Every year brings new Christmas movies with their often plentiful and phony Christmas cheer.
In fact, most of the recent ones released on streamingsuch as2023s less-than-esteemed bunchseem designed expressly for their disposability.
Theyre content as sincere as polyester Christmas roping strung around the companys copier in the back.
Youre meant to watch them with one eye on the phone, and no Christmas Spirit in your heart.
And then some… some Christmas movies made you feel more like Scrooge the night before.
Staring at a grave marked by your name and the abyss that lays beneath it.
They make you appreciate that the final judgment (if you fancy such thoughts) awaits.
Or at least spider-walk it.
It was a day late, but hardly a dollar short.
The only wide December release to do better is James CameronsTitanic, and that opened nearly 25 years later.
But unlike the film about the sinking boat,The Exorcistactually is a Christmas movie.
The film is even set adjacently to Christmastime, although the picture never draws attention to this fact.
The films screenwriter did, however.
To see ourselves as animal and ugly, to reject the possibility that God could love us.
They give their lives so that poor little Regan will be spared.
By freeing her, the film ends on hope of order, goodness, and Christian charity restored.
Perhaps theres a double feature in that.
