The Vatican Tapes

The Vatican Tapes is a horror film about an exorcism.

The things I liked about this film were some of the camera directions. I liked the shots where it became kind of abstract in its look. It almost felt like a European art house movie. There were also some nice creepy images in this which I liked and wasn’t prepared for. The acting was ok, it was competent. It wasn’t the worst, but it wasn’t ground-breaking.

The bad things about this movie are that it’s not scary. Ok, if you haven’t watched this type of horror before, you may find at least some scenes scary, but for me it wasn’t scary. It was a mild horror film, almost a thriller. It was also quite boring in parts, especially the scenes in the meeting room. The film was predictable, I mean, if you’ve seen one of these types of films, then you’ve nearly seen every one. It has the feeling of a B movie about it. It practically screams like one of the characters direct-to-DVD. But that was ok; it was just a small quibble. There were some dodgy camera shots, where the actors’ hair was distracting because it was in the way of a good shot. At last, it was quite uneventful. It was slow (not very, though), but nothing much seemed to happen. It didn’t help that it was so predictable, as well.