'That Little Motherf—er Gets Me Every Time': Russell Crowe Wonderfully Recalls How Ryan Gosling Made Him Crack Up While Making The Nice Guys -- I Just Found Out Russell Crowe Turned Down Playing A Lead In Lord Of The Rings. Does He Regret It? While Spooky Season is technically still a few months away, genre fans are getting a number of exciting scary movies this summer. The anticipated prequel A Quiet Place : Day One is arriving at the end of the month, and July and August include exciting upcoming horror films including the critically acclaimed Longlegs , MaXXXine , Cuckoo , Trap , and Alien: Romulus .
Arriving before any of those titles, however, is writer/director Joshua John Miller's The Exorcism , which is presently getting a notably mixed reaction from critics. In the film (which has no relation to The Pope's Exorcist ), Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller – an actor who has signed on to star in a horror movie and finds himself slowly unraveling. While there is concern that there is substance abuse to blame for his behavior, the truth may actually be more in the supernatural realm.
As you can probably tell, there is a bit of metatextuality at play here, but according to Emma Kiely from Collider , the comedic commentary and horror vibes don't properly play off of each other. She writes, The first half runs on the steam of this meta-comedy, but it loses all speed when it tries to become a dense, dark, and heavy horror drama. Miller has proven he's a natural with satire.
