The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Directed by Scott Derrickson
When a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
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But if the film, like Derrickson's The Exorcism of Emily Rose before it, isn't some didactic shouting match between religious and secularist forces, it shouts in other ways—mostly as an unrefined litany of mansplaining which borrows more than a few notes from the granddaddy of all exorcism movies.
Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose took a forensic approach, blending a possession/exorcism story with courtroom drama.
His latest feature, "Deliver Us from Evil," also has more to say, but the problem is that the very same themes revolving around faith, religion and the darker corners of the supernatural were explored with far greater eloquence and depth in 2005's " The Exorcism of Emily Rose ."
Its police procedural twist aside, “Deliver Us From Evil” is basically the garden-variety possession/exorcism flick — not unlike other alleged true stories such as “The Exorcist,” “The Amityville Horror,” “An American Haunting,” “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” “The Haunting in Connecticut,” “The Possession,” “The Conjuring” et al.
It took Derrickson some time to establish credibility as a horror filmmaker—he had a minor hit with 2005’s similarly themed The Exorcism of Emily Rose and made a lot of money on a small budget with the genuinely unsettling Sinister, starring Ethan Hawke—but with the support of uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Derrickson’s dedication finally got the film made, though it hardly seems worth the trouble.
Seek out 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose for a better example of a courtroom drama centred on an apparent possession that offers both sides of the story for the viewer to determine their own opinion.
While the demonic murder defense starts The Devil Made Me Do It , the film does not turn into a horror movie courtroom drama, a la The Exorcism of Emily Rose .
Given its courtroom-drama inclusion here, Chaves could have incorporated The Exorcism of Emily Rose-like narrative approach in this third Conjuring film.
So far, not bad, and it brings up some decent memories of the underrated The Exorcism of Emily Rose .
Produced by the team that made 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose, the new film is designed to shake a God-fearing sanctity, a little holy hell, back into recovering communicants.
The granddaddy of the possession genre is, and will probably always be, "The Exorcist," but more recent examples, like 2000's underrated " Lost Souls ," 2005's astounding " The Exorcism of Emily Rose " and 2010's documentary-style " The Last Exorcism ," have also ably pulled their own weight.
The difference between this one and its '70s forebear is that The Rite's makers also produced The Exorcism of Emily Rose in 2005 and are determined to ground the new film in reality.
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Directed with classically inspired relish by Scott Derrickson (2005's " The Exorcism of Emily Rose ") and terrifically written with a distinct lack of compromise by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, the film is a rarified breed in that it burrows under the skin from the quietly petrifying first frame and stays there for days after.
Director Scott Derrickson , whose The Exorcism of Emily Rose remains one of my favorite recent horror movies, takes the reins with a style that works to separate him from the rest of the group.
The director of Sinister is Scott Derrickson, who previously scared us silly with The Exorcism of Emily Rose (inadvertently rejuvenating the demonic possession movie in the process).
As with his previous horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose , director/co-writer Scott Derrickson plays upon the conflict between rationalism and the supernatural, and if once again the devil gets all the best tunes (realised with some astonishingly creepy sound design), this time the hot potato of Christian faith is removed from the equation.
It’s as if, like that film and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” the filmmakers thought their “based on a true story” claim was all the credibility it needed, a story freighted with extra frights simply because it is “true.”
Or "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" or "The Rite" or "The Last Exorcism" or ...
Like “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi, Derrickson hails from the world of schlock horror, where he made such seat-jumpers as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “Sinister,” and here, he transitions smoothly to a far bigger canvas (so big that Imax audiences will benefit from more than an hour of footage captured on the company’s large-format digital cameras).
That's no knock on the movie itself, which director Scott Derrickson – the horror guy from Deliver Us from Evil, Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose – has kicked up a notch with a visual dazzle and wit unseen around these parts since The Matrix and Inception.
The movie’s weirdest choice is director Scott Derrickson, who made the bland remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and tepid horror films such as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and“Sinister.”
It’s the first spectacular sign that Scott Derrickson, who made Sinister and The Exorcism Of Emily Rose , will be breaking from the look and feel of the average Marvel product, the house style that regularly assimilates even distinctive directorial personalities like Kenneth Branagh and James Gunn.
Director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) here graduates from low-budget B-movie horror to big-budget Hollywood B-movie entertainment.
Director Derrickson is best known for medium-budget horror pictures ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), but he takes on this material with a surprisingly unassuming hand.