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177 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
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The Pope's Exorcist is a 2023 horror thriller film, directed by Julius Avery, starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto and Alex Essoe.
- 156 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Feb 22, 2023 to Oct 26, 2026
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60 of 177 · most liked firstMy random "Roman Empire" is that one time a movie used Dragon Age Inquisition symbol instead of the real-life spanish inquisition symbol 😂 I think about it every couple of days or weeks for some reason lmao (The movie is The Pope's Exorcist. And I never watched it😂)
neutral · AI labelView post →These two movies are not connected at all. What. The. Fuck. #ThePopesExorcist #TheExorcism #horror #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →THE POPE'S EXORCIST director Julius Avery has taken the directorial reins from Neill Blomkamp on alien abduction horror movie THEY FOUND US: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/384014...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie The Pope's Exorcist is hot (fun) trash, but Russell Crowe's bear era is hot fire!
neutral · AI labelView post →Me: Need to draw tonight, let's put on a stupid horror movie so I don't have to actually pay attention. THE POPE'S EXORCIST: Welcome to subtitle hell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #116 "The Pope's Exorcist" (Julius Avery/2023) Sometimes you just have to own a bad movie for how spectacularly bonkers it gets. So much fun in all the wrong ways. Get a case of beer, some friends and check it out!
neutral · AI labelView post →Delivered today for the collection, a movie so ridiculously fucking bad that I love every minute of it! - The Pope's Exorcist
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neutral · AI labelView post →Russell Crowe riding a Vespa from Italy to Spain in THE POPE'S EXORCIST is the least batshit thing about this movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Whenever I see the name of the film The Pope's Exorcist I get Brian Butterfield's voice in my head
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just watched The Pope's Exorcist (2023) on Netflix. It's like my favourite horror film ever, The Exorcist (1973) remixed by Jive Bunny.
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah, a movie called The Pope's Exorcist should be about the exorcist specifically on-call for exorcising the fucking pope
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe a hot take, but I liked The Pope's Exorcist, hit all the right classic-supernatural-horror buttons for me. Didn't know about this newer movie but now I wanna watch it
positive · AI labelView post →More movies should have the audacity of The Pope's Exorcist (a bad movie, but audacious) which does not end with the obligatory hints at a sequel, but instead promises 199 sequels
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie : The Pope's Exorcist (2023) #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#bales2025moviechallenge #filmsky 📽️ @infinitybuilder.bsky.social @sinnapomme.bsky.social @januarymovie.bsky.social @bramblejim.bsky.social @quirkyfilms.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.social @tadool.bsky.social @stonegasman.bsky.social 6-fav Exorcism movie THE POPE'S EXORCIST with Orson Welles
neutral · AI labelView post →My unpublished novella: It's like if The Pope's Exorcist was a Hammer film, but Powerwolf and Paradise Lost co-wrote it. Current WIP: Borderlands, but with even more blood coming out of mysterious cave walls. #HorrorWritersChat
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched the Pope's Exorcist last night and I thought about how hard it would to be a modern exorcist movie. "So you're saying my child is possessed by Satan?" -Yes! "And to save him, I have to leave him with two Catholic priests?" -Erm, yes. "Wow. I really gotta think about this..."
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird thing from last night: I was watching this movie, "The Pope's Exorcist." Scene 1, who appears but Russell Crowe himself. I think, oh what's he doing here. But get this - he starts acting like HE'S the Pope's Exorcist. But then it gets even wilder: everyone else goes along with it! Pretty wild.
neutral · AI labelView post →I also watched The Pope's Exorcist this morning. Absolutely awful movie top to bottom but it would make a fantastic basis for an RPG campaign
negative · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist is very much an ok film. It suffers by comparison to the greats and a tad too much CGI chaos at the end, but it rattles along pretty well
neutral · AI labelView post →to me this was exactly like 'The Pope's Exorcist', a bad movie I want to see sequels of
neutral · AI labelView post →THE POPE'S EXORCIST (2023, 4/10) - how on EARTH did this 2010-ass sassy plastic exorcism movie drop in 2023? This is a film made without knowledge of dubstep, the pandemic or the Cubs winning the World Series. This is a film out of time, found on the hard drive of an iPhone 4.
negative · AI labelView post →I'm going to take this moment to say that the creator's of THE POPE'S EXORCIST were cowards for not making the movie be about the pope getting possessed (which is what I thought it was about until I watched it)
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched The Confession: Thought this was going somewhere & then it ran into a hole The Pope's Exorcist: Entertaining, reminiscent of The Exorcist Control Freak: Wild "my-head-itches" movie Strange Harvest: So disappointed. I felt this mocked crime victims & their families
positive · AI labelView post →@matthew-wright.bsky.social I hope you asked the Exorcist priest if he has the regulation Lambretta, or if he's got something more powerful. I've seen the Pope's Exorcist film, and Russell Crowe whizzes around on a scooter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shit like The Pope's Exorcist or The Conjuring movies -- love a good slasher/horror flick, but those are just telegraphed jump scares, dumb plot points and snide comments about 'nonbelievers'
negative · AI labelView post →Watched "The Pope's Exorcist" tonight, my fellow Horror Mavens. This was a very enjoyable movie, specifically cuz it had "twists" that a Horror Maven would expect that did NOT happen. A very enjoyable viewing, with wonderful homages to horror movies past. Much recommended!
positive · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist is better than I could have hoped, such a fun film!
positive · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist is a mess of a film. Honestly there could have been a better more subtle psychological/spiritual horror there, but it chose to go into high camp fantasy instead. The only good religious possession movie remains Stigmata.
negative · AI labelView post →Did you know there are now TWO exorcism-themed movies starring Russell Crowe? And incredibly, they're both good! THE POPE'S EXORCIST is a rollicking spookablast, while THE EXORCISM is much darker (emotionally and literally - half the movie seems to take place in unlit rooms) and scarier.
positive · AI labelView post →BEFORE I HANG - Another sci-fi movie where Boris Karloff plays a doctor/scientist whose experiments don't go to plan. THE POPE'S EXORCIST - This era of Russell Crowe is wonderful. LONGLEGS - Nicolas Cage is especially creepy. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT - Concept is neater than the execution. Stull fun, though
neutral · AI labelView post →Tuesday film-The Pope's Exorcist. Russell Crowe adds a comedy Italian accent to CV in this half decent religious horror tale. Rusty is the titular character who needs to perform an exorcism. All the gang show up - spinning heads, spider walks, projectile spew. An entertaining 90 minutes
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's group movie, we're rewatching 'The Pope's Exorcist' 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →I never thought I'd enjoy Russell Crowe as much as I do in Master and Commander, and to be clear, I'm not saying this film is the exact same experience, BUT we are watching The Pope's Exorcist and the man in is his element, thriving, vibrant
positive · AI labelView post →Movie of the Day The Pope's Exorcist (2023) A chilling tale inspired by the real-life files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, who uncovers a centuries-old conspiracy while investigating a young boy's terrifying possession. This movie is a must-watch for horror fans!
neutral · AI labelView post →#HorrorMovies #Horror #FilmSky #HorrorSky 📽 Recently watched: The Pope's Exorcist. Disappointing.😕 Yes, the trailer showed another possessed kid plot, but it also seemed to be hinting at a bigger Vatican conspiracy involving the Pope. (1/3)
negative · AI labelView post →Pope's Exorcist had the Pope's Exorcist riding a moped around while "We Care a Lot" played over the soundtrack. Lovely film.
positive · AI labelView post →Me and the Mrs watched The Pope's Exorcist a few months ago. The title sounded like a 30 Rock movie but we were blown away. The movie rules. This is good news. movieweb.com/russell-crow...
positive · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist is not a good movie, but the thing that really gets me is that it's about a real guy. Like he (Gabriele Amorth, levitating, right) died in 2016
negative · AI labelView post →We watched The Pope's Exorcist. It's the goddamn Gone With the Wind of bad movies. I checked out until halfway through, something happened that melted me in laughs. This may be my favorite movie. Plus first 5 minutes have like 3 different songs in them, and then the next like 90 minutes? NO SONGS!
positive · AI labelView post →I will not defend The Pope's Exorcist as a film, but Russell Crowe is delightful as a cardinal.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why even have Russell Crowe in your movie if you're not gonna give him a silly little vespa again like in The Pope's Exorcist??? Don't waste my time!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you were wondering; Russell Crowe's 2024 film, The Exorcism is WAY WORSE than Russell Crowe's 2023 film The Pope's Exorcist
positive · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist - Unintentionally funny film that feels more like National Lampoon's The Exorcist. Russell Crowe seems to in on the joke. #moviesky
negative · AI labelView post →When I first heard of The Exorcism starting Russell Crowe, my first thought was "oh, is the sequel to The Pope's Exorcist out already?", which I assume is what the marketing team for The Exorcism were banking on. On the subject of Pope's Exorcist sequels - they do need to get a move on given that they apparently need to make 199 of them...
neutral · AI labelView post →the new one was shot before The Pope's Exorcist, but delayed because Crowe didn't like the end product, and wanted to make an exorcism movie he liked more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oculus! Great movie. Cabin In The Woods is also amazing, but I'm not sure it *quite* qualifies as a "horror movie". Edit: Oh, I thought of another one. The Pope's Exorcist is good IMO.
positive · AI labelView post →I'd say nearly 25 minutes of 1hr40 ish run of this film is spent in sacrament of Confession. It should be called The Priests who like to confess a lot and not The Pope's Exorcist. Although not a single Our Father or Hail Mary in penance no wonder it doesn't seem to take.
negative · AI labelView post →More fall spooky movies this week: -Errementari, a basque-language fantasy horror film that was totally my shit (a shitty little demon guy trapped in a cage) -The Pope's Exorcist which features Russel Crowe speaking in an Italian accent the whole time which really kept me going
positive · AI labelView post →📼 Notable April 14th releases... The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)(NYC, NY) Edge of Sanity (1989)(US) American Psycho (2000)(US & Canada) Hard Candy (2006)(limited) Scary Movie 4 (2006) Renfield (2023) The Pope's Exorcist (2023) #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched The Pope's Exorcist (2023) and rated it 2 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/conanriquelme/film/the-popes-exorcist/ #FilmSky 📽️🎥
negative · AI labelView post →I liked the Pope's Exorcist better. Russell Crowe had fun on that film.
positive · AI labelView post →Dammit, am I gonna have to watch a SECOND Russell Crowe exorcism movie? (THE POPE'S EXORCIST was a lot of fun.)
positive · AI labelView post →The Pope's Exorcist film is on C4 tonight. Russell Crowe whizzes round Rome on a Vespa, and Satan has a Moto Guzzi.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also The Pope's Exorcist is incredible. It's a spectacularly stupid film, and Russell Crowe is clearly having a lovely time.
positive · AI labelView post →I wouldn't say it's a bad movie. Russell Crowe had a better performance in the Pope's Exorcist. You can tell that he had fun in that role.
positive · AI labelView post →I have a small subgenre of films called "my partner got me this to watch me get mad at the bad depictions of Catholicism but I ended up liking it" - including The Borderlands/Final Prayer and The Pope's Exorcist. Saint Maud is also a very cathartic film for me.
positive · AI labelView post →I can't believe there was a film called "The Pope's Exorcist"!
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately The Pope's Exorcist is a rubbish and stupid film. Just that really
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