The International Society of Exorcists, made up of about 250 Catholic priests who practice exorcism, has criticized the horror movie The Vatican Exorcist starring Russell Crowe. The Guardian reported that the organization called the picture an “unreliable leap” (a subgenre of horror that focuses on violence and mutilation).
According to the creators, the plot of the film was inspired by “the actual documents of the Holy Father Gabriel Amort, the Vatican’s chief exorcist.”
In 1991, the Italian priest Amort became one of the six founders of the International Association of Exorcists. He was the president of the association until 2000. In 2016, two years after the association was officially recognized by Pope Francis, Amort died at the age of 91. Prior to his death, the priest agreed to give filmmaker Michael Patrick Kaczmarik the rights to two of his memoirs, The Exorcist Tells His Story (1994) and The Exorcist: More Stories (2002). According to Amort herself, she performed more than 160,000 exorcisms in her lifetime.
The International Association of Exorcists said in a statement that the film’s plot, which focuses on a conspiracy in the Vatican, “raises “unacceptable doubts” about who the real enemy is: the devil or the church authority? makes it.
Representatives of the organization emphasized that the tape showed “the opposite” of how the exorcism was carried out according to the instructions of the Catholic Church. The association also promised to issue another statement after The Exorcist of the Vatican is published. The cassette, which hit theaters in India on April 7, should begin its releases in the United States on April 14.
The film was directed by Julius Avery, who previously directed the crime thriller Youngblood with Ewan McGregor, the military horror movie Overlord, and the superhero movie Samaritan with Sylvester Stallone.
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