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The Offering (2023): Pazuzu Got Some Competition

When I started reviewing  The Pope’s Exorcist  and then  turned the review into a comparison  between it and  The Exorcist: The Beginning , I also complained about how I felt that movies featuring demonic shenanigans were becoming stale. Well, my prayers were answered by  The Offering  (2023), whose Orthodox Jewish setting was an even bigger departure from the usual Catholic fare. Warning:  SPOILERS . Art has returned to New York with his non Jewish wife Claire, who’s pregnant with their first child, in the hopes of reconciling with his disapproving father, Saul. He also hopes to convince Saul to let him use his house/funeral home to be able to keep his and Claire’s new home, which is at risk of being taken away by the bank. To an already tense situation, the movie adds Heimish, a friend of Saul’s who doesn’t trust Art’s intentions, and a corpse with an engraved knife and a mysterious pendant. As the living argue, an ancient malignant force sneaks around, making them see and do things,

TV Review: Dororo (2019)

We weren’t quite sure where to put this, but since it has demons and this blog is where the demons are, we put it here. And what is ‘this’? A review of 2019 anime series  Dororo . We posted about it on social media while watching, but then we felt it deserved a longer review. Since we haven’t read the original manga or watched any previous adaptation, we’re going to focus only on this specific series. Needless to say, there will be  SPOILERS . Dororo  follows Hyakkimaru, who travels the country looking for demons to kill, and Dororo, a resourceful orphan who tags along after being saved by him. However, Hyakkimaru isn’t hunting demons out of a sense of duty - he wants the rest of the body that was taken from him at birth, 16 years ago, when his father, Lord Daigo Kagemitsu, made a deal with 12 demons as a way to fulfill his ambitions. As Hyakkimaru gets closer to his goal, the closer he gets to his family, a reunion that will be anything but happy. And that’s not the only problem - the