It’s obvious that some of the girls are wearing wigs, and so it comes across more as dress-up for an 80s party rather than the real thing. However, the 80s setting never feels authentic in My Best Friend’s Exorcism. Given the popularity of Stranger Things, there’s been a keen desire to produce content centred on that time period.
Abby and Gretchen find themselves leaving behind the group to investigate an abandoned cabin, rumoured to be the site of a satanist ritual (the book takes place during the Satanic panic of the 80s). The four have a sleepover at Margaret’s family cabin, and a fun night of girlish antics gets interrupted by Wallace, who’s brought drugs and wants to make out with Margaret.Īgainst their better judgement, the girls partake in these psychedelic substances, and go skinny dipping.
Rounding up the friendship group is Margaret (Rachel Ogechi Kanu), the only one of the group who has a boyfriend, a horndog character named Wallace (Clayton Royal Johnson), and Glee (Cathy Ang), who quietly nurses a crush on Margaret. This becomes detrimental later on, since we aren’t particularly attached to these characters and their friendship to care that these bad things are happening to them. There isn’t enough time spent visually building up the friendship before the plot kicks in. How do we know? Well, the movie tells us, and they also have best friend keychains. Not because I’m one of those lit snobs always going on about how “the book is always better,” but due to the movie’s focus on the horror and comedy rather than the girls’ friendship.Ībby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) are best friends. The movie, however, is not quite on par with the book. After all, it’s one of my favourite horror books, and even though demonic possession is a key plotline, the book’s main focus was always the friendship between Abby and Gretchen. When I heard that Amazon Prime was adapting Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism, I was over the moon.
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