If Hollywood is to be believed, life as a Catholic priest at the turn of the 20th century involved spending 75 percent of your time sitting in your office while people brought troubled women to you ...

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‘The Ritual’ wants “just the facts, ma’am” when it comes to depicting the details of a real-life exorcism. Most depictions of exorcisms are violent. The possessed is forced to endure painful internal ...

In Earling, Iowa in 1928, Capuchin priest Theophilus Riesinger performed an exorcism on Emma Schmidt, whose condition had worsened since a previous attempt to cast out demons in 1912. This incident is ...

Not since Paul Schrader’s ill-starred “Exorcist” entry “Dominion” in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite so seriously as “The Ritual.” Based on a real-life case, like director ...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A young priest who's recently suffered a personal tragedy and is struggling with issues of faith teams up with an older, veteran priest to perform an exorcism ...

Movie exorcisms often involve a priest double act, a doubter and a devotee. Because barebones indie horror The Ritual barely exists outside of its formula, it’s no exception: Its straightlaced Father ...

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Dan Stevens also stars in a film that doesn't offer nearly enough spectacle to justify its adherence to generic exorcism plot beats. When Emma Schmidt (Abigail Cowen) begins experiencing night terrors ...