Last year during the Cannes Film Festival, The Exorcist director William Friedkin revealed that he was actually invited by The Vatican to film a real-life exorcism, although that claim was vehemently denied by The Vatican.
And I knew that he was kindly disposed towards The Exorcist movie, even though he had said the special effects were over the top.
I had an inner voice that said to me, ‘I wonder if I could meet Father Amorth?'”
The filmmaker revealed in a new interview how he connected with Father Gabriele Amorth, who performs exorcisms for The Vatican’s Rome Diocese.