#Father Amorth

[earthenclover]

Just watched The Pope's Exorcist and as someone who thoroughly enjoys FAITH (and religious horror) I happily noticed the parallel of:

Inexperienced (in exorcism) younger priest who questions his faith named John Thomas(Tomas), and an older priest named Gabriel(Gabriele) who go through an extremely traumatic exorcism together and are now ganging up to dispel the UNSPEAKABLE (the 199 places of evil).

[trashprinceward]

I love this little priest man and his stupid priest dad, why did he have to be stuck in such a rinky dinky movie? I am a fandom of one.

[old-man-hell]

i just can't get you out of my head ( father amorth fancam )

[storywriter12]

The next chapter of my film book is up on wattpad

The movie :the pope's exorcist

[bladesofkyber]

Russell Crowe as Vespa Priest Father Gabriele Amorth

THE POPE'S EXORCIST (2023) dir. Julius Avery

[artblooger19moon]

Pope's Exorcist (2023)

Just released from theatres to stream today!

⭐️⭐️⭐️.85/5

😱😱😱.5/5

The Vasquez family moved into the diocese that was inherited by their family through the father, who had recently passed away about a year ago. The mother Julia fixes up old homes for a living and so seems to be relishing in these tasks , but not so much her kids. It is an older building that you can tell has been in the family for many generations, and probably has many stories inside its walls. However, as the film goes on you soon find out that that’s not the only thing that is inside these walls.

Russell Crowe’s take on the chief exorcist of the Vatican, Father Amorth is honestly so riveting throughout this picture. You can tell he really gets into the character and loses himself in the process. Which really shows how great of an actor he is. This is the first time I’ve seen him play such a powerful character and to see his range of emotions is definitely something that no one should miss.

I would also like to commend Zoë Gibney and the entire makeup team under her which I do not do often. The make up work in this film is honestly one of the best I’ve seen of 2023, a close second to Evil Dead Rise. (Look for this review soon) you can tell they really took their time with the cosmetics to make it as realistic as possible to what they were trying to portray.

The history of the Catholic Church, and how they deal with exorcisms in this feature to my knowledge, was done very well. The only criticism I would give this film would be the ending, which I will not give away. Thus this was the only thing that stopped it from being a four out of five stars. Nonetheless, this film was a nonstop great watch that really kept you on the edge of your seat.

Director: Julius Avery

Cinematographer: Khalid Mohtaseb

Streaming on: Netflix

Tw: emetophobia, blood, needles, possession

[proceduralbob]

One day Father Candido was expelling a demon. Toward the end of the exorcism, he turned to the evil spirit and sarcastically told him, “Get out of here. The Lord has already prepared a nice, well-heated house for you!” At this, the demon answered, “You do not know anything! It wasn’t he [God] who made hell. It was us. He had not even thought about it.” Similarly, on another occasion, while I was questioning a demon to know whether he had contributed to the creation of hell, I received this answer: “All of us cooperated.”

An Exorcist Tells His Story, Father Gabriele Amorth

[actuallycassidyiambusy]

Oh boy am i glad i opened twitter today

ᵀʰᵃᵗ ᵖᵒˢᵉ ʷᵃˢ ᵈⁱᵃᵇᵒˡⁱᶜᵃˡ ᵗᵒ ᵈʳᵃʷ ˡᵐᶠᵃᵒ ᵐʸ ᵍʳᵒʷⁿ ᵃˢˢ ʷᵃˢ ˡᵒᵒᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ᵐʸ ˢʰᵒᵘˡᵈᵉʳ ᶜᵒⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᵗˡʸ🤣 ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵐʸ ʰᵘˢᵇᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᵗʰᵉʳ ⁽ʷʰᵒ ⁱˢ ᶜᵘʳʳᵉⁿᵗˡʸ ˡⁱᵛⁱⁿᵍ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵘˢ⁾ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ᵇᵉ ᵇᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ ᵐᵉ ˡⁱᵏᵉ

ᴵ'ᵛᵉ ᵇᵉᵉⁿ ʷᵒʳᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᵒⁿ ᵐʸ ᴮˡᵘᶠᶠʸ ᵈᵉᵐᵒⁿ ᵃᵘ ⁱⁿ ᵐʸ ᵈᵒʷⁿᵗⁱᵐᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵖʳᵒᵇᵃᵇˡʸ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᵛᵒʳⁱᵗᵉ ʸᵉᵗ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᴵ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵗᵒ ʷʳⁱᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ˢʰⁱᵗ ᴵ ᵃᵐ ᵒᵇˢᵉˢˢᵉᵈ ʷⁱᵗʰ

ᴰᵉᵐᵒⁿˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵖʳⁱᵉˢᵗˢ 🥴❤️‍🔥

[local-boob]

lol loved this

The Devil and Father Amorth William Friedkin USA, 2017 ★★

[mourningmaybells]

the church is beyond parody it's not even fun to make up a joke about them no more

[watchmorecinema]

In more "Why didn't they release this in theaters" news, the new Exorcist movie (another in a long line of missing the point) came out on the same day as William Friedkin's last film. And uh, the latter is only on streaming.

I know he made some terrible crap recently (the devil and father amorth) but he deserves better than that.

[finalaudreythespiritswithin]

william friedkin is a good filmmaker and cruising is an all-timer but my perception of him changed a lot after seeing an extremely credulous "documentary" he made about how demonic possession and exorcism are totally real. it's so bad it seems like he's doing a bit but i'm pretty sure he was sincere. guess you've gotta chock it up to artistic eccentricity like how david lynch gives tons of money to a transcendental meditation cult.

[cronengirly]

Haha hey remember when The Pope's Exorcist came out and literally said that the church wasn't at fault for the Spanish inquisition because it was actually a conspiracy orchestrated by literal demons?

Anyway stay critical about the media you consume and conscious of who's writing it and what they're trying to say. You'll be better off for it.

Watching The Conjuring 3 and like... Admittedly, I'm no expert on the Arne Johnson case but, like, he did kill a guy. He was charged with manslaughter and served jail time. He straight up killed a dude. And yet this movie spends almost 2 hours adamant that "actually, a demon did it so it's not his fault :("

Maybe we should stop doing this "based on a true story" thing when there were real deaths involved, idk, especially if you're not gonna handle it with some fucking tact.

[talkaboutmovies]

The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

Demonic possession and church conspiracies have been the subject of many recent horror movies. Both are in "The Pope's Exorcist", starring Russell Crowe. Crowe plays Father Gabriel Amorth, who served as the movie's title from 1986 until his death in 2016.

Following an exorcism involving a pig, Father Amorth is sent by the Pope (Franco Nero) to Spain to investigate an alleged possession at a remote Spanish abbey. A woman and her two children are there to renovate the building. It was left to them by the husband who died the previous year. The daughter (Laurel Marsden) is unhappy about being there and barely speaks to her mother (Alexandra Essoe) while the son (Peter Desouza-Feighoney) hasn't spoken at all since seeing his father killed the previous year.

After what looked like an accidental fire, the son begins acting oddly. In one of the better scenes in the film the son, who by this point is obviously possessed, dispatches a local priest who has come to investigate. Father Amorth arrives and is aided by the same priest.

"The Pope's Exorcist" doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before but is better than it looks. Of course, it owes a great debt to "The Exorcist", but also calls to mind the 1986 Sean Connery film "The Name of the Rose". There are not a lot of genuine scares, but the ones there are are effective. Most of those revolve around the possessed boy when he reveals things that he himself couldn't possibly know about Father Amorth and Father Esquibel. I hadn't seen Russell Crowe in anything in awhile and couldn't see him in this role. He pulls it off though with a nice blend of humor and intensity. Although not on the level of Linda Blair, Desouza-Feighoney is pretty scary after his possession. Also, the Italian and Irish locales are beautiful.

[junkfoodcinemas]

Father Gabriel Amorth - Russell Crowe

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)