The official synopsis for “The Ritual” reads: “When the Church sanctions the exorcism of Emma Schmidt (Abigail Cowan), two ...

The story was adapted in the 2016 British film The Exorcism Of Anna Ecklund, which we doubt even the Ritual filmmakers saw.

Russell Crowe’s The Pope’s Exorcist was based on the Vatican’s real-life one, and now Al Pacino stars as Theophilius Riesinger. The historical figure was a German-American priest and exorcist based in ...

Medieval tradition or modern need? Between faith and occultism, the role of an exorcist is reborn in a contemporary context ...