![]() At worst, the outworn trope degenerates into sacrilegious and grotesque parodies of Catholic religious practice. In most cases, the familiar big-screen sight of men in clerical collars battling demons - or in this instance, the Antichrist himself - swerves at least into broad caricature. ![]() With, perhaps, little funds for gore, director Mark Neveldine focuses instead on the Satan-subduing rite - always a popular spectacle with moviegoers - that takes up his film's final 15 minutes. Well, in the case of "The Vatican Tapes" (Lionsgate), things could, conceivably, have been worse. NEW YORK (CNS) - A low-budget exorcism flick whose lurid title attempts to mask bad plotting and wooden characters.
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