Fresh
Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip-service to the need for scares.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Go back before the beginning, to the place where evil was born.
2005 · 1h 56m · R
Horror
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Overview
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.
Director and cast
- Paul Schrader Director
- Stellan Skarsgård as Father Lankester Merrin
- Gabriel Mann as Father Francis
- Clara Bellar as Rachel Lesno
- Billy Crawford as Cheche
- Ralph Brown as Sergeant Major
- Israel Aduramo as Jomo
- Andrew French as Chuma
- Antonie Kamerling as Kessel
- Julian Wadham as Major Granville
- Eddie Osei as Emekwi
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
30%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The frights, the scares, they just weren't there.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
It's a good, thoughtful horror picture -- and thiiis close to being a very good one.
David Edelstein, Slate
Fresh
Exorcism aside, Dominion is well-acted, handsomely photographed and hauntingly scored.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Rotten
The Schrader variation is awfully dull, with scant evidence of the sort of things that make horror movies attractive -- like mounting suspense and spine-tingling creepiness and, oh yeah, the element of horror.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
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