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@@bubblycider Yeah... I'm not Italian, but it sounded pretty stagey to me. And having heard a number of actual Italians speaking Italian, I didn't think it sounded too authentic when he was speaking the language either. Sad thing is, I think this IS him trying 😕
Give me a exorcist story where we find out that the "possessed" person was never holding a demon but was used as a distraction. Because the real demon was possessing the normal appearing helpful person the whole time, using the whole situation to cause more pain and etc.
That's what happened in The Seventh Day. The exorcist priest was actually possessed by a demon, and used his position as an exorcist teacher to possess multiple priests he was training with other demons.
this whole movie is like "the worst horrors the church has committed were actually demons, trust me bro. honestly anything bad was probably the demons, of which there are definitely some" and yet the church didn't like it? i wasn't really expecting a retcon of the spanish inquisition when i started watching this. but you know what they about expectations and the spanish inquisition
At least they answered the question of why we should even fear the demon possessing members of the church when the church is doing bad enough without them lmao Yes, everything bad the catholic church has ever done was clearly just because of demon possession. Except sexually assaulting children and then covering it up apparently, but that's only worth mentioning because it traumatizes the abusive priests and gives the demons stronger arguments, right? fucking yikes -_-
I mean, if this makes it look like the Church is claiming every wrongdoing was because of demons, that makes the Church look like bigger jerks. So it makes sense they wouldn’t like it.
Why do they always call a Catholic exorcist? I want "Sven Johnson--Lutheran Exorcist." He'd use passive-aggressive techniques mastered over years. Like serving endless hot dish and refusing to allow the demon to leave. Talking about recalking the tub. Long awkward silences. Horrifically out-of-tune gospel songs.
@@tamold3084 Oh you know Gus? Yeah that's his cousin over there. He had to get his mower exorcised some years back. It kept bleeding all over and speaking Latin. Craftsman, so that'll happen sometimes with those.
The secret demon name is Amadeus?! So I guess exorcists should just run through the most obvious demon names first. Can be finished and home in time for evening prayers.
Right? They could have just played that tiktok sound from a couple months ago that people were putting pictures of their cats over "Asmodeus...Satanus...Lucifer!"
For once I'd like these exorcist movies to pick a sleeper. I loved how Hereditary didn't pick Asmodeus, Beelzebub, or Satan, and instead picked King Paimon. I imagine Asmodeus and friends are pretty busy, they can't be responsible for every possession. Give me Malphas or something.
The line "Satan has infiltrated the church" is probably code for: the italian mob, Cosa Nostra, has infiltrated ranks by making sure clergy they control are being promoted. Some controlled by blackmail, some by means Cosa Nostra could pay. (Edited due to failing the Italian language)
It's "Cosa Nostra" without "la". I don't want to be an ass, I swear, but it's its proper name so it doesn't need a determinative article. Is like saying "The Amanda" in casual conversation instead of just "Amanda"
If a horror film has "based on a true story" as it's tagline then you can be sure it's full of bs. Hell, The Exorcist is a more faithfull adaptation of reality than half of this tripe
You're a better person than me, i would have written the tie in to the sponsor something like "Jesus wouldn't have gotten his feet wet if he used Vessi shoes!"
Fun Fact: A vast majority of bona fide 'demonic possessions' needing an exorcist are either cases of severe Schizophrenia or Possession-Form Dissociative Identity Disorder
Also psychological manipulation in very high stress environments. I've seen it over and over and over in the evangelical circles I was raised in. Take someone with trauma or chronic pain/illness and start telling them its because they're being "afflicted" or "persecuted" by the agents of hell. When your whole worldview hinges on eternal salvation or eternal damnation, being "afflicted " by hellish forces makes many people panic which results in things like heavy weeping, screaming, hyperventilating, becoming irrational, etc. It may not be speaking with the voices of Legion or climbing up walls, but it's what the run of the mill exorcism looks like in evangelical circles and its very disconcerting to see people pushed past their psychological and physical limits "for the glory of god"
That's why I'm not in love with Exorc!st movies. I have a really hard time suspending my beliefs at what, in real life, would be the totur!ng of a normal person with mental illness.
I'm actually going to lose it at the Dragon Age: Inquisition symbol being used instead of the Spanish Inquisition symbol. Was it intentional??? Was there some inside joke that maybe Amanda didn't get, or did they genuinely mix it up??? Someone please tell me, I need to know
@@GTSN38I care because it's funny lol, you don't have to. Or have to reply to my comment 🤷Not forcing you to care, it's a silly comment on a video about a stupid movie pfft
Oh how we have forgotten Noah. That's almost 10 years old, and I feel like it's more off the wall than this (and also religious retconning lol). Weird niche for him, but something something nickel, I would have a dime.
The Pope suddenly knew Amorth was possessed because Snoke had formed a Force connection between them, and the Pope was about to hand off his lightsaber to Amorth through hyperspace.
tbh i would watch a pope's exorcist cinematic universe. it would be so stupid, but you also know they'd get into some wild shit eventually. like weird angel/alien hybrid shit, or just straight-up pulling things out of apocryphal texts and making them canon.
Hey Amanda, Italian here: Russell Crowe doesn't sound believably Italian at all. I mean, it's not the worst fake Italian I've ever heard (that episode of Happy Endings still makes me cringe), but you wouldn't mistake him for Italian. (Also, I only watched a snippet, but it's clear that whoever wrote the Italian dialogues isn't particularly familiar with spoken Italian. It sounds stiff and unnatural) (Edit: did I say Italian enough times?)
Non sai che sollievo sia per me trovare, sotto al video di una delle mie youtubers preferite, un'italiana con cui piangere sull'ennesima volta che ci hanno TRUCIDATO la lingua... 😭
@@kronk2.094 Inserire meme di Spider-Man obbligatorio. Però davvero, dio mio. Non mi ricordo cosa stavo guardando qualche tempo fa, ma siccome avevo i sottotitoli in italiano, quando parlavano italiano non comparivano sottotitoli (perché fanculo quelli con problemi di processamento uditivo, suppongo). Il problema è che gli attori l'Italia credo non l'avessero mai vista neanche in cartolina, e non capivo assolutamente nulla di quello che dicevano. Fun times.
@@IlyTheVampire Figurati che io, qui, ci ho messo un po' di tempo, e svariati "Ma perchè ca**o non mi vanno i sottotitoli?!?!?", prima di capire che se non c'erano era perchè stessero parlando """italiano""". E allora, dentro di me, qualcosa si è infranto per l'ennesima volta... 😢 Se penso che Charlotte di Bly Manor si sia prestata a un film del genere... 💀
@@kronk2.094 Quando l'ho vista ho pensato "nooooooooo, non ti accontentare di niente di meno di Flanagan - ma soprattutto non questo, che stai facendo???" Comunque, mi hai fatto venire in mente quando ho visto Big Hero 6 e alla fine è partita Immortal e ho pensato "Oh, hanno fatto fare ai Fall Out Boy una versione in giapponese della canzone, okay." ... Non so quanto ci ho messo a capire che era in italiano... Oooops
I've been stationed on Guam. It's a beautiful tropical island in the western Pacific that's just modern enough to be convenient but just isolated enough that nobody messes with you. Being reassigned there is *not* punishment!
Listen, I was raised in a very traditional catholic environment, and Father Amorth was like, this really hardcore figure for us, kind of a hero... seeing this video with my background makes it twice as funny
I think you could do some really cool stuff with Christian iconography and make some powerful horror with it. For example, that shot of Mary rising is super sick, but then it just devolves into something campy and dumb. For once, I would like to see an exorcism movie portray demons not as vulgar jerks, but as truly incomprehensible beings, and do the same for angels. Because if you think about it, if they existed, they would almost certainly be unfathomable to the human mind. People constantly meme about "Biblically accurate angels"-which I should clarify the wheel beings with a thousand eyes are not "angels" according to the Bible, they're something else (seraphim are not angels in the Bible, malakim are, which are men with wings)-but I think you could create a film that's truly haunting if you portrayed these things as nigh omnipotent, eldritch, entities.
It's not quite what you're describing but have you listened to The Magnus Archives? It's not Christianity based but it has a few really interesting episodes that touch on it - I especially recommend episodes 19 and 20 "Confession" and "Desecrated Host".
the term "Biblically accurate angels" is misleading as the Bible and the Tanakh (the "Hebrew Bible") describe them in several different ways including as Just Winged Guys.
Yeah NGL I think I read the plot summary of this movie after watching Critical's video on it, and I had a problem with Asmodeus being the antagonist demon in this movie. Y'know how -King Solomon- you deal with Asmodeus -in the Ars Goetia- ? You put a rotten fish in the victim's bedroom, and because Asmodeus couldn't stand the smell, he just fucked off. This entire movie could have been solved by rotten fish!
@@Grim_Sister honestly didn't know that, despite it kinda obvious when you think about it. Thanks for the information. Islam has a Demon cure-all as well, called "Ayat Al-Kursi" (Verse of the Throne). Basically a couple of Wikipedia searches would have solved this movie
Just once I want to watch an exorcism movie where the possessed becomes friends with their demon and is trying to prevent the exorcism. But the demon is draining the life out of them and they need to be exorcised but like eddie and venom, the mc and their demon are basically a couple.
Honestly, why create an agonizing exorcism movie we've all seen before when a possession is a great way to meet new people? I mean think of it, you can be in the comfort of your own home when you encounter them, the demon may help you to cook if you don't know how to since they've gotta keep you healthy, you could learn a whole new language with their aid, you'll get to be *very* flexible, and you can learn countless about ancient matters that the demon would know like the back of their hand. It has the potential to become something *beautiful!*
Fun fact, the symbol of the "Spanish Inquisition" from this movie was actually just yoinked from the internet, and it's actually the symbol of the Inquistion from Dragon Age.
I wanted to tell you this before I forget, the scene with the possessed boy and the 'you used to feed me mommy' think reminded me so much of a SNL skit you will have probably not scene because you are young and I'm old. Anyway its got Richard Pryor as the younger priest trying to push the devil out of Regan. At some point she says 'your momma eats kitty litter in hell' and that's a classic line. Followed up by 'dont you be talking about my momma'. Anyway I would put a link but I'm not sure that's allowed, track it down and watch it, you'll be amazed by the resemblance. Also Thanks! This was a great episode or show.
hah, reminds me of the German Club Nintendo comic where Wario summons demons (those comics were weird) and when one of them possesses Princess Peach she says "your mother cleans the bathrooms in Hell"
Let's add another layer of fun: Russel Crow actually sounds like an american trying to speak italian and in particular, he sounds like Kevin Costner in a 90s italian tv commercial (for a shoe brand) that is still mocked to this day because of Kevin's super strong american accent
I imagine the real life "pope's exorcist" is just a guy who constantly brings priests out of police stations going "I have-a cured-a his possession. Mama-mia he is-a no longer going to attack-a the children."
i enjoyed the film a lot more than you did - once we had Russell Crowe doing that accent and riding around on his little Vespa i knew i shouldn't be taking it too seriously. plus Ralph Ineson as the voice of the demon! oh and 'the books are good ' was a callback to something Amorth had said a few times earlier in the film
Most of it bored me, but yes, when the "titties" thing happened almost everyone busted out laughing. Including myself. Then everyone was cracking their own jokes at different scenes which was the first time I didn't hear anyone shhh someone at the theater.
Love your videos! It would be awesome if you covered Lockwood and co. It’s a critically acclaimed teen supernatural series that was just cancelled by Netflix. However the show has tremendous support behind it and the fans are trying to get a new streaming service to pick it up. The cinematography and acting is fantastic, and the writing is just as good. Would love to hear your take on it, especially now that Netflix is axing a lot of their sci fi shows, I think it would be interesting to hear your take on whether that’s been good decision making on their part or not
@Blended Circuit to their credit the Catholics at least do fully believe in mental illness in the modern day and if something can be explained by that they wont perform an exorcism, theyll recommend psychiatric help. Are the people that receive exorcisms still having a psychiatric episode? Probably. But the church will at least try to acknowledge mundane answers before they turn to supernatural ones
@theashwoodfaerie I actually had a study unit about this and my lecturer was an exorcist mentored by the guy this movie is based on and he says that actual demonic possession is very rare and solemn exorcisms are a last resort. They go through every avenue before that, they consult physicians and psychiatrists and they try deliverance and less taxing methods because solemn exorcisms are very traumatizing.
If you're interested in modern exorcists, I recommend the podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie, specifically their episodes on Bob Larson (start with the episode "Ross and Carrie Get Some Exorcise: Teenage Exorcist Edition"). It's a very good investigative journalism podcast run by two ex-christians. The Bob Larson episodes go from ridiculous and funny to just downright horrifying. Bob Larson is an American exorcist who has been active for a very long time and he's honestly a total piece of shit. They attend a couple of his events and the shit he says and does is pretty bad. It's hard to believe that that kind of person is still out there making money off of vulnerable people
There are a couple people in the comments pointing out that modern exorcists always make sure to check for mental health issues first. While it might be true for some of them, it's also important to note that priests are not mental health experts. It also definitely does not apply to all exorcists. People like Bob Larson don't take those things into account which can become quite dangerous and lead people further into psychosis
"We don't have any income!" / Moves to a new country (which is insanely expensive) instead of just getting a job/selling the place via a brokerage. Perfect logic, no notes. /s
I really like that this implies that there’s some like hive mind aspect to the catholic church. Like one guy gets possessed and they’re all like “a disturbance in the force!”
I think part of the problem is that nobody told Russell Crowe that they spent the entire budget on him. One of the few flicks with a bad movie but neat ending
4:27 "Iiiii Am Legionnnn." No! It's "WE are Legion"! That's the goddamn point of Legion, that he's 30-something fused demons! They couldn't even get THAT right?!
Ive been seeing a lot of these soulless "checklist" movies lately. It was what was wrong with Wish, with Madam Web, with Eternals, etc. They just feel like a board room making a script based on a list of "successful movie features" and go along checking boxes with no passion or art.
"Were just a regular old family who inherited a haunted New York downtown sky scraper with an abandoned asylum in the basement and an abandoned nunnery on the top floor, so me and my family are just going to live there while I do some renovations, maybe put in a nice front door, see If I can find a nice welcome mat, I don't know. What no, it's fine my children are only a little possessed. Anyway got to go, been randomly hearing some weird choir of children singing from the morgue on the third floor, as soon as the power goes out again might go check it out. "
For the record, Catholicism does NOT believe that demons can meat puppet your dead body, or control you when you are sedated. But that's also because their demon lore is incredibly inconsistent, partly because they believe learning too much about demons will corrupt you, so it's better to be ignorant of how they work and just rely on God and being holy. Catholic Demonology is boring as shit and you shouldn't use it as a basis for a film. Use Occult Demonology and Medieval Demonology, it is more interesting. But also never cite Supernatural as a guide to any mythology ever please.
MRI's can't detect demonic possession, except for the movie The Possession (2012) apparently!🤣Also, The Rite (2011) is probably the most realistic exorcism movie I've ever scene. Not that I've scene an exorcism before, but it wasn't as off the walls with the theatrics as other films which is why it's my fav exorcism movie.
I watch this movie on the big screen and my showing was exclusively old people who seemed to think it was a much different movie, I absolutely cracked up at the breastfeeding joke though, I was only the only one to laugh
I want a cinematic universe where Samuel L Jackson shows up to recruit these two guys, the Warrens from the Conjuring universe, and Arnold Schwarzenegger from End of Days for the Avengers for Christ movie.
Hey Amanda! Just wanted to suggest that you should def do a video about White lotus season 1&2! I think it's perfect chaos show for your chanel and I would love to hear what you think about it. Love you and keep being yourself ❤️
The only good scene was when he baited the stupid demon to possess the goat. At least I remember it being a goat, I don’t remember how the movie went….
Went into this movie blind with my SO in theaters aaaannnnd was cackling throughout once we decided to not take the film seriously. That scene of Crowe on the scooter slayed us. The quips and comedic timing just made the film more heinously fun. Great popcorn movie. Unapologetically loved the film ha ha.
I feel like I really agree with you about it not mattering if the host body is just a corpse … because demons frequently seem to abuse their hosts in ways that would surely kill a mere non-possessed human. I mean, just take what has to be at least a top 3 favorite of turning ye olde head 180 degrees. Generally not a great move for the living. 🤷♀️
Ah, So in this movie about the cathlic Church, the little boy se$ually harasses people. And the poor church was tricked into doing the spanish inquesition. ... Thats a cinematic choice.
What made me laugh out loud was during the final showdown with Asmodeus, Amorth and Tomas were side-by-side chanting the exorcism prayer together. It's such a Dragonball Z moment, like exorcist Goku and Gohan doing a combined spiritual kamehameha against the devil, lol.
The Vatican thought about solving the problem right away but instead they chose to simply relocate the demon, assuming they would change their behavior and it would never happen again.
I don't see how they keep making these demonic possession movies thinking there's an audience for it. Yes, the original The Exorcist is a classic, but that film was kind of a one hit wonder. The concept of it all is laughable.
I had a weird relationship with this movie. Like I was looking for a recipe for pork chops and the ad that played for it was the trailer for this, I was so damn confused.
Honestly, while this sounds just...so dumb, I *am* genuinely interested in reading some of Amorth''s books. I'm very much not religious, but it's always fun reading things from wildly different viewpoints, and that kind of stuff CERTAINLY qualifies. Also yes to a exorcist cinematic universe. I want like 20 of these, fast and furious style. I want to see how stupid things get.
This kinda seems like a horror movie made for a general audience instead of a horror movie for horror fans and enthusiasts. Like there's enough to maybe startle someone with little to no experience with horror content, but not enough creativity and bite for those with more experience with horror content. Generally speaking, exceptions are always a thing.
The thing that annoys me the most about the American family going to the dad's abbey in Spain is that in a Catholic country like Spain you can't inherit a (formerly) religious building, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. 😂 Setting the whole thing in England would have made more sense because at some point in the past the Anglican Church DID give such properties to certain civilians (noblemen, high ranking military people). But I guess then we wouldn't have the montage of Russell C arriving by motorbike 😂
I know in England (or maybe it was Wales? Somewhere in the UK) there's that church that got turned into a Tesco but it had some kind of partial historical building status that meant they had to keep some of the Churchy Stuff, so there's like, stained glass windows behind the checkout
Imagine being the prop designer, making Spanish inquisition for the wall design in a big(?) Hollywood movie, and then posting it to Twitter or something. And hours later bombarded with replies from people excited for a video game adaptation called Dragon Age that you never heard of and definitely isn't working on.
I think the premise around the family being there dumb, and the rest being too similar to every other exorcist movie - but yeah, really enjoyed Russell in this
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How do you enjoy Russell's silly lil guy era?
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As an Italian, his accent is horrible, he isn’t even trying… but ok
i love you're version of it with the church memeber's posession. that would indeed be new at least.
@@bubblycider Yeah... I'm not Italian, but it sounded pretty stagey to me. And having heard a number of actual Italians speaking Italian, I didn't think it sounded too authentic when he was speaking the language either.
Sad thing is, I think this IS him trying 😕
You're really touched by the pig huh? I take it you don't eat pork.
Give me a exorcist story where we find out that the "possessed" person was never holding a demon but was used as a distraction. Because the real demon was possessing the normal appearing helpful person the whole time, using the whole situation to cause more pain and etc.
That's what happened in The Seventh Day. The exorcist priest was actually possessed by a demon, and used his position as an exorcist teacher to possess multiple priests he was training with other demons.
@@antrmar1 oo, thanks for the movie rec!
@@antrmar1is it good?
@@Ashbrash1998 It got 4.5 out of 10 on IMDb and 17% audiance score on rotten tomatoes so probably not
There’s a good Doctor Who episode with a similar premise
Just the fact they used dragon age inquisitions symbol and not the actual spanish inquisition one makes me lmfao so hard
Oh. My. God. That's *amazing.*
@@feathersflight Noone expects the Dragon Age Inquisition! lol
Came here to say this. Unbelievable
That’s iconic 💀
@@Canadian_Alygator how did I hear this in Bull's voice?
If you seen one Exorcist movie you seen them all. Arguing with Beelzebub and twisting women up into pretzel like shapes.
The Angel episode about exorcising a demon tho
Some at least work to keep things interesting, this felt like it had a trope checklist
@@shellsilvers came here to say exactly that. the only time i've really seen anything original done with it
@@shellsilvers yes, that is one of my favorites!
The only recent-ish one worth watching is The Rite. Actually extremely realistic as to how the Church does things.
16:25 IT'S NOT EVEN THE SIGN OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION IT'S THE SIGN OF THE INQUISITION FROM DRAGON AGE LMAOOOOOOOOOO
this whole movie is like "the worst horrors the church has committed were actually demons, trust me bro. honestly anything bad was probably the demons, of which there are definitely some" and yet the church didn't like it?
i wasn't really expecting a retcon of the spanish inquisition when i started watching this. but you know what they about expectations and the spanish inquisition
At least they answered the question of why we should even fear the demon possessing members of the church when the church is doing bad enough without them lmao
Yes, everything bad the catholic church has ever done was clearly just because of demon possession. Except sexually assaulting children and then covering it up apparently, but that's only worth mentioning because it traumatizes the abusive priests and gives the demons stronger arguments, right?
fucking yikes -_-
😂😂🤣
I mean, if this makes it look like the Church is claiming every wrongdoing was because of demons, that makes the Church look like bigger jerks. So it makes sense they wouldn’t like it.
The Seal of the Spanish Inquisition thing made me laugh so hard. Because that is straight up the just Inquisition symbol from Dragon Age Inquisition
To quote Varric Tethras:
“Well, Shit.”
"pope connected to the psychic priest network" wasn't on my bingo card.
Oh no it is its on the backside that or just use the free space in the middle
Oh yeah, they've got like a phone tree system.
Why do they always call a Catholic exorcist? I want "Sven Johnson--Lutheran Exorcist." He'd use passive-aggressive techniques mastered over years. Like serving endless hot dish and refusing to allow the demon to leave. Talking about recalking the tub. Long awkward silences. Horrifically out-of-tune gospel songs.
get their asses omfg
Please! I would watch the hell out of that! 😂😂😂😂
As someone who's met multiple self-proclaimed Protestant exorcists, only one of whom was even slightly convincing, I need this in my life.
Sven Johnson brother of Gus Johnson??
@@tamold3084 Oh you know Gus? Yeah that's his cousin over there. He had to get his mower exorcised some years back. It kept bleeding all over and speaking Latin. Craftsman, so that'll happen sometimes with those.
The secret demon name is Amadeus?! So I guess exorcists should just run through the most obvious demon names first. Can be finished and home in time for evening prayers.
Right? They could have just played that tiktok sound from a couple months ago that people were putting pictures of their cats over "Asmodeus...Satanus...Lucifer!"
For once I'd like these exorcist movies to pick a sleeper. I loved how Hereditary didn't pick Asmodeus, Beelzebub, or Satan, and instead picked King Paimon. I imagine Asmodeus and friends are pretty busy, they can't be responsible for every possession. Give me Malphas or something.
@@keystohellanddeath imagine when they actually possess someone, it's cause they're on vacation from commanding all those hellish legions and such.
You mean Asmodeus - Amadeus means 'loved by god'
@@hallamhal Now I want a parody demon movie where the fluffy love demon is summoned due to typo/spelling/autocorrect.
The line "Satan has infiltrated the church" is probably code for: the italian mob, Cosa Nostra, has infiltrated ranks by making sure clergy they control are being promoted. Some controlled by blackmail, some by means Cosa Nostra could pay. (Edited due to failing the Italian language)
It's "Cosa Nostra" without "la". I don't want to be an ass, I swear, but it's its proper name so it doesn't need a determinative article. Is like saying "The Amanda" in casual conversation instead of just "Amanda"
I know people like him and I promise you they 100% mean the literal devil has infiltrated the Vatican.
@gipsiusy thank you! That was embarrassing, but I really appreciate you took the time to tell me so I don't look so dumb 😅
@@Claudia000 nah, you're totally fine!! Don't be embarrassed!
I would honestly be more interested in watching a blockbuster thriller about the italian mob infiltrating the church than whatever this is lol
That seal is not the Spanish Inquisition's. It is the seal of Dragon Age Inquisition, the video game.
If a horror film has "based on a true story" as it's tagline then you can be sure it's full of bs. Hell, The Exorcist is a more faithfull adaptation of reality than half of this tripe
You're a better person than me, i would have written the tie in to the sponsor something like "Jesus wouldn't have gotten his feet wet if he used Vessi shoes!"
Fun Fact: A vast majority of bona fide 'demonic possessions' needing an exorcist are either cases of severe Schizophrenia or Possession-Form Dissociative Identity Disorder
"Fun"
Also psychological manipulation in very high stress environments. I've seen it over and over and over in the evangelical circles I was raised in. Take someone with trauma or chronic pain/illness and start telling them its because they're being "afflicted" or "persecuted" by the agents of hell. When your whole worldview hinges on eternal salvation or eternal damnation, being "afflicted " by hellish forces makes many people panic which results in things like heavy weeping, screaming, hyperventilating, becoming irrational, etc. It may not be speaking with the voices of Legion or climbing up walls, but it's what the run of the mill exorcism looks like in evangelical circles and its very disconcerting to see people pushed past their psychological and physical limits "for the glory of god"
That's why I'm not in love with Exorc!st movies. I have a really hard time suspending my beliefs at what, in real life, would be the totur!ng of a normal person with mental illness.
Basically what I'm saying is watch TALK TO ME when you can
I'm actually going to lose it at the Dragon Age: Inquisition symbol being used instead of the Spanish Inquisition symbol. Was it intentional??? Was there some inside joke that maybe Amanda didn't get, or did they genuinely mix it up??? Someone please tell me, I need to know
Who cares ? I'm glad you noticed, that's a fun fact, but does it make a difference ?
@@GTSN38I care because it's funny lol, you don't have to. Or have to reply to my comment 🤷Not forcing you to care, it's a silly comment on a video about a stupid movie pfft
How cool WOULD it be, if MRIs could detect demonic possession. "Yep, there's a biggun right there!"
We found the movie quite hilarious.
Writing "Satan was here" on the sternum or something.
"Ah these demons, they are so disrespectful, such graffiti..."
We are living in a goofy era of Russell Crowe between this and Unhinged but I’m here for it honestly
Oh how we have forgotten Noah. That's almost 10 years old, and I feel like it's more off the wall than this (and also religious retconning lol). Weird niche for him, but something something nickel, I would have a dime.
I absolutely lost it when they mentioned the Spanish Inquisition, because I grew up on Monty Python.
Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Nobody expects the Dragon Age Inquisition either, at least not in a horror movie
the kid did a really good job, it must have been so fun to swear and be so gross
^^^
The Pope suddenly knew Amorth was possessed because Snoke had formed a Force connection between them, and the Pope was about to hand off his lightsaber to Amorth through hyperspace.
underrated comment, made me chuckle
But then Frodo threw the pope’s seal ring into the fires of Mordor
@@Grim_Sister Until Surtur the fire giant arose clutching the ring, Hell-bent on committing Ragnarok
Gotta say the redacted documents don’t surprise me, covering up evil is pretty much the main goal of the Catholics at this point
tbh i would watch a pope's exorcist cinematic universe. it would be so stupid, but you also know they'd get into some wild shit eventually. like weird angel/alien hybrid shit, or just straight-up pulling things out of apocryphal texts and making them canon.
Hey Amanda, Italian here: Russell Crowe doesn't sound believably Italian at all. I mean, it's not the worst fake Italian I've ever heard (that episode of Happy Endings still makes me cringe), but you wouldn't mistake him for Italian. (Also, I only watched a snippet, but it's clear that whoever wrote the Italian dialogues isn't particularly familiar with spoken Italian. It sounds stiff and unnatural)
(Edit: did I say Italian enough times?)
Non sai che sollievo sia per me trovare, sotto al video di una delle mie youtubers preferite, un'italiana con cui piangere sull'ennesima volta che ci hanno TRUCIDATO la lingua... 😭
@@kronk2.094 Inserire meme di Spider-Man obbligatorio.
Però davvero, dio mio. Non mi ricordo cosa stavo guardando qualche tempo fa, ma siccome avevo i sottotitoli in italiano, quando parlavano italiano non comparivano sottotitoli (perché fanculo quelli con problemi di processamento uditivo, suppongo). Il problema è che gli attori l'Italia credo non l'avessero mai vista neanche in cartolina, e non capivo assolutamente nulla di quello che dicevano. Fun times.
@@IlyTheVampire Figurati che io, qui, ci ho messo un po' di tempo, e svariati "Ma perchè ca**o non mi vanno i sottotitoli?!?!?", prima di capire che se non c'erano era perchè stessero parlando """italiano""". E allora, dentro di me, qualcosa si è infranto per l'ennesima volta... 😢
Se penso che Charlotte di Bly Manor si sia prestata a un film del genere... 💀
@@kronk2.094 Quando l'ho vista ho pensato "nooooooooo, non ti accontentare di niente di meno di Flanagan - ma soprattutto non questo, che stai facendo???"
Comunque, mi hai fatto venire in mente quando ho visto Big Hero 6 e alla fine è partita Immortal e ho pensato "Oh, hanno fatto fare ai Fall Out Boy una versione in giapponese della canzone, okay." ... Non so quanto ci ho messo a capire che era in italiano... Oooops
oh man someone down below said it was shockingly good! thanks for the expertise
I've been stationed on Guam. It's a beautiful tropical island in the western Pacific that's just modern enough to be convenient but just isolated enough that nobody messes with you. Being reassigned there is *not* punishment!
09:24 "It's always nice when they do that" was quite cute for a review of a movie involving exorcisms
The upside down crosses always crack me up because that's just a symbol of saint Peter.
Listen, I was raised in a very traditional catholic environment, and Father Amorth was like, this really hardcore figure for us, kind of a hero... seeing this video with my background makes it twice as funny
I think you could do some really cool stuff with Christian iconography and make some powerful horror with it. For example, that shot of Mary rising is super sick, but then it just devolves into something campy and dumb. For once, I would like to see an exorcism movie portray demons not as vulgar jerks, but as truly incomprehensible beings, and do the same for angels. Because if you think about it, if they existed, they would almost certainly be unfathomable to the human mind. People constantly meme about "Biblically accurate angels"-which I should clarify the wheel beings with a thousand eyes are not "angels" according to the Bible, they're something else (seraphim are not angels in the Bible, malakim are, which are men with wings)-but I think you could create a film that's truly haunting if you portrayed these things as nigh omnipotent, eldritch, entities.
It's not quite what you're describing but have you listened to The Magnus Archives? It's not Christianity based but it has a few really interesting episodes that touch on it - I especially recommend episodes 19 and 20 "Confession" and "Desecrated Host".
Your kinda right, Seraphim aren't angels but they angelic beings that are considered higher ups then angels according to Judaism
the term "Biblically accurate angels" is misleading as the Bible and the Tanakh (the "Hebrew Bible") describe them in several different ways including as Just Winged Guys.
Yeah NGL I think I read the plot summary of this movie after watching Critical's video on it, and I had a problem with Asmodeus being the antagonist demon in this movie.
Y'know how -King Solomon- you deal with Asmodeus -in the Ars Goetia- ? You put a rotten fish in the victim's bedroom, and because Asmodeus couldn't stand the smell, he just fucked off.
This entire movie could have been solved by rotten fish!
Or just get a Star of David talisman.
That’s the blanket cure for all demon problems in Judaism
@@Grim_Sister honestly didn't know that, despite it kinda obvious when you think about it. Thanks for the information.
Islam has a Demon cure-all as well, called "Ayat Al-Kursi" (Verse of the Throne).
Basically a couple of Wikipedia searches would have solved this movie
Just once I want to watch an exorcism movie where the possessed becomes friends with their demon and is trying to prevent the exorcism. But the demon is draining the life out of them and they need to be exorcised but like eddie and venom, the mc and their demon are basically a couple.
You might enjoy Blackcoat’s Daughter then, it’s a good slow burn with a different take on possession kinda like this.
The Naruto way
@@Boggythefroggy i also though of that one
Honestly, why create an agonizing exorcism movie we've all seen before when a possession is a great way to meet new people? I mean think of it, you can be in the comfort of your own home when you encounter them, the demon may help you to cook if you don't know how to since they've gotta keep you healthy, you could learn a whole new language with their aid, you'll get to be *very* flexible, and you can learn countless about ancient matters that the demon would know like the back of their hand. It has the potential to become something *beautiful!*
I mean now that you mention it... Maybe Venom is just unironically the best exorcism movie out there lol
Fun fact, the symbol of the "Spanish Inquisition" from this movie was actually just yoinked from the internet, and it's actually the symbol of the Inquistion from Dragon Age.
I wanted to tell you this before I forget, the scene with the possessed boy and the 'you used to feed me mommy' think reminded me so much of a SNL skit you will have probably not scene because you are young and I'm old. Anyway its got Richard Pryor as the younger priest trying to push the devil out of Regan. At some point she says 'your momma eats kitty litter in hell' and that's a classic line. Followed up by 'dont you be talking about my momma'. Anyway I would put a link but I'm not sure that's allowed, track it down and watch it, you'll be amazed by the resemblance. Also Thanks! This was a great episode or show.
hah, reminds me of the German Club Nintendo comic where Wario summons demons (those comics were weird) and when one of them possesses Princess Peach she says "your mother cleans the bathrooms in Hell"
I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition to come into play, but nobody does I guess
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Let's add another layer of fun: Russel Crow actually sounds like an american trying to speak italian and in particular, he sounds like Kevin Costner in a 90s italian tv commercial (for a shoe brand) that is still mocked to this day because of Kevin's super strong american accent
I imagine the real life "pope's exorcist" is just a guy who constantly brings priests out of police stations going "I have-a cured-a his possession. Mama-mia he is-a no longer going to attack-a the children."
😂😂😂
i enjoyed the film a lot more than you did - once we had Russell Crowe doing that accent and riding around on his little Vespa i knew i shouldn't be taking it too seriously. plus Ralph Ineson as the voice of the demon!
oh and 'the books are good ' was a callback to something Amorth had said a few times earlier in the film
Russell is absolutely a highlight and the main point of enjoyment for the movie. it really is just the sequence of events that feel bland to me
Most of it bored me, but yes, when the "titties" thing happened almost everyone busted out laughing. Including myself. Then everyone was cracking their own jokes at different scenes which was the first time I didn't hear anyone shhh someone at the theater.
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I was honestly confused while watching the movie, but it did keep me laughing from start to finish 😂
Edward Cullen covering up the tittie grab ended me, I almost spitt out my drink 😂
Love your videos! It would be awesome if you covered Lockwood and co. It’s a critically acclaimed teen supernatural series that was just cancelled by Netflix. However the show has tremendous support behind it and the fans are trying to get a new streaming service to pick it up. The cinematography and acting is fantastic, and the writing is just as good. Would love to hear your take on it, especially now that Netflix is axing a lot of their sci fi shows, I think it would be interesting to hear your take on whether that’s been good decision making on their part or not
Wait, netflix cancelled it? I just started it yesterday and really liked it, now I'm sad
It was CANCELLED?!?!
the fact that there apparently still are 'real' exorcists in 2023 is just sad.
@Blended Circuit to their credit the Catholics at least do fully believe in mental illness in the modern day and if something can be explained by that they wont perform an exorcism, theyll recommend psychiatric help. Are the people that receive exorcisms still having a psychiatric episode? Probably. But the church will at least try to acknowledge mundane answers before they turn to supernatural ones
@theashwoodfaerie I actually had a study unit about this and my lecturer was an exorcist mentored by the guy this movie is based on and he says that actual demonic possession is very rare and solemn exorcisms are a last resort. They go through every avenue before that, they consult physicians and psychiatrists and they try deliverance and less taxing methods because solemn exorcisms are very traumatizing.
If you're interested in modern exorcists, I recommend the podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie, specifically their episodes on Bob Larson (start with the episode "Ross and Carrie Get Some Exorcise: Teenage Exorcist Edition"). It's a very good investigative journalism podcast run by two ex-christians. The Bob Larson episodes go from ridiculous and funny to just downright horrifying. Bob Larson is an American exorcist who has been active for a very long time and he's honestly a total piece of shit. They attend a couple of his events and the shit he says and does is pretty bad. It's hard to believe that that kind of person is still out there making money off of vulnerable people
There are a couple people in the comments pointing out that modern exorcists always make sure to check for mental health issues first. While it might be true for some of them, it's also important to note that priests are not mental health experts. It also definitely does not apply to all exorcists. People like Bob Larson don't take those things into account which can become quite dangerous and lead people further into psychosis
"We don't have any income!" / Moves to a new country (which is insanely expensive) instead of just getting a job/selling the place via a brokerage. Perfect logic, no notes. /s
out of the 20+ videos of yours I've watched, the ad placement in this one has to be the smoothest and funniest. little cackled I love this channel
13:23 "My nightmare is France winning the World Cup"...that makes two of us.
Greetings from Argentina ⭐⭐⭐
Father Amorth, loading a double barell shotgun: "Let's go...to Hell."
*cue the Doom soundtrack*
*loads shotgun with religious intent*
I really like that this implies that there’s some like hive mind aspect to the catholic church. Like one guy gets possessed and they’re all like “a disturbance in the force!”
In the next movie the Pope should use Cerebro to track down all the priests.
😂😂
I love comments like this one 😂👌 this and every mention of the the Force
I think part of the problem is that nobody told Russell Crowe that they spent the entire budget on him.
One of the few flicks with a bad movie but neat ending
I don't remember the last time you've been so *mad* about a movie. Absolutely fabulous.
"Chill Babycake"
-- Zeus, Thor: Love and Thunder
I had fun with him at least.
4:27 "Iiiii Am Legionnnn."
No! It's "WE are Legion"! That's the goddamn point of Legion, that he's 30-something fused demons! They couldn't even get THAT right?!
This video has the most concentrated sarcasm and sass I've ever seen from Amanda, and i love every second
The funniest thing in this movie still remains that "Spanish Inquisition" symbol 😂 Dragon Age Inquisition! I love how many comments are about this ❤
Ive been seeing a lot of these soulless "checklist" movies lately. It was what was wrong with Wish, with Madam Web, with Eternals, etc. They just feel like a board room making a script based on a list of "successful movie features" and go along checking boxes with no passion or art.
I just couldn't with the little boy when he was possessed. He looked so unthreatening, I just laughed every time he tried to be intimidating 😂
"Were just a regular old family who inherited a haunted New York downtown sky scraper with an abandoned asylum in the basement and an abandoned nunnery on the top floor, so me and my family are just going to live there while I do some renovations, maybe put in a nice front door, see If I can find a nice welcome mat, I don't know. What no, it's fine my children are only a little possessed.
Anyway got to go, been randomly hearing some weird choir of children singing from the morgue on the third floor, as soon as the power goes out again might go check it out. "
Not the Bart Simpson choke 14:50! they can’t be serious lol
It was my favorite
"Why you little!"
imma give you a like already in the beginning because that vessi commercial! hilarious and very relatable!
For the record, Catholicism does NOT believe that demons can meat puppet your dead body, or control you when you are sedated. But that's also because their demon lore is incredibly inconsistent, partly because they believe learning too much about demons will corrupt you, so it's better to be ignorant of how they work and just rely on God and being holy.
Catholic Demonology is boring as shit and you shouldn't use it as a basis for a film. Use Occult Demonology and Medieval Demonology, it is more interesting. But also never cite Supernatural as a guide to any mythology ever please.
MRI's can't detect demonic possession, except for the movie The Possession (2012) apparently!🤣Also, The Rite (2011) is probably the most realistic exorcism movie I've ever scene. Not that I've scene an exorcism before, but it wasn't as off the walls with the theatrics as other films which is why it's my fav exorcism movie.
The Rite is one of my favourite traditional sort of possession movie, some of the scenes are so dread inducing, I love ‘em.
Every time I see the phrase based on a true story I assume that maybe the first or last name could be correct but the rest is going to be nonsense 🤣
The kid playing Henry would make a perfect Gollum..yup, that is all I thought during all of his scenes.
Oh Amanda, you're always such a treat. I love the way you make fun of movies
I watch this movie on the big screen and my showing was exclusively old people who seemed to think it was a much different movie, I absolutely cracked up at the breastfeeding joke though, I was only the only one to laugh
I just stuck with Evil Dead Rise.
The only exorcism that truly works is a Chainsaw and Boomstick.
This movie is trying to be like John Constantine and Van Helsing but not great and fun like those films.
I want a cinematic universe where Samuel L Jackson shows up to recruit these two guys, the Warrens from the Conjuring universe, and Arnold Schwarzenegger from End of Days for the Avengers for Christ movie.
The posessed kid was looking a lot like Gollum and it's funny af
Holy shit Crowe on that little scooter is amazing 😂
Hey Amanda!
Just wanted to suggest that you should def do a video about White lotus season 1&2! I think it's perfect chaos show for your chanel and I would love to hear what you think about it.
Love you and keep being yourself ❤️
The only good scene was when he baited the stupid demon to possess the goat. At least I remember it being a goat, I don’t remember how the movie went….
Went into this movie blind with my SO in theaters aaaannnnd was cackling throughout once we decided to not take the film seriously. That scene of Crowe on the scooter slayed us. The quips and comedic timing just made the film more heinously fun. Great popcorn movie. Unapologetically loved the film ha ha.
“Puking up a cardinal” is a sentence I never thought I’d hear…like ever
Wow, how well you speak, very expressive and fluent 👌🏼👏🏻👏🏻🌺
The last exorcism and the blackcoats daughter will always be my favorite exorcism/demon possession movies
The Cult was a great band. "Oh, the heads that turn/ make my back burn/ and those that turn/ make my back, make my back burn."
Yeah I gotta say when I walked into this movie I certainly was NOT expecting…. Spanish Inquisition apologism?!?!!?!? Truly wild stuff
I’m so jealous you’re at Cannes! How do you get to go to all the festivals?!
love his little Ferrari sticker on his scooter - good to know that the popes exorcist is a tifosi lol
I feel like I really agree with you about it not mattering if the host body is just a corpse … because demons frequently seem to abuse their hosts in ways that would surely kill a mere non-possessed human. I mean, just take what has to be at least a top 3 favorite of turning ye olde head 180 degrees. Generally not a great move for the living. 🤷♀️
Ah,
So in this movie about the cathlic Church, the little boy se$ually harasses people.
And the poor church was tricked into doing the spanish inquesition.
...
Thats a cinematic choice.
What made me laugh out loud was during the final showdown with Asmodeus, Amorth and Tomas were side-by-side chanting the exorcism prayer together. It's such a Dragonball Z moment, like exorcist Goku and Gohan doing a combined spiritual kamehameha against the devil, lol.
The Vatican thought about solving the problem right away but instead they chose to simply relocate the demon, assuming they would change their behavior and it would never happen again.
I don't see how they keep making these demonic possession movies thinking there's an audience for it. Yes, the original The Exorcist is a classic, but that film was kind of a one hit wonder. The concept of it all is laughable.
i'm late to the party, but i hope they make more, it was so stupid that i actually enjoyed it.
DAI players, let us take time to reflect on how we contributed to the Spanish Inquisition
Great video! And that shirt looks wonderful on you!
I had a weird relationship with this movie. Like I was looking for a recipe for pork chops and the ad that played for it was the trailer for this, I was so damn confused.
Honestly, while this sounds just...so dumb, I *am* genuinely interested in reading some of Amorth''s books.
I'm very much not religious, but it's always fun reading things from wildly different viewpoints, and that kind of stuff CERTAINLY qualifies.
Also yes to a exorcist cinematic universe. I want like 20 of these, fast and furious style. I want to see how stupid things get.
This kinda seems like a horror movie made for a general audience instead of a horror movie for horror fans and enthusiasts. Like there's enough to maybe startle someone with little to no experience with horror content, but not enough creativity and bite for those with more experience with horror content. Generally speaking, exceptions are always a thing.
The thing that annoys me the most about the American family going to the dad's abbey in Spain is that in a Catholic country like Spain you can't inherit a (formerly) religious building, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. 😂 Setting the whole thing in England would have made more sense because at some point in the past the Anglican Church DID give such properties to certain civilians (noblemen, high ranking military people). But I guess then we wouldn't have the montage of Russell C arriving by motorbike 😂
I know in England (or maybe it was Wales? Somewhere in the UK) there's that church that got turned into a Tesco but it had some kind of partial historical building status that meant they had to keep some of the Churchy Stuff, so there's like, stained glass windows behind the checkout
Imagine being the prop designer, making Spanish inquisition for the wall design in a big(?) Hollywood movie, and then posting it to Twitter or something. And hours later bombarded with replies from people excited for a video game adaptation called Dragon Age that you never heard of and definitely isn't working on.
Everything you said is exactly how my friend described it. 😊
Also (spoilers for the movie):
The name Asmodeas makes me think of Redwall.
ooo I love Redwall
@@AmandaTheJedi Same!!
I think "the books are good" is a callback to what he said to the young Spanish priest when they first met.
watching this in the cinema with some friends was one of my favourite experiences, whole crows was laughing
D: you didn’t mention where he goes like “Woololoo” for no reason to two people
He must like Wooloos
idk if this is a coincidence or not but the Priests in the game Age of Empires actually do that lol
It wasn't dumb is more of a "been there done that" however Russel Crowe's character was really fun to watch.
I think the premise around the family being there dumb, and the rest being too similar to every other exorcist movie - but yeah, really enjoyed Russell in this
Maybe the real demons were the priests we made along the way?