Repossessed

There have been so many movies like this one lately that it might be time to consider them a new genre, what might be called film Pinot Noir, movies whose ideas and casting look good on paper but that end up looking as if they were made by drunks. REPOSSESSED is a prime example. As ideas go, the one behind this film is better than average: Sign up Linda Blair, star of THE EXORCIST, and place her at the center of a sequel spoof in which she plays a sweet suburban housewife who is possessed by the Devil. Is it any surprise that Blair was game? Since vomiting pea soup, twisting her head around, and talking like Mercedes McCambridge in the 1973 William Friedkin...