Sentences with phrase «exorcists at»

The magicians, sorcerers, and exorcists at Ephesus were frightened of Paul's power, but were so convinced of his message that they accepted the Christian faith.

-- many exorcists at this time did that — but that he did it so simply with only a word of command.

Ancient pre-Christian temple in northern Iraq featured in film The Exorcist at.

Not exact matches

Christian love is the life - blood of the new Fox series The Exorcist, in which devout Catholic characters grapple with demonic forces, putting at risk their lives and even their souls.

12.27 and 28, can not have originally stood together at this point, since the connection makes the activity of the Jewish exorcists also a manifestation of the Kingdom.

The most famous example of this is the 1973 film The Exorcist, which took over $ 400m at the box office.

Since all will rise at the same time, one will observe the judgment of the others and in some cases even influence it: «Your sons» who are exorcists «shall be your judges....

This was a topic because the «Exorcist» was on network tv at the time.

«The mainstream media is at it again,» wrote one Bethany Blankley in the (Protestant) Christian Post Opinion website: ««The Pope And The Devil: Is Francis an Exorcist?»

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.

Other horror films, like The Exorcist, come at this point from a different angle, demonstrating that purely scientific means are not adequate to explain spiritual events.

Young sold 22 million copies of his novel worldwide — more than Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, or The Grapes of Wrath have ever sold; more than Catch - 22 and The Exorcist combined — and the film earned a healthy $ 16.1 million at the box office on its opening weekend.

Then, there have been the screeching cats I've stepped on while stumbling for 3 am baby bottles and the Exorcist - style upchuck projecting from otherwise angelic children at the stroke of midnight.

At that moment Jennifer shot me a look I haven't seen since the supernatural thriller The Exorcist startled audiences.

At a brisk 93 minutes, this merely reheats the franchise's old familiar elements (plenty of poo and bum jokes for the kids and cine - literate nods for the adults, including The Exorcist via Rosemary's Baby and The Brood) to give us more - or, rather, less - of the same.

Halloween Horror Nights opened at this past weekend at Universal Studios theme parks in Hollywood and Orlando, featuring all of the top horror icons, including Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy, Leatherface, the Exorcist, and many more, with a Halloween II - inspired maze called «Hell Comes Haddonfield» among the killer highlights.

The film's Exorcist - themed pre-title sequence is probably the funniest stretch of the whole series, but the main plot — with the gang from the first film tricked into staying at a haunted house — lacks whatever inspiration there was in the first one.

You don't need me to point you toward The Exorcist, Friedkin's hellish horror classic, but if you trundle past the Friedkin section at Scarecrow and find yourself in the mood for something to make the skin crawl, you might consider Bug, the director's 2006 nightmare scenario.

Even Exorcist III, the only other Exorcist movie to even approach William Friedkin's 1973 original, is at its best when it keeps its religious themes grounded in events inspired by real life.

And it's not just Catholics who have a visceral reaction: News footage filmed at movie theaters during The Exorcist's original theatrical run shows people, many of them women, leaving midway through the movie short of breath and clutching their chests.

Lacking that, all it is is just another attempt at horror of the most cheesy variety, filling a void where The Exorcist ended and The Shining began.

Although the creep factor is high, the crap factor is even higher, in this ridiculously overblown and underdeveloped attempt at an Exorcist - style horror film.

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.

Though hard at work on their third feature, The Endless, the directing duo took a few minutes to discuss their love for William Friedkin's beloved, Oscar - winning The Exorcist.

With his horrendous turns in The Replacements and The Watcher also up for grabs, I can only say that these anti-Oscars would be more clever and thought - provoking if they quit aiming their guns at sitting hams (witness George C. Scott's Raspberry for his outstanding work in The Exorcist III); they long ago became the spoof - awards equivalent of a male comedian cracking wise about his mother - in - law.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

It doesn't take much wit for me to jump out of the bushes at you waving a bloody mutton chop, and Exorcist: The Beginning is the equivalent of that variety of obnoxious ass - clownery.

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That wouldn't be a problem if the bits actually paid off, but all the gags in the film either start well then sputter at the end (e.g. the opening Exorcist - inspired sequence, which for all its eventual shortcomings is still the most effective in the film; an overlong takeoff on a Nike commercial) or are dead on arrival (a forced Weakest Link reference).

If anything, he's gotten edgier and more in - your - face — and that's saying a lot about the guy whose adaptation of The Exorcist still keeps people awake at night.

Five years after Rosemary's Baby, the genre would establish an even bigger beachhead at the Oscars, courtesy of a gamechanging blockbuster and a vulgar, vomit - spewing little girl: The Exorcist.

Andy Starke, the producer, was keen on doing this remake of Jess Franco's Lorna, the Exorcist (1974) and I was quite into it at the time, but remaking just didn't work out.

Q: «Taxi Driver» scribe Paul Schrader's long - shelved version of «Exorcist: The Beginning» is finally seeing the light of day at the International Festival of Fantastic Film in Brussels.

«Standing at a menacing 15 inches tall, Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist is presented in a real cloth nightgown from the film.

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However, some of the gags poke fun at films that were either lampooned many times over or too old to recall (The Exorcist and Poltergeist), or the films are too unsuccessful to merit a spoof at all (The Frighteners, Hollow Man, and The Haunting).

Among the films leaving at the end of May are John Wick: Chapter 2 with Keanu Reeves, Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, superhero movies X-Men: Apocalypse and the 2003 Daredevil, and William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

The first produced screenplay from Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer is a mottle of rotting flesh stretched out between lame jokes on death, crotch sniffing digits, and splotches of gratuitous nudity, with unwanted formulaic pokes at Sam Raimi, John Landis, The Exorcist, and numerous other horror classics.

If you've seen Stanley Kubrick's The Shining more than a couple of times, or if you've been renewing your relationship with William Friedkin's The Exorcist over Halloween; if you've enjoyed Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island or marvelled at David Lynch's Inland Empire, I've got news for you.

Playing someone possessed by a demon is no easy task at 13, and he pulls it off, without even projectile vomiting pea soup (see Linda Blair in 1973's The Exorcist).

However, it's earned a following over the years, and it can be argued that it's even scarier than the original «Exorcist» (at least, Blatty has said so).

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).

At least that's what this William Friedkin (The Exorcist) film feels like before it even gets far into what they call a plot.

Most of us had probably forgotten that the film starts in the Sonora desert in Mexico, with barely visible figures wandering through dust storms — the same sort of feint that The Exorcist used by kicking off at an archeological dig in Iraq before getting around to the head - spinning money shots.

Also in attendance at the party were Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, and Alfred Molina from FX's Feud cast, Natalie Martinez from A.P.B. with Morris Chestnut from Rosewood, Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, and Geena Davis from The Exorcist, Sanaa Lathan from Shots Fired, and Sarah Wayne Callies from Prison Break.

Also in attendance at the Fox panel were the casts of Son of Zorn (Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows, and Johnny Pemberton), Lucifer (Tom Ellis, Tricia Helfer, and Aimee Garcia), and The Exorcist (Geena Davis, Hannah Kasulka, Brianne Howey, Alfonso Herrera, and Ben Daniels).

The result was, of course, «The Exorcist» and it would go on to become a massive hit that spent 57 weeks on the New York Times list of best - sellers, 17 of them at # 1.

Paul Schrader's A24 thriller First Reformed is one of the director's best per screen averages in years, with $ 25K a theater ($ 100K at four locations) besting Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist ($ 1k PTA off a $ 140K opening), and Autofocus ($ 11K PTA off a $ 123K opening).

Jennifer Jason Leigh's character even starts to resemble The Exorcist's Regan, drenched in gore and grinning mischievously at the carnage she has unleashed around her.