Written for the screen by Jenna Lamia and directed by Damon Thomas, the narrative centers around Abby Rivers (Elsie Fisher) and her titular best friend Gretchen (Amiah Miller), who, after a misguided exploration of a supposedly haunted building out in the woods, falls into the clutches of a wicked entity hell-bent on destroying the lives of everyone around her. (The subgenre’s progenitor The Exorcist is, first and foremost, a Catholic propaganda film that spawned countless imitators, all rife with the same black and white, good versus evil morality). The 2022 film My Best Friend’s Exorcism, adapted from the 2016 novel of the same name by Grady Hendrix, enters the much-bloated cinematic lexicon of demonic possession movies, but with much more humor and far less religious oppressiveness.
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