What an excellent day to see an advance screening of "The Exorcism".
When you hear Russell Crowe is going to play a troubled actor "Anthony Miller" with a past of alcohol and drug abuse you immediately think this will be a stretch for Rusty who's never made a headline once over crazy behaviour.
Oh wait a minute...that Russell Crowe...well now that'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience!
It's not the first time Russell has fought off demons on the Big Screen either.
Hands up if you remember "The Pope's Exorcist" from last year?
In that horror film he played Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist and put in a solid performance.
The crazy thing is he made this 2024 release "The Exorcism" in 2019 and this supernatural horror has been sitting on the shelves gathering dust for five years.
What makes this film even more intriguing is Director Joshua John Miller (brother of actor Jason Patric) is the son of actor Jason Miller (Academy Award nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright), who played Father Damien in 1973's "The Exorcist".
In fact, "Anthony Miller" is the star in a remake they are filming of "The Exorcist" with only the names changed to avoid law suits.
It's enough to make your head spin.
The inner film is being directed by Adam Goldberg as "Peter" and on all the scripts being studied by the actors the name for this movie is "The Georgetown Project".
So, it's no coincidence that the events for the original movie, the basis for this movie, happened in Georgetown, Washington DC.
I do love a good inside reference.
Crowe and Goldberg have been reunited after nearly 20 years since they filmed the marvellous "A Beautiful Mind" together.
In "The Exorcism", "Anthony" is slowly losing his beautiful mind to demonic possession that builds to a crescendo in the third act.
Meanwhile his on screen daughter Ryan Simpkins as "Lee" is freaking out that daddy is regressing to his old habits that put him in rehab while his wife, her mother, was dying of cancer.
The Catholic religion relies on guilt almost as much as demons do.
Watch out for: Sam Worthington as "Joe" who waits in the shadows and also David Hyde Pierce ("Frasier") as "Father Connor" a consultant on this fictional film and possibly an abuser from the deep, dark, troubled past of "Anthony".
This is no William Friedkin ("The Exorcist") script, but there's a lot to enjoy for horror fans in Crowes latest role, because he brings so much to the table and that voice rumbles your woofers and tweeters.
"The Exorcism doesn't suck rude body parts in hell.