BA_Harrison
My original viewing of Repossessed, back in 1990 (yes, I was one of those who stupidly paid to see this garbage at the cinema), was an experience far more disturbing than my first viewing of The Exorcist, the film it sets out to spoof (only 17 years too late): Leslie Nielsen's desperately unfunny antics and Linda Blair besmirching her own legacy prove far more difficult to endure than anything in William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic.Written and directed by Bob 'Meatballs 4' Logan, Repossessed is a succession of quick-fire gags that repeatedly fail to hit the target. Dated topical jokes and crap sight gags abound, Ned Beatty's career hits an all-time-low with a role as a TV evangelist, and wrestler Jesse Ventura proves even more cringe-worthy than he was in Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (also 1990—what a great year that was for terrible Jesse Ventura movies!).It really is hard to believe how anyone ever considered any of this funny: the film makes the Scary Movie series seem like comedy gold by comparison, which is no mean feat. The finale, where Nielsen defeats the devil through the power of rock and roll, miming badly to a god-awful song while imitating several famous musicians, must go down as one of the single-most embarrassing attempts at humour I have ever witnessed.
Aaron1375
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.
FilmFanInTheHouse
Repossessed (1990, Dir. Bob Logan) It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii (Nielsen) exorcised the devil from little Nancy Aglet (Blair), but now Nancy has grown up and has a family, the demon returns and repossesses Nancy. With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy (Starke) tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller (Beatty) plans to air the exorcism live on TV.Repossessed is one of the few spoof movies which actually focuses' on just one movie. Whilst there are a few jokes which only those who've seen the Exorcist would understand, Repossessed doesn't provide much to make it an excellent spoof movie.I hate Rock 'n' Roll! - Nancy Aglet (Linda Blair)
Andrew Daley (tigerboy-4)
Some reasons why this is one of the worst films ever made:1. Leslie Nielson is a great comic actor when deadpanning in absurd situations. For some reason, the makers of this monstrosity thought that he would be even funnier if he mugged and did double takes every 30 seconds. WRONG! Maybe a "funny" foreign accent would help? WRONG AGAIN! 2. The film was marketed as if it were in some way linked to the Police Squad/Naked Gun series; the poster even showed Nielson in a "Drebin" pose, wielding a crucifix and rosary beads. 3. The script was obviously the last thing anyone thought about: big joke number one; woman works out on apparatus; her breasts expand; her breasts explode! big joke number two: Linda Blair cooks dinner for her family and guess what? It's pea soup! 4.The production values are rock bottom; everything looks cheap or re-used.This is a really horrible piece of trash, one of the very few movies I felt ashamed of returning to my local rental store; AVOID!!
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