Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2019)

A B-rated Bang for your Buck horror comedy!

Finally, someone did something right!

The main story begins like a really bad joke; a priest, a rabbi and a flight crew board a plane and hell ensues at the cruising altitude of 60,000 feet. If I didn't get you in the first sentence, this movie probably isn't for you, but it damn well was for me. 

The movie opens up with a priest performing an exorcism in a big house, similar to The Exorcist. 

"Wait. This isn't where I parked my car..."

It's a horror comedy, so it plays out with a little bit of a suspense before the comedic twist. I thoroughly enjoyed when the priest, played by Lance Henriksen, gave up on the rites and just straight up pulled out a revolver. Like Terry Pratchett reviewing the game doom: "Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..." Or in this movie's case, a side-arm revolver. 

Time passed and the same priest hops on board a transatlantic airliner on its last flight. Unbeknownst to him, the spirit of a Vietnam vet starts possessing the passengers. That's pretty much all you need to know before watching this movie

I honestly thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's not a big budget, silver screen fiasco. It was obviously mid budget and went straight to DVD and Video-on-Demand, but it was extremely enjoyable. The movie isn't dark (save for the first few minutes) and the acting was shoddy at best. But it was what this particular movie needed. 

If you're a fan of B-rated horror, then this is one of the go-to movies you should watch. 

It also features a great cast of seasoned actors from the 80's and 90's like Bai Ling (The Crow, Crank: High Voltage), Adrienne Barbeau (Escape from New York, Demolition Man), Lance Henriksen (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aliens 3) and many others. 

"Sir, this is not cultural appropriation"

Exorcism at 60,000 Feet just takes you on enjoyable journey from start to finish. The dialogue is rugged and I assume ad-libbed most of the time, the shots were clunky but otherwise acceptable and the storyline just fits into the overall narrative and theme of the movie quite well. So much so, in fact, that it won various top awards at the Hollywood Horror Fest including Best Horror Comedy Feature, Best Actor for Robert Miano, Best Comedic Actress for Bai Ling, Best Score for Richard Band, Legacy Award for Lance Henriksen and Barf Bag Award for Bill Moseley. 

Exorcism at 60,000 Feet deserved the award and I know it'll be one of the horror comedy movies I recommend to people. 

All in all, I give Exorcism at 60,000 Feet four ghost emojis out of five. ðŸ‘»ðŸ‘»ðŸ‘»ðŸ‘»





 

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