Stars: Michael Filipowich, Kate Tumanova, William McKinney, Jessica Morris, Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Braxton Davis, Sicily Fontaine, John Paul Sales, Luke Wright | Written and Directed by Tripp Weathers
Retired demon wrangler Damon Richter is pulled back into the game when his estranged daughter is possessed by the spirit responsible for destroying his life and family. Together with his ex-priest pal, the bearded, tattooed beach bum sets about putting his own supernatural abilities to good use. That is, of course, when he isn’t busy posing moodily and glowering from beneath his impressive beard, like an over-filtered Instagram celebrity.
Of all the horror subgenres, few lend themselves to low budget quite like the exorcism movie. Sure, there’s room for all the fancy special effects, pea soup and levitating demons that money can buy, but all you really need to make it work is a bed, some chains and a profanity-laced script.
Retired demon wrangler Damon Richter is pulled back into the game when his estranged daughter is possessed by the spirit responsible for destroying his life and family. Together with his ex-priest pal, the bearded, tattooed beach bum sets about putting his own supernatural abilities to good use. That is, of course, when he isn’t busy posing moodily and glowering from beneath his impressive beard, like an over-filtered Instagram celebrity.
Of all the horror subgenres, few lend themselves to low budget quite like the exorcism movie. Sure, there’s room for all the fancy special effects, pea soup and levitating demons that money can buy, but all you really need to make it work is a bed, some chains and a profanity-laced script.
- 5/26/2017
- by Joel Harley
- Nerdly
By Depressed Satan,
MoreHorror.com
You may call it a coincidence or merely Fate, but this time around, horror fans are about to witness two Exorcism movie coming to scare you in the same month. Yes! the month of May.
One is American Exorcism and another one is Islamic Exorcist.
To start with American Exorcism, directed by Tripp Weathers, the film tells the story of Damon Richter who thought he left the world of possessions, exorcisms, and evil behind until an old friend arrives with frightening information about his estranged daughter knowing that only his otherworldly skills can save her.
American Exorcism will release on VOD and Direct to Video on May 2nd.
Islamic Exorcist, directed by Faisal Saif, an International English Horror film talks about Shia Muslim and Sunni Muslims conflict of understanding where the lives of an Indian couple are devastated when their adopted daughter becomes possessed by a demonic force.
MoreHorror.com
You may call it a coincidence or merely Fate, but this time around, horror fans are about to witness two Exorcism movie coming to scare you in the same month. Yes! the month of May.
One is American Exorcism and another one is Islamic Exorcist.
To start with American Exorcism, directed by Tripp Weathers, the film tells the story of Damon Richter who thought he left the world of possessions, exorcisms, and evil behind until an old friend arrives with frightening information about his estranged daughter knowing that only his otherworldly skills can save her.
American Exorcism will release on VOD and Direct to Video on May 2nd.
Islamic Exorcist, directed by Faisal Saif, an International English Horror film talks about Shia Muslim and Sunni Muslims conflict of understanding where the lives of an Indian couple are devastated when their adopted daughter becomes possessed by a demonic force.
- 4/28/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
There’s something about the fall and the beginning of the school year that forces us to crave weightier matters. Popcorn nonsense like Independence Day Resurgence makes way for more thoughtful science fiction fare. While a lot of attention was devoted to the serious Arrival, there was another offering that had some strong themes undercut by weak execution.
From producer Ridley Scott came Morgan, out this week from 20th Century Home Entertainment. The film, starring Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Toby Jones, and Paul Giamatti, came and went in a blink so don’t be surprised you don’t recall it.
Today, in our world, scientists are actively growing organs and meat in test tubes, perfecting the process before unleashing their work on society. In Morgan, things have progressed much further, having developed Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) in an isolated lab. Coming to check it out is corporate risk assessor Lee Weathers...
From producer Ridley Scott came Morgan, out this week from 20th Century Home Entertainment. The film, starring Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Toby Jones, and Paul Giamatti, came and went in a blink so don’t be surprised you don’t recall it.
Today, in our world, scientists are actively growing organs and meat in test tubes, perfecting the process before unleashing their work on society. In Morgan, things have progressed much further, having developed Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) in an isolated lab. Coming to check it out is corporate risk assessor Lee Weathers...
- 12/14/2016
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
★★★☆☆ Ridley Scott's influence weighs heavily on the concept and themes of Morgan, the debut feature by his son, Luke. The premise - scientists create a part-clone, part-android cybernetic being - is pure Blade Runner, and the small cast and paranoid claustrophobia of the remote setting consciously invokes Alien. Even corporate interloper Lee Weathers' (Kate Mara) distant iciness is reminiscent of Charlize Theron's turn in 2012's Prometheus. Luke Scott has a rich, if variable, science fiction heritage to draw on, but unfortunately the sins of the father are very much borne by the son. Flaws that have frequently plagued Scott the Elder's work are equally as prevalent in his son's film.
- 9/10/2016
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Eschewing the compelling Sf questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous. I’m “biast” (pro): desperate for movies about women; big Sf geek
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tips for young filmmakers hoping to break out from under the shadow of their famous filmmaker daddies with their directorial debuts: Don’t make a movie that invites comparison to one of Daddy’s best known, best loved, and just plain best movies. And if you must do that, consider ensuring that your movie compares favorably to Daddy’s movie.
Ps: Luke Scott, son of Ridley, is not that young. (He’s 48.) And his directorial debut, Morgan, does not compare favorably to Blade Runner. And the comparisons are inevitable. Morgan thinks it’s riffing on an intriguing ambiguity of Blade Runner,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tips for young filmmakers hoping to break out from under the shadow of their famous filmmaker daddies with their directorial debuts: Don’t make a movie that invites comparison to one of Daddy’s best known, best loved, and just plain best movies. And if you must do that, consider ensuring that your movie compares favorably to Daddy’s movie.
Ps: Luke Scott, son of Ridley, is not that young. (He’s 48.) And his directorial debut, Morgan, does not compare favorably to Blade Runner. And the comparisons are inevitable. Morgan thinks it’s riffing on an intriguing ambiguity of Blade Runner,...
- 9/5/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The core premise of Morgan, that of a laboratory made human striking out against it’s creators, is nothing new. We’ve seen it thousands of times of before, from Frankenstein to the last year’s Ex Machina, but this debut feature from Luke ‘son of Ridley’ Scott does attempt to make the premise it’s own, if it doesn’t always stick the landing. To delve deeper into the story, Kate Mara is Lee Weathers, a corporate trouble shooter set to a remote lab to determine whether or not Morgan (Anya Taylor Joy), a bio engineered artificial intelligence who has exceeded the expectations of her creators, is a danger to the world after a ‘tantrum’ leaves one of her handlers seriously injured. There’s nothing much more to the narrative than that, and the biggest problem is that screen writer Seth Owen doesn’t really develop the numerous interesting ideas he throws at us,...
- 9/3/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Warning: spoilers ahead! In Morgan, the female-dominated sci-fi horror flick hit theaters on Sept. 2, Kate Mara's character eventually sustains wounds that would render any average human being incapacitated at best. Despite a gaping, bloody wound caving in her abdomen, she's eventually, miraculously able to overcome the film's startlingly real-looking artificial human (Anya Taylor-Joy) without bleeding out, and lives to see another day. This annoying trope isn't anything new - there comes a certain point in every horror or action movie where the hero receives a stab wound to the gut or a few bullets here and there, but manages to brush them off as if nothing had happened. Though brilliantly cast, Morgan certainly doesn't break any new ground with its "scientists create monster, monster goes rogue" storyline in the way that last year's Ex Machina did. What it does do, however, is give an otherwise run-of-the-mill cliché a clever spin.
- 9/2/2016
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Ryan Lambie Published Date Friday, September 2, 2016 - 17:36
Wears a hoodie. Plays her music at an excruciatingly high volume. Fed up of being cooped up indoors. Glowers at authority figures with simmering hostility. Yes, Morgan’s just your average teenager, really - apart from the small detail that she’s a genetically-engineered super-being with powers of precognition and an unaccountable affinity for martial arts.
Morgan, played with pleasing intensity by Anya-Taylor Joy, resides behind bullet-proof perspex in a concrete bunker deep underground. Created for hazy purposes by a futuristic corporation, Morgan’s only five years old, but her rapid rate of growth means she looks much older. Over those five years, the scientists charged with looking after and monitoring Morgan have formed an emotional attachment to the super-powered youth; among them you’ll find Dr Simon Ziegler (Toby Jones), her surrogate father figure, and Amy (Rose Leslie), who becomes a kind of big sister.
Wears a hoodie. Plays her music at an excruciatingly high volume. Fed up of being cooped up indoors. Glowers at authority figures with simmering hostility. Yes, Morgan’s just your average teenager, really - apart from the small detail that she’s a genetically-engineered super-being with powers of precognition and an unaccountable affinity for martial arts.
Morgan, played with pleasing intensity by Anya-Taylor Joy, resides behind bullet-proof perspex in a concrete bunker deep underground. Created for hazy purposes by a futuristic corporation, Morgan’s only five years old, but her rapid rate of growth means she looks much older. Over those five years, the scientists charged with looking after and monitoring Morgan have formed an emotional attachment to the super-powered youth; among them you’ll find Dr Simon Ziegler (Toby Jones), her surrogate father figure, and Amy (Rose Leslie), who becomes a kind of big sister.
- 9/2/2016
- Den of Geek
Many storytellers have used science fiction to question human existence. Even if you haven’t read Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, you know the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his creation. You know of a scientist – I’ll leave calling him “mad” up to you – and his search to understand life and in doing so how he magically creates new life. You know of a tragic creature who is thrust into a world that is both fascinated and yet repelled by it. Though many would call the Frankenstein creature a him instead of an it, Kate Mara’s character Lee Weathers would be quick to correct you. Apparently artificial life should not be given proper pronouns, and while Luke Scott’s feature film debut seems ready to address the contemporary concerns over gender labels and life existing outside male and female labels, Morgan regresses into yet another forgettable attempt at...
- 9/1/2016
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Morgan, which hits theaters on September 02, recently debuted a new trailer that turned quite a few heads. If you were impressed, how do you feel after learning that the trailer was created by Ibm's vey own A.I., Watson, who previously gained fame by defeating world-class chess champions and even won a few Jeopardy contests? Ibm Research and Machine Vision's John Smith recently told ASmarterPlanet.com about the collaboration. "Fox approached Ibm and they said well we have this movie coming out, it's called Morgan, and it's an A.I. horror thriller, and then what Fox asked was could Watson analyze the movie and generate a trailer automatically, so we thought let's send Watson to film school." You can see the trailer below and judge Watson's handiwork for yourself. Chess, then Jeopardy and now film trailers...how long do we have before Watson becomes our robot overlord? Kate Mara plays Lee Weathers,...
- 9/1/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
What happens when an artificially created humanoid being, genetically altered and DNA enhanced, begins to think and act out on its own? Such is the premise of the new sci-fi thriller Morgan, which hits theatres tomorrow.
Marking the feature film debut of director Luke Scott, the movie explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it follows a group of scientists who finally manage to create a perfect specimen that they name Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy). As their creation grows to young adulthood in just five years, she begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom – and ends up attacking one of the scientists.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman,...
Marking the feature film debut of director Luke Scott, the movie explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it follows a group of scientists who finally manage to create a perfect specimen that they name Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy). As their creation grows to young adulthood in just five years, she begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom – and ends up attacking one of the scientists.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Kit Bowen
- We Got This Covered
Sci-fi thriller Morgan, which hits theatres this Friday, marks the directorial debut of Luke Scott and takes a look at what happens when an artificially created humanoid being, genetically altered and DNA enhanced, begins to think and act out on its own.
The plot explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it focuses on an AI named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) who grows to young adulthood in just five years and begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom, which leads to an attack on one of the scientists who created her.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman rather than an “it” and so try to justify her...
The plot explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it focuses on an AI named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) who grows to young adulthood in just five years and begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom, which leads to an attack on one of the scientists who created her.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman rather than an “it” and so try to justify her...
- 9/1/2016
- by Kit Bowen
- We Got This Covered
Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is in corporate risk assessment, which does not fully explain why she’s driving out to the middle of nowhere to evaluate a top-secret science project. But she should realize when she passes through a forest that closely resembles the one where many of 20th Century Fox’s genre movies take place (usually Canada; this time, Ireland) that the scientists of Morgan are up to no good. Then again, the scientists don’t seem to realize it either. The group, led by Dr. Lui Cheng (Michelle Yeoh) and Dr. Simon Ziegler (Toby Jones), speaks protectively of its subject, Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), everyone reminding themselves to use the pronoun “it” rather than “her.”
Morgan is designated an “it” because she was created in a lab. She is technically 5 years old, but looks about 17, complete with the practical special effects that are Taylor-Joy’s gigantic, piercing ...
Morgan is designated an “it” because she was created in a lab. She is technically 5 years old, but looks about 17, complete with the practical special effects that are Taylor-Joy’s gigantic, piercing ...
- 9/1/2016
- by Jesse Hassenger
- avclub.com
The question of the existence of a soul has been one of the prevailing interests of modern science-fiction cinema. Films like Ex Machina, Her, Upstream Color, and now Luke Scott’s debut, Morgan, have have all prodded at the subject, keeping pace with societal paranoia about the obsolescence of humanity. This is far from a new idea. After all, the director’s own father, Ridley Scott, was exploring the Turing test more than three decades ago. But Morgan is worthy of conversation not for its achievements, but rather the way its failures and generalities characterize how far the genre has come.
Artificial intelligence is no longer the final frontier and Seth W. Owen’s script doesn’t just recognize that A.I’s are being made, it talks about previous models that didn’t live up to expectations. Modern sci-fi has moved past the point of pure invention to a goal of exceptionalism.
Artificial intelligence is no longer the final frontier and Seth W. Owen’s script doesn’t just recognize that A.I’s are being made, it talks about previous models that didn’t live up to expectations. Modern sci-fi has moved past the point of pure invention to a goal of exceptionalism.
- 8/30/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
No one in Luke Scott’s “Morgan” acts like a human, which is fine enough for some of his characters — after all, this is a film about a genetically engineered being run totally amok — but becomes slightly more problematic once the film attempts to dig deeply into themes relating to human emotion, human behavior, human fallibility…the list goes on and on. “Morgan,” for all its ambitious sci-fi trappings, is really a film about how being human is hard and messy and weird, a message that’s difficult to deliver by way of wooden lines, worse delivery and a series of cheap, gotcha! “twists” that do its audience no favors.
Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is something of a fixer — a “risk management consultant” for a shady corporation who seems to only be dispatched when things have already gone way past risky (mention is made throughout the film of some sort...
Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is something of a fixer — a “risk management consultant” for a shady corporation who seems to only be dispatched when things have already gone way past risky (mention is made throughout the film of some sort...
- 8/30/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
If Morgan were a Crayola crayon, it’s cutesy name would be “Cement Mixer Grey.” If it were a culinary dish, it’d be a baked potato without a single topping (not even accidental ketchup drips from an overloaded hot dog). If it were a cinematic endeavor – which it is – Luke Scott’s sci-fi thriller would be a lazy, knee-jerk response to Ex Machina‘s provocative brilliance, relentless in its genre irreverence. There’s a time and a place for a such drab thrills like this, and they’re best enjoyed in small television bites while you glance up from your daily chores. They’re background noise at best, never striving to break its predictable mold.
Young Anya Taylor-Joy stars a Morgan, an artificial lifeform being studied and raised in an isolated, backwoods laboratory. Under the guidance of Dr. Lui Cheng’s (Michelle Yeoh) devoted team of researchers, Morgan – an...
Young Anya Taylor-Joy stars a Morgan, an artificial lifeform being studied and raised in an isolated, backwoods laboratory. Under the guidance of Dr. Lui Cheng’s (Michelle Yeoh) devoted team of researchers, Morgan – an...
- 8/30/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Here’s a stack of exclusive shots from indie thriller American Exorcism. Shock just got word of a new indie possession horror film by way of superhero saga that might be of interest to readers who tire of the same of old satanic shenanigans in their theological shockers. Director Tripp Weathers’ American Exorcism is in post-production…
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- 7/16/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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