'Emily Rose' meant to be more than scary movie (real life exorcism)

Bluefield Telegraph ^ | September 9, 2005 | Terry Mattingly

[NYer]

Terry Mattingly (www.tmatt.net) is senior fellow for journalism at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.

[NYer]

"I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God, What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell."
Sister Faustina's Vision of Hell

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[Rebelbase]

Thanks, but I think I'll pass on this one.

[Slings and Arrows]

When do we get to see "Hillary! Rose"?
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[Bombardier]

In the end, Derrickson said, he hopes moviegoers will dare to ask tough questions about good and evil, God and Satan.

"Right now, there is plenty of amorphous belief out there about God," he said. "Lots of people are saying, 'God is within us. God is a force. God is everything. God is everywhere.' They don't really believe in a God who makes demands, who judges, does things that make us uncomfortable. They're vague about evil, too.

"What we tried to do was make an entertaining movie that scared people. But I also wanted people to stop and think about all of that."

Wow....a filmmaker who GETS it! I never thought I'd live to see THAT! Thanks for posting this article!

[martin_fierro]

The prosecutor is portrayed as a progressive Christian, a Bible-reading modernist who is repulsed by this encounter with what he considers an ancient, irrational and dangerous form of faith.

He's an Elder over at Our Lady of the Situational Ethic.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

This Movie is bound to be disturbing to those who teeter on the brink of belief. I have no doubt that demons exist. Nor do I doubt that heaven exists..... I hope this movie makes people Think for once ... but that probably wont happen.

[xsmommy]

this is very heartening to read. just last evening, when the commercial for the movie came on the car radio, i remarked to my teenaged son that it sounded way too scary to me and that i didn't like movies about the devil because he is real and so many movies try to spoof him and make him seem not.

i recall very vividly the sermon from the pulpit when our priest spoke about the movie the Exorcist which had come out back then, and he said that the devil's biggest coup was when people did NOT believe in him.

i am gratified to read that this director gets it, and has the intent to show that he IS real.

[bobdsmith]

Well good luck to this director, but I had hoped that new Dawn of the Dead movie would make people understand that zombies really do exist. Unfortunately not.

[ScreamingFist]

"And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains, and burning with fire. Then I said: 'For what sin have they been bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, and was chief over them and said: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are the number of the stars of heaven which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.'"

[orionblamblam]

The previews show what looks like a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.

[dead]

The movie was inspired by the story of Anneliese Michel, a German college student and devout Catholic who died during exorcism rites in 1976. Doctors said her seizures and visions were caused by epilepsy. Her family was convinced otherwise and their bishop agreed to allow a series of exorcism rites. The ordeal eventually took her life.

Is there a reason that every review that looks at a movie from a Christian perspective has to tell me the ending?

[dead]

Well good luck to this director, but I had hoped that new Dawn of the Dead movie would make people understand that zombies really do exist.

I do believe. I do believe. I do. I do. I do.

(My senator’s Frank Lautenberg – how could I not?)

[general_re]

Zombies do exist...

[general_re]

My senator’s Frank Lautenberg – how could I not?

Well, then 14's for you too ;)

[Fatalist]

The movie is actually about the trial that took place after her death, so I imagine you find out early on that she died.

[Pyro7480]

LOL! What movie is that from?

[plain talk]

I'm sorry. Where is that in the Bible?

[dead]

Wow! That's a classic!

[dead]

OK. I hate it when movie reviews tell me the ending. Everybody ruined that Clint Eastwood chick boxing movie for me.

Hopefully this review didn't. It looks like a pretty spooky movie. There are very few legitimately spooky horror movies.