Hey people,

well ive seen some trailers of the new movie that is coming out this friday or next friday...cant remember. and it looks pretty creepy.

anyway, i had never heard of this case before. i was just wondering if any of you on here had ever come across her story before or have done any digging around lately on it?

Kind Regards,
DigitalGrl

I have to say that this is one of the only trailers lately that has caught my eye.

Dunno how well it will be though.

This is not usually my sort of movie but perhaps I will have to go see it. I was in Würzburg, Germany in 1976. Military family and that was the last year of a three year tour.

I did not hear about it but at that time I was young and wrapped up in my own life. But I am sure the movie will bring back some memories, it is a very pretty place.


A.T
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Jeremiah25, the links you gave really goes to show that there are people that take their religion to very extents of murder. It is always sad to hear somethin about that.

When i was in the Mid western U.S. a few years back i herd of a woman that thought her baby was posessed and she......

....well i dont want to get into details, not real sure if i will get banned for saying graphic stuff.

But overall she Gruesomly murdered her child on the side walk outside of her house screaming that the devil was in her baby and she was drivin it out.

Needless to say she got many years in prison if not life. It was horrible, but it was even more dispicable because she did it outside, where children have proably played there...........goes to show that the ones accusing others of being possessed may very well be posessed themselves.

I caught the preview trailer for this flick as well, and while it looks interesting, I'm not sure what ground it can cover that the original "Exorcist" didn't already do. I don't see how it can be as scary. It's purportedly based on a true story, but how closely based is anyone's guess. Still, I noticed that Tom Wilkinson is in it, and he usually doesn't have anything to do with second-rate productions ( "in The Bedroom," "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind," even "Batman Begins"---all great flicks featuring Wilkinson ), so I do have an expectation that it will at least be good.
Interestingly, authors as diverse as leftist "conspiracy theorist" John Judge and right-wing "pro-white" author Gregory Krupey have both written commentaries on how the goal of the original "exorcist" film was to help destory the 60s counterculture and scare people back into church at the time of its release in 1971, noting that the author of the story, William Peter Blatty, was a Jesuit Catholic formwer priest who served in psychological operations during the Viet Nam war, quite possible as part of the notorious Phoenix Program. I found their reasoning behind this claim to be fairly well-argued and presented, and in the wake of the Mason Family murders and Altamont, it could well be that "The Exorcist" did indeed help to scare off those seeking alternative spiritual and societal paths back into the church, particualrly the Catholic church, which saw a marked upward spike in attendance in the early 1970s after the film's release.
I highly doubt that there is a similar somewhat sinister motive behind this newest exorcism flick, but you never know---
---Ryan

I'm not sure what ground it can cover that the original "Exorcist" didn't already do.

From what I understand, this film focuses more on the trial that followed the actual exorcism, wherein the parents of the young woman and the two priests who performed the exorcism were put on trial for her manslaughter. I believe that the exorcism will be portrayed as a series of flashbacks, probably arising through the course of the trial.

[edit on 31/8/05 by Jeremiah25]

That sounds like an interesting plot device, I noticed that the movie was not "R" rated, so I would imagine the violence/gore/horror will be somewhat downplayed in comparison to other exorcism films, so the plotting structure you mention makes perfect sense. I guess it's salted to open on Friday, September 9th. I still think "V For Vendetta" looks to be the premier flick of the fall season, if it's even one tenth as good as the comic it should be fantastic, but this looks and sounds fairly promising, as well, and I'll probably catch it on its first weekend of release.
---Ryan

I'm not sure I see getting Catholics to come back to church as particularly "sinister."

Anyways, it would be a little tough to argue that Hollywood is just a willing shill for Catholic values.