The Ritual Review – 'Tired and overworked'

The Ritual Review – 'Tired and overworked'

If you’re telling a story that involves an old priest, a young priest and a possessed girl and you aren’t The Exorcist, you have taken on the kind of challenge that would terrify Beelzebub himself. Director David Midell has made a decent attempt on it here, and if the result ultimately feels like just another wannabe, he has at least assembled an interesting cast to stab at hell’s heart. This film is based, we are told repeatedly, on the most th…