Posted on 05/20/2016 7:18:44 AM PDT by NRx
William Friedkin, acclaimed director of “The Exorcist,” says he’s now seen the real thing — and filmed it.
Talking to an audience at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday, the 80-year-old filmmaker said that the Vatican invited him to film an exorcism earlier in May. The version he constructed for the 1973 supernatural horror film, Friedkin added, was not that far from the actual rite he recently documented.
“I don’t think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing thing,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. “I am not talking about some cult, I am talking about an exorcism by the Catholic Church in Rome.”
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Ref Malachi Martin
Hostage to the Devil
Case studies of exorcisms
This is real.
I read that book, yep it’s real all right.
The Vatican should share Austin’s city motto.
“Keepin’ the Vatican weird.”
I'd like to suggest that perhaps the socialist anti-Pope should be on the list to be exorcised.
My best friends mother made that pea soup and oatmeal mix. She was a great chef and also did fried chicken for KFC.
I miss her. Never got to see her son become a Dr.
Yikes! Just after I was getting over the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz..................ha!
"THE BED....IS ON....MY FOOT!!!!"
"THE BED....IS ON....MY FOOT!!!!"
"THE BED....IS ON....MY FOOT!!!!"
"THE BED....IS ON....MY FOOT!!!!"
So where is this film?
Curious to know why the Vatican had this man do this filming.
They were all seen coming out of the White House...
I guess it didn’t work.
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