material and the audience. The film's incompetence in grasping the original's themes is evident, making it truly one of the worst horror films ever made. -6/10.