Exorcizamus Te
2021 · 13m · Chile
Directed by Diego Alvarez Leon
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
An exorcism should end a young girl's suffering, but sometimes the words of God are not enough to end the real evil that lies deep in the darkness.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise promises subversion—exorcism as red herring, the real monster hiding elsewhere—but the execution lands squarely in conventional Catholic horror territory; it needed to *commit* to the weird thesis or abandon it entirely.
A competent dark drama that understands the visual grammar of religious horror, though it treads familiar ground without the formal innovation or historical consciousness that would anchor it in the tradition it's clearly dialoguing with.
The decision to keep the 'real evil' abstract and psychological rather than manifested—letting the tension live entirely in the girl's face and the priest's doubt—is what transforms a familiar setup into something genuinely unsettling on a shoestring.