Far from a knock-off, 'The Ritual' aims to document history. 'The Exorcist,' on the other hand, was pure entertainment.

Al Pacino was too freaked out to see "The Exorcist," but stars with Dan Stevens in "The Ritual," a horror movie based on a ...

Not since Paul Schrader’s ill-starred “Exorcist” entry “Dominion” in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite ...

A 6-year-old boy was found dead in his Florida home during a welfare check after he didn't show up to school for over two ...

Ashley Greene, Patricia Heaton and Abigail Cowen also appear in David Midell's entry in the overdone subgenre.

The Al Pacino-led possession thriller purports to be based on the true story of the infamous 1928 exorcism of Emma Schmidt.

William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is viewed by most as being the greatest demonic possession horror ever created. The film was based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name ...

They see little reason to keep her in restraints as recommended by Father Theophilus Riesinger (Pacino), the visiting Capuchin friar who’ll perform “sacred rites” of exorcism. That turns out ...

Still, there’s no denying it: this is a superb piece of new writing, staged with confidence and performed with real heart.

My play Radiant Boy is, at its core, about the protagonist Russell’s very real struggle to accept the ... thrill was in using the structure of an exorcism to surprise and challenge the audience.

Recently, I scoured Reddit and our very own BuzzFeed community in search of real-life exorcism and possession stories. Whether people were possessed themselves, witnessed an exorcism with their own ...