The Feminist Review

This fairly ridiculous film includes a barrage of violent sexual messages. The movie isn’t scary, but the sexualization of a young girl is horrific. Sexual violence is made light of, to some extent, as she tells her mother “fu*k me” “lick me” (while she stabs herself in the groin with a cross). The male demon inside her claims this young girl as a sex object, telling the priest “stick your co*k up her a*s.”

The mother is strong, fierce and cusses up a storm herself. She also gets hysterical a lot, which is fine for women to do, but traditionally a way to undermine women’s authority.

Filed under: movies on March 9th, 2008 by Anna Lisa