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Post by Tigress on Sept 13, 2005 4:16:16 GMT -5
Blending Faith and Fear
The director of 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' is a devout Christian for whom creating horror films is an expression of faith.
By Marshall Allen
Growing up as a fundamentalist Christian, Scott Derrickson says he developed an intimate understanding of fear. Now a filmmaker, Derrickson hopes to instill some of that terror in his audience with horror movies like "The Exorcism of Emily Rose."
A graduate of USC film school, Derrickson co-wrote and directed "Emily Rose," which opens nationally Friday. Though he is no longer a fundamentalist, Derrickson remains a devout Christian whose faith infuses his work. ยป Continue...
Click here to view the 'Emily Rose' trailers. (PG13 rating)
An interview with director Scott Derrickson.
The true story on which this film is based.
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Now I don't know about you, but I love movies that have a basis in real or supposed occurances (like predecessors The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror).
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Post by Tara on Sept 13, 2005 7:19:28 GMT -5
Some people were offended by it. There is breif mention of it in the Exorcism thread. |
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Sept 13, 2005 22:31:22 GMT -5
I can't even tell you personally how upset it would make me to watch that movie. Period. It's not so much that I don't respect everyone wanting to have a little scare and a good time, it's that someone sees an epileptic in public and automatically thinks that they're demon possesed. If someone can seperate a good time watching this film from a genuine medical problem, then that's good.
My brother and his girlfriend did go see this movie and did not really walk away feeling they got an answer whether she was demon posessed or not. I've no answers either. Even with reading her back story a bit ..I wonder if it wasn't her medication. Sometimes it takes several different medications to get one that works best. The first one I was on didn't work for my kind of siezures and made them worse. The med I'm on now seems to work better. Not that I've hallucinated or anything like that. But it just is a matter of medication.
I'd love to talk with the director with this film...but I wouldn't want to judge him. My gut feeling goes with that he was going for a scare, a blair witch "this is the true story of" kind of deal, not whether this girl actually was demon possessed. But the guy has to make a buck.
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Post by dianaholberg on Sept 14, 2005 7:18:19 GMT -5
I don't know that we'll ever get answers... the Church says she was not possessed, and it seems likely that depriving her of medication may have caused her death. That's not common practice.
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Sept 14, 2005 8:41:03 GMT -5
Even if she did not have epilepsy, going off epileptic drugs would have caused her to go into epileptic shock, which in her case caused death. I question her parents just as much as I question the priests. I understand the girl did not want to be put in a facility and force fed, I understand that.. but I wish she would have at least kept taking her medicine. That's just so sad. I don't know who to be more mad at. How long ago was this anyway?
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Post by dianaholberg on Sept 14, 2005 19:58:33 GMT -5
According to the article Tiger posted, she came down with epilepsy in 1968... they sought help in 1970... she died in 1976.
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Sept 15, 2005 1:05:06 GMT -5
Sometimes though people do see things right before they have a seizure. People see things or things be come louder during migraines too. Before I got on medication for seizures, I would have migraines(granted I've had migraines since I was about 16 or so) that would completely stop and then I'd have siezures. I'd see a thin blue film over things if they were reflected in the light, or see little white lights out of the corner of my eye, and I was frightened of that, big time. Common thing during migraines though.
It is a frightening experience because you have completely no control over it, and I'm sure it scared the hell out of my parents.
My neurologist and I haven't determined if this is epilepsy totally or not. I am on a much better medication than what I started out with. He did not put me on the first medication, my regular physician did, while it did curb the siezures, it also made me very lethargic and I cried all the time. All the time. But my neurologist said, for the siezures I have, Dilatin could have made it worse. So I was more than happy to wean myself off of that med and start on my new one.
I typically avoid epilepsy message boards and the like. A lot of it is very depressing. It isn't that I don't want anyone to talk to about it, it's that I don't know if I want to see the path I'm on, and a movie sure as hell ain't going to help brighten my outlook, know what I mean? I could tell you that I've been told some nasty things by doctors, just nasty. I've been told I should not have children, all sorts of junk. I was so glad to see the neurologist I'm seeing, and so relieved, because it was a kind place...everybody there was so sweet. He told me that it would be certainly ok to have children if I were to be monitored carefully.
I don't know what Neurologists knew about Epilepsy back then and how many drugs were available. For some people it's a mixture of drugs that work. You can't help but feel sorry for this girl and I would like to know how her parents feel about this man making a movie out of her terrible time.(perhaps they are gone now) It would be one thing if he were actually wanting to ask the question of if she were demon possessed or was not on the right medication..but the medical community failed her and it seemed to me the priest did too, clearly-and now he wants to get some money out of her suffering. Well way to go.
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Post by dianaholberg on Sept 15, 2005 4:07:35 GMT -5
Pandora, with God all things are possible. You pray for the grace to raise children and He will be faithful. Just keep in mind that the doctors are well-intentioned... it sounds like the one who told you not to have children was the general practitioner -- the one who gave you the drug that had you crying all the time? So maybe he hasn't seen the success that your neurologist has, and has only seen folks crippled.
What do you mean about the priest wanting to make money out of her suffering? Did the priest sell her story? I hadn't heard that before...
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Sept 15, 2005 13:39:53 GMT -5
I know most doctors are well intentioned, it was the way he said it. And no, I'm not mad at my regular physician for putting me on the first medicine no one knew.
Oh , and I meant to say that the movie director clearly wanted to make something out of it too by making money off of it, not the priest... I would hope that some where he's got some guilt over that. I don't know.
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