Yes, the movie presents a rather silly version of the church. But it's also, in many ways, a very flattering portrait.
is a swashbuckling tale of a heroic Italian priest lured into a battle with an ancient demon who has possessed an innocent child in a Spanish abbey. Based loosely on the real writings of the Rev.
condemning the film upon the trailer’s release. The movie played on “anxiety, restlessness, and fear” a press release from the organization contended, with unrealistic “striking physical and verbal manifestations” of the demon.Those assertions are undoubtedly true—it’s a horror movie, after all.
The real Gabriele Amorth was born in Italy in 1925, at a time when the age of exorcisms seemed in the distant past. Exorcisms peaked, historically speaking, during the European wars of religion in the 16centuries. In the 1700s, with the Enlightenment, Christians came to see demons as superstitious or even pagan elements of the faith; some Christians began to push for the ouster of the devil from the religion altogether.
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