Editor's Note: The following contains material that readers may find disturbing. Horror films "Based on a True Story" are terrifying because they remind us that what happened to someone else could ...

Most modern horror movies have a similar structure. They’re low-budget affairs set in a single location, such as a haunted house. Their trailers often feature predictable jump scares. Studios like ...

If you’ve seen Scott Derrickson’s 2005 film The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, then you’re already vaguely familiar with the story of Anneliese Michel. But instead of being a work of horror fiction, Michel’s ...

The ‘70s were a big decade for Lucifer. The Exorcist came out in late ‘73, Anton LaVey was really feeling himself with the growing popularity of his Church of Satan, and his book, The Satanic Bible, ...

I'm fascinated by movies that give us some measure of the ending right at the start of the story. I love the sense of inevitability it lends, particularly in horror, and I love watching the ways ...

?The Exorcism of Emily Rose? perfectly demonstrates the principle of ?show, don?t tell.? It tells the story, based on true events, of an exorcism performed on a young college girl named Emily Rose ...

"Prey for the Devil" is an unoriginal disaster that borrows heavily from earlier exorcism movies, featuring stock characters and a borderline Catholic propaganda storyline. "The Exorcism of Emily Rose ...