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The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 American supernatural horror legal drama film directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson.
A horror drama film about a lawyer defending a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Scott Derrickson
- 2005-09-09
- Anneliese Michel’s Original Diagnosis
- The Strange Behavior of The Girl “Possessed by A Demon”
- Why The Real Emily Rose Was Subjected to Torturous Exorcisms
- How Did Anneliese Michel Die?
- The Inspiration For The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- How Anneliese Michel Is Remembered Today
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After the second time she went into a trance, Anneliese Michel visited a neurologist who diagnosed her with temporal lobe epilepsy, a disorder that causes seizures, loss of memory, and experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. Temporal lobe epilepsy can also cause Geschwind syndrome, a disorder marked by hyperreligiosity. After her diagnosis...
Anneliese Michel and her family sought out priests to help her with her demonic possession, but all the clergy she approached rejected her requests, saying that she should seek medical help and that they needed the permission of a bishop anyway. At this point, Michel’s delusions had become extreme. Believing she was possessed, she ripped the clothe...
Exorcisms have existed in various cultures and religions for millennia, but the practice became popular in the Catholic Church in the 1500s with priests who would use the Latin phrase “Vade retro satana” (“Go back, Satan”) to expel demons from their mortal hosts. The practice of Catholic exorcism was codified in the Rituale Romanum, a book of Chris...
The demons argued with each other, with Hitler saying, “People are stupid as pigs. They think it’s all over after death. It goes on” and Judas saying Hitler was nothing but a “big mouth” who had “no real say” in Hell. Throughout these sessions, Anneliese Michel would frequently talk about “dying to atone for the wayward youth of the day and the apo...
Decades after the trial, the famous horror movie The Exorcism of Emily Rosewas released in 2005. Loosely based on Anneliese Michel’s story, the movie follows a lawyer (played by Laura Linney) who takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who allegedly performed a deadly exorcism on a young woman. Set in America in the modern day, the fi...
Other than her inspiration for a horror film, Anneliese Michel became an icon for some Catholics who felt modern, secular interpretations of the bible were distorting the ancient, supernatural truth it contains. “The surprising thing was that the people connected to Michel were all completely convinced that she had really been possessed,” remembers...
Anneliese Michel was a German woman who believed she was possessed by demons and underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites that killed her in 1976. Her story inspired the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which was based on her case and other historical events.
- Gabe Paoletti
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. 2005 | Maturity Rating:13+ | 1h 59m | Horror. An agnostic defense attorney is alarmed when she starts to believe her client -- a priest accused of negligent homicide after an exorcism gone wrong.
A movie review site for a horror film based on a true story of a priest accused of killing a girl during an exorcism. See critics' ratings, audience feedback, clips, trailers, and where to watch online.
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- Scott Derrickson
- PG-13
- Laura Linney
Release Date: September 9, 2005In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of a 19 year-old college fresh...
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Plagued by horrific visions, and tormented by sinister manifestations of evil while at university, the troubled nineteen-year-old college student, Emily Rose, resorts to exorcism, only to die a horrible death. Now, her family's priest, Father Richard Moore, finds himself charged with negligent homicide, defended by the atheist lawyer, Erin Bruner.
