Sentences with phrase «as exorcist»

The game also gave a nod to William Peter Blatty's Legion (filmed as Exorcist III) as Scissorman wielded an enormous pair of autopsy shears.

Where Resident Evil blasted players with shock moments and bouts of extreme tension, Silent Hill is considered as The Exorcist of video games with an experience in pervading creepiness and classic horror imagery.

Unsurprisingly, he's all smiles as the Exorcist barrels down the runway at 130 mph.

An attempt at a prequel featuring Father Merrin resulted in two films released from the same material, the re-tooled Renny Harlin version coming to theaters first as Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), and the original Paul Schrader attempt the following year as Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005).

When the name William Friedkin comes up in conversation, you can not help but think of the directors crazy genius period in the 1970s with iconic films such as The Exorcist and The French Connection, or even his highly enjoyable To Live And Die in L.A. in the 1980s.

The keywords «evil child» bring up 65 movies and TV series on the Internet Movie Database including such famous works as The Exorcist, The Omen, The Bad Seed, both versions of Village of the Damned, and Macaulay Culkin's The Good Son.

The film will probably appeal to a younger, more ripe horror crowd who can't handle films such as The Exorcist.

The priest who first did my instruction in the faith was once a missionary in Africa, and told me terrifying stories of having to do spiritual battle as an exorcist with the same sort of «religious leaders» the pontiff was now welcoming as his honored guests.

He finds the religious portrayals of Jesus as an exorcist (Graham Twelftree), a Jewish peasant cynic (John Dominic Crossan), a prophet of social change (Gerd Thiessen), as a Gnostic teacher (Elaine Pagels), or as an eschatological prophet (E.P. Sanders) as exasperating to the befuddled layperson.

It is by his finger that demons are driven out (Q 11:20), irrespective of whether it was Jesus or «your sons» who functioned as exorcist (Q 11:2 1).

Church experts say there is a need to recruit more priests as exorcists in order to combat black magic,... More

Soldiers from Midgand known as The Exorcists are tasked with purging the Daemons from the world and cleansing the entire nation, bringing about peace once more.

To quell this proliferating threat, a theocratic organization known as the Abbey has dispatched a group of soldiers known as Exorcists.

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The project includes access into the Vatican's case files, as well as interviews with the organization's top exorcists - religious experts who are rarely seen on television.

So that the delusional people in each parish can find a sense of relief when the CC comes a runnin» with an exorcist to cast out their self - created demons??? Having an exorcist in each parish will just help to add more delusion to the faithful (which would of course benefit the CC as a whole as a means of psychologically wrestling their believers further under their proverbial thumb).

The evidence for exorcism as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is very strong indeed: exorcisms are to be found in every strata of the synoptic tradition, and the ancient Jewish texts regard Jesus as a miracle worker, i.e. an exorcist.

The demonic is either portrayed as a comical devil with red horns and a pitchfork or as some gruesome and malevolent force, as in the recent spate of Exorcist - style dramas on TV.

Roland Doe - This case is cited as the story which inspired the film The Exorcist.

There is a pastoral emergency as a result of a significant increase in the number of diabolical possessions that exorcist priests are confronting.»

Jesus himself is played by the great Max von Sydow (famous for The Exorcist and Shutter Island, and about to be famous for his role in the upcoming Star Wars relaunch), Charlton Heston as John the Baptist and even John Wayne -LRB-!)

When contacted by RELEVANT, the Institute said they do not refer priests to the media, but Msgr. John Esseff, president of the institute's board of directors, told the Catholic Register that he was «hopeful bishops are becoming more aware of their role as the «chief exorcist» for the diocese.»

Generally in those days, as in ours, attempts to exorcise a demon, or cast out an evil spirit would often take long periods of time, and great contests of power between the demon and the exorcist.

I'm not worried about demons though as long as I got my supply of silver bullets and an exorcist I keep in a closet.

The magicians, sorcerers, and exorcists of the region were so frightened by Paul's powers, and yet convinced of the validity of his message, that they collected their books of magic and burned them publicly as they embraced the Christian faith.

Suffice to say, there were plenty of eye - rolling, seizure - like eruptions in the crowd as people cried out and the exorcist confronted them, pressing his Bible against their heads, and demanding that their demons reveal their names.

Nevertheless, Von Sydow has the distinction of playing both Jesus in a largely conservative, by - the - book retelling of the Gospel, as well as having a prominent role in one of the most religiously controversial movies ever made: The Exorcist.

More needs to be said about the messianic implications of Jesus the exorcist and miracle worker and about Jesus» presentation of himself as God's Wisdom come in the flesh.

At the same time a more immediate power was available for the confrontation of evil and misfortune, often conceived in indigenous terms as possession by pay - picacu (spirits), through the saints, exorcists and to some extent the clerics themselves.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

I actually don't know what our fellow diners thought of our baby's Exorcist impersonation, as we were surrounded in seconds.

Though I felt like turning into that gal from the Exorcist, I had the wherewithal to confine my humiliation to a wall, as we were in the back corner (thank goodness for small favors).

I cosplay as kyoya from OHSHC and Yukio from Blue Exorcist.

My favorite animes as of now are death note, blue exorcist, no game no life, and ao haru ride.Im also into video games such as super smash bros, league of legends, and hearthstone.

For me this happened big - time during William Friedkin's The Exorcist, when I realized that I was expected to believe the film's superstitious nonsense, that the movie was using its horrors as a sadistic club against sensitive people of faith, especially devout Catholics.

Rampage was filmed by William Friedkin, whom we still remember as a startling newcomer (The French Connection, The Exorcist) even though his recent career has been marked by a notable detumescence (Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A., The Guardian).

A would - be black comedy written by Tracy Letts, based on his play, and directed by 76 - year - old William Friedkin, who has done little of note since he made «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist» during the Nixon administration, the movie stars Emile Hirsch as a low - level drug dealer who decides to kill his mom to pay off his superiors.

For what it's worth, as much as I enjoy ogling a topless Elizabeth Berridge, it's a shame that the Director's Cut of Amadeus has apparently not just eclipsed but indeed supplanted the theatrical version, à la John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic, Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans, and, most recently, David Fincher's Zodiac.

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As different as it is from Craven's vision, it is still marred by being derivative of other horror films, especially in The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist and CarriAs different as it is from Craven's vision, it is still marred by being derivative of other horror films, especially in The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist and Carrias it is from Craven's vision, it is still marred by being derivative of other horror films, especially in The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist and Carrie.

The obvious comparison for horror film fans is William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), not only because of the subject matter of demonic possession but also because of what can only be described as its maximalist style.

It's the personal project director William Friedkin chose to make after the runaway successes of «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist,» and its soaring costs and box office demise — buried under the release of «Star Wars» — more or less ended his career as an A-list director.

For example, The Exorcist can be viewed as the worst - case scenario for anyone suffering a crisis of faith, while The Shining taps into the madness of being cooped up with your family for too long.

The film starts off rather promisingly with an engaging performance from Fabian, but eventually degenerates in style and content to a pastiche of other horror films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, Children of the Corn, and so on.

When the autumn winds kick up, THE EXORCIST sits atop a demonic pedestal as my staple requirement in film, TV and print.

The reputation of the original not yet sullied, Exorcist II attracted new A-list talent in the form of recent Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher (severe as ever) and Sir Richard Burton (drunk and devouring the scenery), who star alongside Linda Blair and a handful of supporting players from the original.

Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

Fresh off his role as a possessed father on Fox's «The Exorcist,» John Cho is headed back into the genre arena...

The special effects are nifty enough (demons hanging from the ceiling, fingers being chopped off) and you can tell the directors are well - steeped in the subterranean worlds of The Exorcist and Blue Velvet but even as an act of homage, the film falls flat.