The middle exorcism

The clip above is one of my favorite things I've seen all week, and certainly the best thing in the film it comes from -- Wes Craven's 1984 TV movie Invitation to Hell. Invitation is a too-terrible-for-Terrible Hunting, Stepford Wives Go to the Country Club affair that stars a foxy Robert Urich, a devilish Susan Lucci, the kid that played Bastian in The NeverEnding Story, and a pre-shoulder padded Joanna Cassidy (aka Right on Top of That Rose from Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead). But it is Soleil Moon Frye, fresh off the first season of Punky Brewster, who steals the show with her turn as a possessed tot. She dismembers this giant bunny doll she carries around for most of the movie (after the audience has gotten attached to it and everything!), shouts things like, "We don't like nice!" and speaks in a devil voice that has only been altered by her (I guess adding an effect like pitching it down would have cost $5 too much?) so that she sounds like the kid who's obsessed with Pee-Wee Herman in Overboard. I didn't see The Last Exorcism, but I doubt that anything in it was as riveting and Punky's internal dance with the devil in these cheap TV movie lights.

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[piile]

speaking of random youtubes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQU7HRJWS1s

[Dio]

"I didn't see The Last Exorcism, but I doubt that anything in it was as riveting and Punky's internal dance with the devil in these cheap TV movie lights."

I doubt anything can hold a candle to that.

[Spasticfurchild]

You don't want to see The Last Exorcism. There's nothing in there that's even worth mocking :(

However--
The brother in the movie looks like Ronald Weasley, and in a backwoods way, I'd hit it.

[Julia]

I could not stop laughing! He locks his kids in the closet and I loved the make-up on Joanna Cassidy! Then he leaves his possessed family, alone..hopefully to get an old Priest and a young Priest.

Thank you for sharing!

[Smeckler's Powder]

What's the big deal? All 4-year-old's act that way...

[Evilwilma]

Wowsers. That house is BLUUUUUE. No wonder they're possessed.

[Cookie]

This is why I never had kids......one of them could drop onto you, snarling, out of nowhere.

[herve leger dress]

This is hard to know what people! .

[clerinsmadona]

Even though you might not believe in god that is some scary ****,
EX. The exorcism of Jone Dohame of 1300 France.
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[Robert]

Invitation To Hell is simply the greatest piece of art ever made. A complete dissection of the American dream. A subtle allegory for the AIDS crisis. A tapestry woven of the modern family that rivals any other.

Susan Lucci is a revelation. The lipstick alone has significance. The opening 50 seconds present a moment so transcendent it's a miracle that it was ever recorded for our eyes to see. Watch it 13 times in a row and let it seethe all over you.

The 1980's were never captured more magnificently. They must live in the same neighborhood as the family in Poltergeist. It's aesthetically and spiritually identical. No other explanation is possible. The ghosts from the burial ground moved out and Satan moved in to open a spa.

A coveted country club/spa that is so hideous (even by 80's standards) it's menacing to think why anyone would want to join.

DILF Robert Urich works it hard here. So hard for the money. Ah, Joanna Cassidy, so blinded by that steamy door.

Those children... The best cast roles in all of history. Rivaling only Jessie Spano as Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone.

The mind blows. No more words.

[kaseyhutchings]

It's all a load of mumbo-jumbo thought up by religious leaders to keep people under the hold of the church at a time when the church was primarily a tool to control the masses and create wealth for the few.
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The lipstick alone has significance. The opening 50 seconds present a moment so transcendent it's a miracle that it was ever recorded for our eyes to see. Watch it 13 times in a row and let it seethe all over you.

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