Tag: demons

• Updating Exorcism Cinema List

  

  A year ago, Christopher Olson and I published a book on the representation of exorcisms in cinema. Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema (November 2016) was a comprehensive analysis of films across time and culture for the common themes surrounding who was the possessed and who was the exorcist. This analysis concluded […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 25, 2017

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Catholicism, demonic, demons, devils, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcist, Islamism, Judaism, possession

• Cataloging Exorcism Cinema

  

  For the past couple years now, we have been working on this project analyzing the tensions in exorcism cinema. We are currently writing a book on the topic, and part of the research for this book has been to track down and catalog all of the movies that in some way depict possession and exorcism. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 14, 2015

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  demons, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcism movies, exorcist, horror, horror films, horror genre, possession, religion

• Deliver Us From Evil: The Danger of Possessing Men

  

  As we have repeatedly seen during this project we are calling Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, there appears to be a narrative made popular by the success of The Exorcist (1973). There is a reason we like to say that the 1973 movie is the one that started it all, even though there had been films […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 1, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Africa, Amityville, animals, Blackwater Valley Exorcism, Conjuring, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, demons, Eric Bana, evil omens, exorcism, Father Karras, found footage, infection, Iraq, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesuit, Joel McHale, Jungler, minutia reception, Olivia Munn, Possessed, Ralph Sachie, saints, Scott Derricson, The Devil Inside, The Doors, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, The Rite, true stories, war

• From Reaffirming to Challenging Traditions: A critical comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II

  

  Christopher Olson and I presented our first analysis for the exorcism cinema project at this year’s Midwest Popular Culture Association conference. We subsequently wrote the presentation as a paper that would go in a book we are developing. We just submitted the book proposal last night, and now this morning you can read this analysis […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 26, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Sexuality

  agency, demonic possession, demons, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, horror, horror movies, patriarchy, possession, sexuality, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism

• 5 Things People Believe About Demons, Exorcisms and The Spirit World

  As All Hallow’s Eve approaches, and the dark veil between the land of the living and the land of the dead lists, we in the Western world turn to concerns of all things supernatural. But it is not just Halloween that propels people to be worried about how the spiritual plan can impede in this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 30, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  asuras, Buddhism, Catholicism, demons, dibbuk, evil, exorcism, exorcist, ghosts, Hinduism, Islamism, jinn, Judaism, Pentacostals, possession, rakshas, Satan, shaydim, spirits, The Exorcist, The Rite

• Legion: Or, the Exorcism Movie that Makes Me Sad for Roddy Piper

  

  I recently came to be interested in professional wrestling. For awhile there — as in most of my life — I thought wrestling to be beneath me, an entertainment that degrades those who do it and those who watch it. I was wrong: there are many layers to this sports entertainment, and it is quite […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  agency, alcoholism, Baptism, Baptist, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Costa Chica, Dave Bautista, demons, epilepsy, exorcism, exorcist, Hulk Hogan, Legion, Mexico, molestation, pigs, post-verbal, Professional Wrestling, rape, Roddy Piper, Rowdy Roddy Piper, sports entertainment, The Rock, WWE, WWF

• Feminist Tensions in The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part 2

  

  At the Midwest Popular Culture Association‘s 2014 conference, Chris and I presented the first analysis from our exorcism cinema project. The presentation is titled: Feminist tensions in exorcism cinema: Case study analysis and comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II. What follows are the notes for the presentation, which constitute an […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 6, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abalam, abjection, Aliens, Barbara Creed, Bible, Carnival of Souls, Carol Clover, Carrie, Cat People, Christianity, Constantine, demonic, demons, empowerment, Eve, evil spirits, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, found footage, gender, horror movies, monstrous-feminine, Noel Carroll, oppression, possession, Rosemary’s Baby, Satan, sexuality, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, women

• Sir Anthony Hopkins Performs an Exorcism in The Rite

  

  Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of those interesting actors. Best known as an incredible actor throughout his entire career, sometimes he will do movies that are, for lack of better words, slumming it – doing a movie for a paycheck. Freejack. Alexander. The Edge. The Wolfman. Red 2. To be fair, I cannot really blame […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 17, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Anthony Hopkins, Baal, Catholic Church, cats, Colin O’Donoghue, demonic possession, demons, Devil, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Freejack, mules, sexuality, The Devil Inside, The Exorcist, The Rite, toads, Vatican, voice, witches

• [REC]2: When Possession Becomes Infectious

  

  If you are not aware of it, then I should warn you — we are kind of in a period where zombie fervor has some what taken over American pop culture.  We’ve been in this period for awhile now, over a decade in fact, tracing back to movies like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later… (2002), […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 20, 2014

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  28 Days Later, antidote, biohazard, Catholic Church, cops, Dawn of the Dead, demons, evil children, exorcism, exorcist, experiments, infection, possession, Quarantine, rabies, Resident Evil, science, Shaun of the Dead, Spain, Vatican, viral, virus, zombie apocalypse, zombies, [REC], [REC]2

• Amityville II: The Possession and Incest

  

  So…this movie. The Amityville Horror (1979) has had a long lasting cultural impact, spawning a remake in 2005 and numerous sequels, prequels, sidequels, TV references, and more. Based on a true story, and another example of a supernatural occurrence investigated by the Warrens (of The Conjuring fame), the original film focuses on a family where […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 4, 2014

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Amityville, Amityville Horror, B-movie, Burt Young, camp, Catholic Church, Damiano Damiani, Defeo, demonic possession, demons, Evil Dead, exorcism, exorcist, ghost hunter, Hans Holzer, horror, incest, Italian, James Olson, Lutz, nonfiction, parapsychology, pedophilia, possession, rape, schlock, Vatican II