Rival11

Looks pretty damn creepy. The film is suppose to be equally divided in terms of the court disputes and exorcism footage.

The trailer will show once the link is clicked.....give it a couple of seconds.

Trailer

Geofferson

Creepy indeed.

woofman

Wow, looks pretty good. Definitely some Exorcist influences, but that's not a bad thing.

Matthew Chmiel

Colm Feore, Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, and Tom Wilkinson? One good cast there.

However, the trailer didn't "spark" enough interest with me (other than the cast) and with the current "decline" in horror/thrillers at the moment; I'm not expecting much out of this one.

LivingINClip

Looks okay.

I am willing to bet tho' they are will ruin it with CGI effects and an over-the-top finale.

Rival11

From Arrow's site:

http://joblo.com/arrow/

Does this film sport a lot of special effects?

PH: We tried to write it with that realism-based idea. We wanted to use them subtlety and selectively in terms of special effects. I think the casting of Jennifer Carpenter helped us in that a lot because she, as you will see can do so much with her body and her face and her voice. It kind of changed the paradigm a little bit for the visual effects people, and they just said “Once we saw her audition we all decided that, we just wanted to stay out of her way.” Obviously they're doing more than that and there will be effects through it, both visual effects and special effects like the old-fashioned kind. They're very effective too. I think keeping it more real like that and then having those little things just to enhance certain things that are there makes it scarier for this kind of movie because it doesn't take you outside the reality and make you think “Oh, gee, look, that's a cool effect.”

RyoHazuki

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...5&page=1&pp=25

tonymontana313

That is an extremely creepy trailer. Does anyone have any info on the true story it was based on?

Dr. DVD

Definitely interested in this one. Hope it sticks to being more of a take on true events as opposed to a horror cheapie in the end.

RyoHazuki

Chud has an interview with the director, laura linney, and tom wilkinson.


http://chud.com/interviews/3646

necros

thanks for the link to the trailer, now I gotta sleep with the lights on tonight

scott shelton

Really?

I've never heard that expressed about this actor. Interesting...

SmackDaddy

Anneliese Michel, she is who this is based on.

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_1253.html

Third Baseman

"Ahhh"

Joe Molotov

Heh, my younger sister's name is Emily Rose. The idea that she might be possessed by a demon has crossed my mind before.

Rival11

I don't know what it is about possession movies (excuse me, GOOD POSSESSION MOVIES) that creep me out so much but I was a little freaked by the trailer as well.

The last time I got that feeling was when I first saw the devil's rejects tailer where that girl runs out of the hotel wearin a friggin' flesh mask.

Sunday Morning

pretty creepy. I was hoping for another exorcism film. Hopefully the movie won't be a watered down version.

Coral

Colm Feore is a great actor who happens to be in more crappy films than good ones lately. Check out 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould - he puts in a great performance there.

This film has a great cast, but this seems to have the same type of feel as The Exorcist - so it seems like it's a retread.

Kal-El

That looks incredibly creepy. And I want to see it.

Chris777

i gotta agree

raven56706

November 4, 2004 - In 1968, a German girl named Annaliese Michel began having hallucinations, seeing voices, and experiencing other bizarre and unpleasant mental symptoms. Her problems were initially treated as epilepsy, but treatment failed to help. In 1975, at her parents' insistence, the Catholic church formally acknowledged that Annaliese was possessed and in need of exorcism.



Annaliese unfortunately died during the exorcism process, and after investing the death, the German courts ordered the girl's parents and one of the priests involved to stand trial. Adding fuel to the controversy was the effect that the contempory horror film The Exorcist and its portrayal of possession had on the public consciousness.

That story forms the premise of a new movie by Scott Derrickson (Urban Legends: Final Cut). The Exorcism of Annaliese Michele is based on the events surrounding the bizarre facts of the trial and the defense mounted by the defense.

Laura Linney (Mystic River, The Mothman Prophecies) stars as Erin Bruner, the priest's defense attorney, forced to confront her own personal demons as well as those of the case. Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) plays the priest.

Linney recently told Sci Fi Wire that despite the film's basis in real events, the setting and other integral parts of the story will be changed. For example, the movie will not be set in the early Seventies, nor will it take place in the province of Bavaria.

Linney didn't say just how much of a supernatural element the film would have. She did, however, mention that the actual exorcism rites would be shown as flashbacks from the points of view of several main characters – a common mechanism in mystery films.

The Exorcism of Annaliese Michel is being filmed in Vancouver this winter and will arrive in theaters sometime next year.
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I guess they changed the name of the movie... still pretty interesting

SPiRAL

The only thing that's stopping me from being excited about this is that it's PG13. I'll probably check it out depending on more reviews.

Filmmaker

Exactly...I saw the PG-13 thing last night and the film went immediately from a must-see to a "I'll wait for the reviews"...even if good, the restrictions imposed upon a PG-13 movie surely will keep this from being everything it could (should) have been...

clemente

ARGH!!! Not this again....whatever.

Rival11

WTF? Really? Well, here's hoping for an unrated DVD........as usual.