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 ...

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 ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

One of the best "exorcism" movies ever made has a new streaming home. Note the quotes around the word "exorcism" because this isn't one of those typicalmovies about the devil possessing an innocent ...

On this day in horror history, Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose with Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, and Jennifer Carpenter was released in 2005. Derrickson chose Paul Harris Boardman as ...

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 ...

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is an unusual movie, tricky to quantify but nonetheless affecting, as it combines two old standbys - the exorcism thriller and the courtroom drama - into something new and ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

In the heart of the American Bible Belt, an exorcism performed on the student Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) went tragically wrong. For the young woman's death, the priest Richard Moore (Tom ...