Last December, Friedkin wrote an op-ed piece in Vanity Fair detailing some of the things he had seen happen during the exorcism of Rosa, an Italian woman who was undergoing her ninth exorcism with Father Amorth.
For months now, cinephiles have been anxiously anticipating the release of William Friedkin’s film The Devil and Father Amorth, the documentation of a real-life exorcism by the man whose film The Exorcist made the practice (in)famous.
While early reviews of The Devil and Father Amorth have been mixed, the potential is there for a movie that wades deep into some murky waters and lets the audience do some fun heavy lifting.
I had only that camera running and I was about two feet away from them, probably even closer…