jpThe Pope’s Exorcist turns history into excuse-making, dressing institutional guilt up as demonic influence. The Exorcism can’t decide if it wants to honor or parasitize its legacy. The Ritual hides behind “documentation” while recycling every tired trope in the book.
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The Hagiography of Horror: Theological Revisionism and Meta-Cinematic Possession in the Post-Friedkin Era
The cinematic depiction of demonic possession has undergone a radical transformation in the early twenty-first century, shifting from the psychological realism and spiritual ambiguity pioneered by …