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Movie Review: The Vatican Tapes

Horror cheapie has a devil of a time feeling original. Review by Brandon Wolfe It happens every year. Some studio plops some cheapie exorcism/possession thriller into theaters hoping that enough undiscerning Friday night moviegoers will turn up before the film sinks like a stone. These films are virtually interchangeable. A pretty young woman starts acting oddly. Her loved ones grow concerned. Unexplained phenomena occurs. Blood is spilled (but not too much; gotta lock down that PG-13). A priest or a medium is brought in to help. The evil is vanquished…OR IS IT? The Vatican Tapes is this year’s version of that movie and it follows the playbook to the letter. The story centers on a young woman named Angela (Olivia Taylor Dudley) whose life seems idyllic, save for the fact that her stern, Irish Catholic father (Dougray Scott, taking a break from sticking needles in his Hugh Jackman voodoo doll) does not approve of her doting live-in boyfriend (John Patrick Amedori). Angela lapses i...