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Made in Victoria, Australia, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism is about a young married couple named Lara (Georgia Eyers) and Ron (Dan Ewing). In some ways, you can see the way that she's acting -- nude dancing under the moon, violent behavior and mood swings -- as a mental health issue. Or maybe she's possessed. That's the way her husband is leaning and he's nearly begging Dr. Walsh (Eliza Matengu) to sign off on an exorcism. He's so devoted to getting one, he even gets an unsanctioned exorcist and that's when things go off the rails.

The man who Ron gets to exorcise his wife is Daniel (Tim Pocock). He tells Ron not to give his wife any food or drink and not to believe anything she tells him, because she's no longer his wife. She's of the Devil. Then they invite members of his church to scream at Lara and attempt to physically beat the demon out of her.

This movie is based on the real case of Joan Vollmer, a Victoria woman whose husband Ralph claimed would take on the shape of animals and act like a wanton woman, as well as speaking in demonic voices. Over a four-day period, assisted by a neighbor and phone instructions from his pastor, she was tied to a chair and prayed over while being denied food and water. Other church members soon visited and held her down while her eyes were kept open to witness the prayers. After days of slapping Joan in the face, two demons remained. Matthew Nuske joined the group and he led the group in destroying Joan's greenhouse, all of her flower beds and wrapping the house seven times in clear wrap. Then, he smashed Joan's head into walls before having five people sit on her body for hours, crushing her internal organs and giving her a heart attack. The pastor came at this point, as a message from God told him that he could just lay hands on the dead Joan and bring. Her back to life. Two days later, she was still dead.

Neighbor Leanne Reichenbach got four months for manslaughter and false imprisonment. Church member David Klingner received three months, exorcist Matthew Nuske was found guilty of false imprisonment and received a suspended sentence and Ralph Vollmer was convicted of false imprisonment and reckless injury. He served no jail time, moved to Queensland and remarried.

Not only could this movie happen, it already has.

Directed by Nick Kozakis and written by Alexander Angliss-Wilson and Sarah Baker, this isn't the movie for you if you're looking for stuttery editing, herky jerky mannerisms and spinning heads. This is a more psychological exploration of how demonic man and religious belief can be.

How come the same 2 reviews are printed over and over with just slight word changes ... and of course using different account names?

Since it keeps bringing up people involved in the picture as savants in their field, I can only assume the reviewers were involved in the picture.

While that makes it seem like everyone believed it was a cinematic masterpiece, the 5.7 overall rating paints a different picture.

It follows the path everyone expects if you realize it's not a horror story at all but rather based on a real episode that happened 30 years ago in Australia. A broken-down ghost town setting and a health system that failed by letting out a woman with extreme bizarre behaviors led to a cult being called in for an exorcism that had never actually performed an exorcism. You can guess the results.

Does it make for an interesting movie? Well a 5 or so, and a lot of disappointed people who thought they were getting something more.