I scratched another Saturn Award winner for Best Horror Movie off of my list of movies to watch yesterday when I rewatched the 2005 winner, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.”“The Exorcism of Emily Rose” was released on Sept. 1, 2005 and went on to post gross revenues of over $140 million.
The movie was directed by Scott Derrickson and starred Jennifer Carpenter in the lead role of Emily Rose. Other actors appearing in the film included Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Campbell Scott.
For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, it’s about a college student, Emily Rose, who supposedly becomes possessed by six demons. She seeks medical attention, but when treatment and medications don’t work, she and her devotedly Catholic family turn to their parish priest for help.
The priest does all he can, but Emily eventually dies from a combination of starvation and stress to her body from her possession experience. After her death, the priest, Father Richard Moore, is put on trial for criminal negligence in connection with Rose’s death.
Moore is represented by a talented, but agnostic, lawyer, who begins to have a number of supernatural experiences during the course of the trial. In the end, Moore is left with having to explain his actions to a jury of his peers, who ultimately hold his fate in their hands.
The most interesting this about this creepy movie (and it is creepy) is that it’s loosely based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German Catholic girl who died in 1976 after several unsuccessful exorcism attempts. However, the story of “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” was heavily altered for purposes of the movie.
In the end, I enjoyed the satisfaction of scratching another Saturn Award winner off my list, and I’m edging closer to having watched all of them in order. Award winners for Best Horror Movie left on my list include “The Descent” (2006), “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007), “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (2008) and “Drag Me to Hell” (2009).
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