Repossessed (1990)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Crappy film

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Comedy made as sequel to famous horror The Exorcist. In original movie, in 1973 devil takes possession of girl named Reagan, while in Repossessed he takes the same person 17 years later, but here she is named Nancy. Linda Blair plays both roles, Nancy and Reagan... Nancy Reagan :D For her role in The Exorcist she got Golden Globe and Oscar nomination, while in her later performances she was nominated for the worst actress 6 times. Movie is full of typical Leslie Nielsen humor, references and parodies to everything and anything. To me, it was very entertaining and definitely worth watching more than original...........................................

As a teenager, I became a Leslie Nielsen fan after having seen Naked Gun and Airplane! I saw everything I could find with his name listed, except this movie. It was there in my video rental shop, alright, but friends told me it was the worst god-awful crap they'd seen. And with respect to Mr Spoof-Master and my feelings for him, I never saw it.Until now.Why not, I thought, when it is for free on Youtube? And initially, I was pleasantly surprised. The movie did look good with some production values (professional actors, good photo and locations). The humor was plain silly and was not able to capture the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker attitude it imitated, in which everything seems to be deadpan serious until it turns on its head, but Leslie Nielsen did a good job nevertheless. Not good, but not really bad either.When Linda Blair became re-possessed and visited a hospital and there after a church for professional help, it was already a lame movie. And from there on it was a downward spiral with lousy, uninspired jokes galore. Really, what is funny with the notion that a possessed woman is used in a television ballyhoo? At this point, "Reposessed" have almost nothing in common with the movie it try to parody; in "The Exorcist" (1973) the possession is a horrible, shameful event the family must hide from public.

Nothing against this movie, but it is one of those spoof movies that relies to much on one movie rather than having a story and such of its own while using aspects of a movie. This one basically does "The Exorcist" and while it has its funny moments this particular movie was spoofed better in short scenes in the little known horror spoof "Hysterical" and the later movie "Scary Movie 2". It was also spoofed good on a Saturday Night Live skit with Richard Pryor in the role of the young priest. This movie has your basic sight gags such as the one depicting handicap parking and the groan inducers like the inclusion of Jesse Ventura and that other wrestling announcer during the final scene and a very bad singing number. It is rather humorous that they got Linda Blair to be in it, sort of like how they got Richard Crenna to be in Hot Shots II, and Leslie Nielson is the highlight. However, he is not in this movie all that much, and the scenes he is not in are weak at times. Still the movie has enough jokes to be entertaining enough for its very short running time of eighty minutes.

Low-budget, low-balled, overwhelmingly juvenile, though surprisingly tolerable "Airplane!"-like spoof of "The Exorcist", which was overdue in 1990 and--in light of the televangelist jokes--seems even more passé today. "Exorcist" star Linda Blair returns as a housewife named Nancy (in the previous film she was Regan, haha) whose body is taken over by a raucous, prankish Prince of Darkness; Leslie Nielsen is the befuddled priest. Writer-director Bob Logan seems to have earned the trust of his players, who go out on a limb trying to make this thing fly, but too many of the gags bomb out and the film's continuity is sloppy. It is nice however to see the normally put-upon Blair having a good time, dancing to "Devil With the Blue Dress On", and hamming it up in high spirits. ** from ****