Synopsis
In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.
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Cast
- Olivia Taylor DudleyAngela Holmes
- Michael PeñaPère Lozano
- Peter AnderssonCardinal Bruun
- Djimon HounsouVicar Imani
- Kathleen RobertsonDocteur Richards
- Montanna GillisJackie
- Noemi GonzalezMaria
- Alison LohmanPsych Patient
- Dougray ScottRoger Holmes
- John Patrick AmedoriPete
Recommendations
- 63
Slant Magazine
Like technological innovation itself, the film seems overwhelmed by the reach of all its techo-cultural parts. - 60
The New York Times
The director Mark Neveldine deploys queasy lighting and a trembling score, but his best choice is to let Ms. Dudley stare at us. She conveys unnerving shifts in self-awareness and sinister intent with her eyes. - 60
Variety
Silly, screechy and eminently watchable. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Just another unimaginative rip-off. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Another day, another exorcism…ho-hum. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Writers Christopher Borrelli and Michael C. Martin commit quite a handful of sins of contrivance that are difficult to absolve. - 33
The A.V. Club
In nearly every way—from how the movie’s being released to the way it approaches the whole satanic possession subgenre — The Vatican Tapes is dispiritingly ordinary. It’s the rote B-movie that Neveldine up to now has tried so hard not to make. - 30
Village Voice
At no point does this film strive to be more than a second-rate version of what it is: a halfhearted attempt to make some scratch while pretending the devil exists. Some trick.
