Until that day hopefully comes, though, here are eight other exorcism-focused horror movies to enjoy if you're brave: 1. It could easily mark the start of a new film, one that follows Angela in her 'work,' with Vicar Imani (Djimon Hounsou) watching over her every move.īut will it? It's too soon to tell, but perhaps an announcement of a second movie is imminent.

After Angela (Olivia Taylor Dudley) is the subject of a failed exorcism that ends with the deaths of everyone around her, she becomes a prophet of sorts, performing famous and widely-seen healings across the world. Yet the biggest hint of all that The Vatican Tapes will get a sequel is its ending ( spoilers to follow!). Although its box office take certainly wasn't enormous, the movie was far from a flop, and horror movies of late tend to be made with the hopes of a franchise in mind. Reviews of the movie were mixed, but during its opening weekend, it had the best box office debut for a movie of its nature - so naturally, the question on everyone's minds is, will there be a Vatican Tapes sequel?Īlthough nothing's been announced so far, I, for one, would be shocked if a sequel wasn't already in the works. This month's The Vatican Tapes, though, stands out from the pack, thanks in large part to its A-list cast (Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou and Ant-Man scene-stealer Michael Pena) as well as a genuinely scary plot: an epidemic of demon possession is occurring, and the Vatican has taped every exorcism.

The film finished its theatrical run four weeks later, on August 20, having grossed 1,784,763 domestically. Any film based on the premise of an exorcism will always draw immediate comparison to the original that started it all: The Exorcist, mainly because most. In recent years, a lot of the horror movies that've come out have tended to look a lot alike - found-footage shooting techniques, scares that are spoiled in the trailers, and an ending that can be predicted a mile away. The Vatican Tapes is yet another movie in the long list of movies about an evil spirit possessing a young woman and an exorcism being required to remove said spirit. The Vatican Tapes opened theatrically on Jin 427 venues, earning 832,271 in its first weekend, ranking fifteenth in the United States box office and last among the week's new releases.

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