All true. But not the same as dismissed as woo. They’ve haven’t dismissed it…can’t really. It’s in the Bible.
It’s a bit more than that. Like I said, it’s in the Bible. Jesus cast out demons. Therefore demon possession happens. Etc. etc. They’re stuck with it. Thought they do seem to have the decency to be embarrassed about it.
Good question. As I didn’t even know my name before 1971 I don’t know, but I would think the idea of demon posession was known to plenty of people. Perhaps the official Catholic rite wasn’t much known of.
I could be wrong (may well be) but didn’t the story the Exorcism of Emily Rose was based on involve an exorcism that was sactioned by the RCC. For that matter wasn’t that the case for the Exorcist?
VH1 was probably just trying to put some spin on to cater to Halloween scariness.
There are no ghosts, but the Travel Channel had Haunted This and Haunted That on for like a week. Just as silly as Exorcist curses and all that. They will try to dig up some angle to appeal to somebody.
I have The Holy Power of the Sacred Remote, and I wield it like a Mighty Sword.
I don’t remember the name of the show. As for the quote, it was the host who said it, but to be fair, it was not an exact quote. It was more along the lines of “Well, something was out there in the woods…” neglecting to add that it was two grips with an inky. But there are people who are susceptible enough that they’ll take that remark, and the whole show, as proof that The Truth Is Out There.
The case for The Exorcist was actually about a boy, and I think he was a good bit older. When he started writing his story, Blatty contacted the people involved, and they gave him a lot of details. However, they insisted that he not use the boy’s name, and change a few details, so as to keep his identity secret. So Blatty changed the name, the age, the gender, the city, and the decade. I imagine that he filled in a few extra details as well.
Yes, they did. What was interesting there was that in the scene where Dyer was giving last rites to Damien, they did take after take on through the night. At around 2:30 AM, O’Malley was getting very tired and wanted to call it a night. Friedkin slapped him hard. O’Malley was so upset he was shaking. That’s when they did the take that made it into the film.
Just another example of motivating actors through physical abuse.
And O’Malley is a priest, not an actor. I thought that was interesting.
Interestingly enough, I saw on part of some “Unsolved Mysteries” type show once that there was evidence the boy had been molested by an aunt prior to the events that surrounded his “possession”. The aunt had recently died, and then the boy started acting out.
As for the doc, yeah, it’s cheesy and sensational, but what did you expect from VH fucking 1?
An inky is a small light, 150 watts. Grips, however, are not electricians. Electricians run the power and power cables, and set the lights. Grips are in charge of everything that blocks or diffuses the lights, as well as mechanical stuff like setting pancakes (flat boards) under lights to keep them level, or apple boxes to elevate them.
So in this case, the juicers (electricians) would have set up the genny (generator), run the cables out to the woods, and set the inky, while the grips supplied boxes to keep the light from setting the underbrush on fire. The juicers might have run a dimmer switch to increase or decrease the amount of light, or the grips might have been waving flags (squares of light-proof cloth) in front of the light to make it flicker. If the light was supposed to be any color other than white, then the juicers would have placed a gel (colored plastic) in front of the lens.
There might have been a 10K in a condor involved at some point, now that I think about it, but let’s not get into that. At any rate, the grips would have been the ones to do the rustling around in the underbrush. Grips are called on to do a lot of non-lighting things when it would be easier to use someone who’s on the spot than to pull a PA (production assistant) away from what they’re doing.
Also, the key grip is the chief of the grip crew. The dolly grip is the guy who pushes the dolly, with the camera, and sometimes the DP (director of photography) on it, as well as setting the track and keeping it level, if a track is used. Everyone else is just a grip.
(I’m a bit rusty on this, so if Cartooniverse or anyone with more immediate knowledge wants to correct any errors, I willl not say them nay.)
Not much. Except as as is usual for this thread, I made yet another factual error. It wasn’t VH1. It was E!. Not that it matters, as all of those cable stations are run by the same people. You know, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, and Linda Blair.
This thread has given me a desire to watch the original Exorcist again, so I rented it. Phrases like “Your mother sucks cock in Hell” are sweet melodies to put me to sleep. Sheesh, what a snooze-fest of a dumb film. It’s hard to believe that it raised any eyebrows back in the early 70s. I guess that’s the result of raising the ante on each succesive horror flick. I’ve become numb to anything shocking.
As to spanking Anaamika – I’d be afraid of raising welts that spell out “SpaNK Me”
