An actual mid-century 1900s possession case served as inspiration for the classic movie’s head-spinning fictional terrors.

If you're a horror movie fan like me, odds are you've seen a good chunk of possession or exorcism-themed movies. It's one of Hollywood's favorite kinds of scary movies to make, it seems!

XYZ Films has shared a new poster and trailer for writer-director David Midell’s upcoming horror The Ritual ahead of its ...

Al Pacino and Dan Stevens team up to perform an exorcism in The Ritual, a new horror film based on the true events that ...

this time showing a glimpse of an exorcism led by Al Pacino’s Father Theophilus Riesinger, who performed the real-life exorcism in 1928. In the film, “Two priests, one questioning his faith ...

A deranged Texas man allegedly beat his mom and dog to death in an “exorcism” — and then shared photos of their bodies on Snapchat, according to police. Taylor Valdez, 23, was found covered ...

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

what many viewers might not know is that both the movie and the book drew on actual events to weave their highly dramatized tales of possession and purging. Mike Flanagan Says New Exorcist Movie ...