Tag: possession

Their streaming “exorcism of the week” show a modest but stable hit, it is apparent to producer Drew that The Cleansing Hour has peaked, that the undeniable appeal

The streets are dark as the ambulance heads hopelessly towards the Metro General Hospital of Fulton County, the sheets of the morgue are white, and the dead man

No matter how prepared you are for it, no matter how expected it has been, nobody can truly know how they will react to a death, especially when

The words and images of the Catholic rite of exorcism are familiar from dozens of horror films, from the most famous of them all, The Exorcist itself, through

There is a dignified order to the rites of exorcism; investigations by the church, demonstrations that there is indeed demonic possession, the approval and sanction of senior members

It is the duty of the police to investigate, calmly and rationally, to obtain evidence, to interview witnesses, to examine a situation fully and prosecute a case based

It opens with a tortured glissando of strings and a passage from the Bible, the verses of the Passover from Exodus; outside where the sun gently illuminates the

Life is strange and inexplicable for Paul, a priest whose shaken faith offers him little comfort, his wife terminally ill, her brain tumour metastasising. Her doctor advising that

Recently announced to direct the big screen adaptation of Marvel’s Doctor Strange, the career of Scott Derrickson can most kindly be described as erratic. There was little positive

Writer/director Andrew Niccol once crafted a modern classic of science fiction cinema, both in the sense that is a film that has remained untouched by the years which