But that film was fiction. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), his new documentary, 45 years later, is the real thing. In the compelling The Devil and Father Amorth ...

It was the real deal, Bowdern told Blatty, after the author sought him out for research on the novel. (Blatty, who died in 2017, appears via interviews done in 2010 and 1998; Bowdern died in 1983.) ...

As The Last Exorcism begins, we follow him through a day-in-the-life, shot from the crew's handheld P.O.V., which the movie retains.

The real theme of “The Devil and Father Amorth” is the degree to which people now believe that exorcism is real. The belief didn’t begin yesterday.

Real Housewives of Orange County: The exorcism of Gina Gina Kirschenheiter, left, with Emily Simpson on “The Real Housewives of Orange County” episode that aired Wednesday, March 23, 2022.

I had only that camera running and I was about two feet away from them, probably even closer. What was the experience of witnessing a real exorcism so close up like? It was terrifying.

Then, after everything seems to go as planned, the real horrors begin. The Last Exorcism is a horror film that utilizes both the commonplace jump scares but also one that builds a terrific atmosphere.

The Last Exorcism is a very good exorcism film I think. Daniel Stamm had a great idea about making it like a documentary. It was straight to camera. Iris Barr played the documentarian.

Well, the flick's director is back and ready to cause some new nightmares in a documentary that covers a real life exorcism—and it's seriously scary. Read more: These 10 movies are too scary to ...