Dispelling Ones Demons

We get off to a late start this morning what with the early rise of yesterday and the late arrival of bedtime last night, and its a pretty good job too because no sooner have we been awake for an hour or so we begin to wonder what we'll do today.

It doesn't take long to decide upon going to the cinema to watch The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. So off we trot, get tickets, popcorn, drink and sweets and settle ourselves down in the virtually empty cinema.

The film itself is quite good and plenty scary enough especially considering its "based on a true story" (or so the foot high lettering stated at the beginning of the film). So with that in mind, when we get back we do a bit of googling to see if we can find out any more info.

Isn't it amazing how Hollywood can magically transform the phrase "based on..." to something more akin to "Not remotely related to...". After a bit of digging around we discover that in fact Emily Rose is a moniker for Anneliese Michel, who was not from America, but Germany. She had a history of Grand Mal epilepsy since 1968 which remained with her until 1976 when she finally died of Pneumonia and emaciation - a period during which the attacks came and went, and when she was lucid she was quite able to do ordinary things. A slightly different tale from Emily Rose who was stricken with possession and shortly thereafter died after exorcism failed to remove her demons. Anyway, there is a pretty good article about "the real Emily Rose" should you care to read it and are interested, and you can even watch some videos and recordings of alleged exorcisms in Russia if your daring enough.

I tell you, maybe I should get someone from Hollywood to write a screenplay of my life story, it would be a darn site better reading than this blog! ;)

Posted by Abi on the December 4, 2005 9:09 PM