For a couple of years now, my non-Catholic horror-movie loving pals have been challenging me to watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Anyone who knows me, knows that I love scary movies, but not ones that involve demons and Satan and the Rite of Exorcism. If it is going to cause me to reach hungrily ...
The best ghost stories ever told are the ones that people claim are true. The Discovery Channel has managed to serve up over five seasons of “true stories” from all over the country. The people in A Haunting are real people. The episodes are dramatized for entertainment effect, but appearances by the real haunted residents ...
This is the book which started it all – the controversial book which led to the making of “The Exorcist” (1973), one of the best horror movies of all time. Partly based on the true story of a child’s demonic possession in 1949. Regan MacNeil, twelve year old daughter of famous actress, Chris MacNeil, starts ...
I think I’ve seen it all now. Never in a million years did I anticipate it was possible to make a movie about demon possession and have it completely devoid of the utterance of the name of Jesus Christ or the symbolism of the cross. “The Possession” has accomplished both these tasks in the space ...
Of all the heroes across the vast pantheon that is the Marvel Universe, no other has stood out as more fantastically mystical and bizarre as Doctor Stephen Strange, created in 1963 by Marvel legends Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. Although he was originally created as nothing more than a supporting character alongside the Human ...
