'The Pope's Exorcist' Official Trailer | Starring Russell Crowe

I’m a sucker for anything involving an exorcism.

Looks like a fun weekend matinee

That actually looks pretty good and creepy. I am always hesitant with movies like this because no matter how good they are the whole time, almost all of them fail to stick the landing and I'm left disappointed. I'll give this one a shot though, because that was a really good trailer. Just hope it can stick the landing.

Is Russell Crowe going to just eat the demon

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She was able to tell him what the Associate Priest was wearing, doing and his location, even though that Priest was a thousand miles away and she would have no way of knowing that info.

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He was wearing priest robes at the church praying.

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The story will be inspired by his demonic case files

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After watching the trailer, I can only assume that the word "inspired" means "we know there was a guy named Gabriele Amorth, he was the Vatican's top exorcist, and he claimed to have run into some real demons over the course of his life."

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I’m a sucker for anything involving an exorcism.

Looks like a fun weekend matinee

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Same here. I will be watching this one but I'll wait til it comes out on Prime.

He also said yoga was a path to Satanism

Movie looks fairly interesting

I feel like there is a twist where the pope is possessed or something at the end

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However, we have not one single confirmed occurrence of anything supernatural.

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I have not personally embarked on a scholarly research project to test your conclusion here, but, WRT to this demonic possession stuff, I will say that Amorth lived to be a very old man and he handled many cases. Many others have been involved in the process.

The process of exorcism was refined during the course of the 20th century to be more scientific and to involve the medical fields in the process in order to separate medical cases from the kind of case that a person like Amorth might be needed. From what I gather from casual reading, IMHO, your conclusion that "we have not one single confirmed occurrence of anything supernatural" has been refuted by actual events during the process of exorcism.

But, who knows for sure unless we've been there? All we can do is hope that the medical sciences remain involved in the process so that people can get the medical and/or spiritual help that they need. It's good that the medical sciences are involved in the process.

I have no idea how the movie will handle it all, but, unless it's almost like a pure documentary motion picture, it's probably going to be more like a horror movie than anything really informative. Amorth himself would probably prefer it to be a documentary and not a horror film.

One source of disagreement on the topic is the Theological difference between Prots and Catholics. Most Prot churches teach that people in Heaven cannot pray for us remaining on earth. They can't pray for their family on earth. They are not interested in doing so. Catholic theology says different - that our deceased family members in Heaven can and do pray for us and look out for us - i.e. the Deceased in Heaven ARE involved in our lives here on earth. That's my theory, anyway.

Makin movies, writin songs and exorcising around the world!