{"id":21165,"date":"2016-10-13T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21165"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:36:42","slug":"repossessed-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/repossessed-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Repossessed (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"repossessed1990\"<\/a>I guess if you\u2019re going to try to spoof a hit horror movie, you might as well bring with you the star of said film. For better and for worse, Linda Blair is now and will always be associated with her star making turn as Regan in \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d Sadly, she\u2019s more known for the movie, than being a strong actress who gave a strong and compelling performance. Blair uses the chance starring in \u201cRepossessed\u201d to burn the whole motherfucking kit and caboodle to the ground hamming it up big time in a role that\u2019s basically Regan 2.0 if Regan became a doting housewife revisited by Pazuzu. This time, though, she\u2019s named Nancy. Get it? Nancy Regan?<\/p>\n

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Director Logan must have loved \u201cAirplane!\u201d because he tacks on a bunch of gratuitous nudity, and tries very hard to garner laughs out of goofy word play, all with Nielsen involved. His character\u2019s last name is Mayii (pronounced: May I). So, if you found \u201cSurely, you can\u2019t be serious,\u201d funny, prepare for almost every character to declare: \u201cFather Mayii?\u201d To which he replies \u201cYes, you may.\u201d Get it? \u201cRepossessed\u201d has a golden opportunity to build some genuine comedy out of the original film, but every single joke falls absolutely flat. Even Linda Blair doesn\u2019t have much to do, which is a shame because she has the chance to show her comedy chops here once and for all.<\/p>\n

The best she\u2019s given is a clunky joke about split pea soup, and transforming in to a giant ice cream cone as she screeches \u201cLick me! Lick me!\u201d If that\u2019s not enough, since most movies are obligated to be at least ninety minutes, \u201cRepossessed\u201d completely stops its narrative to a screeching halt to feature a long laughless montage of Father Mayii working out in a gym to prepare to exorcise Nancy. On the plus side Blair is charming and still a sight for sore eyes, even when she\u2019s committing to a terrible head spinning gag, and the movie itself is very nineties, with gags about Geraldo, Tammy Fay Baker, Oliver North, and there are appearances from popular nineties sports personalities Gene Okerlund and Jesse Ventura.<\/p>\n

Aside from being virtually unfunny trash, \u201cRepossessed\u201d comes way too late in to the game. Especially since by 1990, about eighty films tried to copy \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d formula and were inadvertently more comical than Bob Logan\u2019s film ever manages to be. \u201cThe Heretic\u201d included.<\/p>\n

All things considered, I\u2019ll always have a place in my rotten heart for Linda Blair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess if you\u2019re going to try to spoof a hit horror movie, you might as well bring with you the star of said film. For better and for worse, Linda Blair is now and will always be associated with her star making turn as Regan in \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d Sadly, she\u2019s more known for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,477,1362,602,813,897,898,973,1008],"class_list":["post-21165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-leslie-nielsen","tag-linda-blair","tag-r","tag-satanic","tag-satire","tag-spoof","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22607,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165\/revisions\/22607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}