Exorcists

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRussell Crowe’s latest film The Pope’s Exorcist has been condemned by The International Association of Exorcists (IAE).In the trailer released last month, the Sony Pictures movie claims to be “inspired by actual files of father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican”.“There is actually a real job called the Chief Exorcist in the Vatican,” Crowe explains in the film’s production…

Most professions are flattered by the attentions of Hollywood. Yet a body representing the real-life practitioners depicted in new Russell Crowe horror The Pope’s Exorcist have condemned the film as “unreliable … splatter cinema”.The film’s plot – which posters declare was “inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican” – sees Crowe play Amorth, tasked with investigating a young boy’s possession. In the process, he uncovers a “centuries-old conspiracy” that the Vatican has…

A new kind of ghost buster is coming to comics in April. Writer Steve Orlando and artist Sebastian Piriz have teamed for Exorcists Never Die, a six-issue series that follows a pair of “combat exorcists” on a mission into the depths of Hell. Published by Max Cave Studios, the series is lettered by Carlos M. Mangual, and will sport covers by Piriz and Paul Fry. Here’s how Mad Cave describes Exorcists Never Die: Syd Miller and Ellen Blair are the world’s two premiere combat exorcists — the only problem? After a nuclear…

David Gordon Green has wrapped his Blumhouse-produced Halloween trilogy with the release of Halloween Ends. Though Ends was divisive, one thing is for sure; the film is a loving nod to the series' original creator, John Carpenter's entire filmography. Green will next tackle another classic horror franchise -- The Exorcist.  Considering how involved Carpenter has been in Green's Michael Meyers trilogy (he composed all of the music for the trilogy), many have been wondering if the franchise's OG director William Friedkin…

The Exorcist is considered one of the scariest movies not just of the 1970s, but of all time, and memorable horror stars have been wowing audiences of late with big comebacks – like how the recent Halloween sequel trilogy brought back Jamie Lee Curtis. Ellen Burstyn, who played the mother of the demonically-possessed child in the 1973 horror film, is now becoming a part of this trend by starring in the Exorcist sequel that is scheduled to come out next year, and she has revealed the surprising and awesome reason why she…