The Pope’s Exorcist stars the Oscar-winning actor as Father Gabriele Amorth, an exorcist who squares off against the devil
, William Friedkin’s blockbusting, genre-transforming horror landmark that has been parodied, sequelized , and firmly embedded in the collective cultural consciousness. And now along comestrying on an Italian accent as Father Gabriele Amorth, apparently a real-life exorcist of some renown.
Yes, there are real-life exorcists, and this was actually key to the impact of Friedkin’s film. He treated the gruesomeness with documentary-like veracity, creating the illusion that what you were seeing was really happening.tries to follow in these footsteps, and occasionally even succeeds, playing with ideas of faith and doubt and belief, parsing the differences between mere psychological disturbance and, you know,. In the process, it also gets a little silly.
Which doesn’t mean they can’t keep trying. It’s 1987, and this time the dark lord’s victims are an American mom and her two kids , newly-arrived in Castille, Spain, to fix up and flip an old abbey that belonged to the family of her late husband. They carry baggage — husband/dad died in a grisly car accident a year ago, and the son, Henry, hasn’t spoken since. He is weighed down by guilt, and in this universe, guilt, or, rather, sin, is what the devil feeds on.
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