THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
By Aine

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!.......AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!..........AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........ok, I’m nowhere near done screaming, but you get the point. You can laugh at me all you want, but this movie scared the hell out of me!

I used to make fun of people who were actually scared by The Exorcist because I found it hilarious and not even remotely frightening. I apologize. The Exorcism of Emily Rose seems to be a more modern, even more terrifying version of The Exorcist; I guess you could call it exorcism for the new generation of desensitized young people. Do you have any idea how long it’s been since I’ve seen a movie that made my so scared I was uneasy? I wanted to get out of the theatre, I wanted to cry, and I was freaked out. I’m sure plenty toughies out there will do what I did about The Exorcist and dismiss it as funny. Again, laugh at me if you must, I don’t care.

I think the quickest way to describe this movie is that it’s like The Exorcist and The Omen are a married couple, and they go to dinner at Law and Order’s house. This is seriously the only courtroom drama horror movie I’ve ever seen or even heard of. Finally, a movie that makes you think WHILE it scares you half to death.

I can explain the premise in a nutshell, though that’s really not what makes the movie in this case. Emily Rose is a 19 year old girl who is extremely devout, she goes away to college and gets possessed by six demons (some pretty serious baddies too if you follow the who’s who of demons). She has an exorcism, but it fails due to the epilepsy drugs she’s been taking from her doctors who don’t “believe.” I can’t get too much into things without giving it away now, but she dies. And since she was seeing a priest, Father Moore, instead of a doctor, the priest is put on trial for negligent homicide, go figure.

The rest is pretty much the telling of the story of Emily Rose, cleverly unveiled by going back and forth between court testimony and flashbacks, not to mention the creepy goings on that occur during the trial. These creepy moments and flashbacks are the reason I am now afraid of 3 AM. Oh, and for those of you disgruntled horror fans out there, the ending does NOT suck! How’s that for a change of pace? And you may also be relieved to hear that the religious folks in this one are nowhere near as pretentious as holy men of past horror films.

Please go see this movie, even if you do think I’m a wussy. And now I resume my regularly scheduled programming….AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!......AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......