The real-life exorcism at the heart of "The Ritual," a new horror thriller opening in movie theaters June 6, has a Wisconsin prologue. "The Ritual" recounts a 1928 exorcism conducted at a convent in ...

"The Rite" opens today, making it the latest film in a long tradition that exploits the inherent freakiness of the religious exorcism. As the centerpiece of a horror flick, exorcism is a can't-lose ...

Demographics are the new Hollywood royalty. Producers don’t just make a movie, they make it for a certain age or gender group: teen boys, women over 25 or, in the case of so many year-end prestige ...

The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a major plot point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out—its continuing ...

Thirty minutes into the exorcism thriller “The Rite,” Anthony Hopkins shows up. And for this performance, playing a grizzled, whimsical Welsh exorcist plying his trade in the working-class back alleys ...

For more than a month, Bowdern performed the rites of exorcism nightly, but the boy only got worse, with his spells increasingly violent. Early on, the boy was moved to the old Alexian Brothers ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - New Line Cinema has taken possession of "The Rite," the true story of an American priest who studied at an exorcism school in Italy. Sign up here. The project is based ...

Not since Paul Schrader's ill-starred "Exorcist" entry "Dominion" in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite so seriously as "The Ritual." Based on a real-life case, like director ...

NEW YORK -- Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which ended Saturday ...