The real-life exorcism at the heart of "The Ritual," a new horror thriller opening in movie theaters June 6, has a Wisconsin prologue. "The Ritual" recounts a 1928 exorcism conducted at a convent in ...

The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a major plot point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out—its continuing ...

Demographics are the new Hollywood royalty. Producers don’t just make a movie, they make it for a certain age or gender group: teen boys, women over 25 or, in the case of so many year-end prestige ...

Thirty minutes into the exorcism thriller “The Rite,” Anthony Hopkins shows up. And for this performance, playing a grizzled, whimsical Welsh exorcist plying his trade in the working-class back alleys ...

A bizarre chapter in St. Louis history came to a close on this date 76 years ago, when a teenage boy believed to be possessed ...

For more than a month, Bowdern performed the rites of exorcism nightly, but the boy only got worse, with his spells increasingly violent. Early on, the boy was moved to the old Alexian Brothers ...

Not since Paul Schrader's ill-starred "Exorcist" entry "Dominion" in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite so seriously as "The Ritual." Based on a real-life case, like director ...