Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The exorcism of Emily Rose states "based or true events ". It's not. It's a fictional story loosely related to a sad story which happened actually in Germany. There is been always struggle between believers and non-believers. But there is a line which Agnostics stands. And there is a vast spectrum here. Anyway, as an audience there are major significations between those lines. As an Agnostic one which prefer to be a believer by the reason not faith, this film was bothering. Let's tell you way.A young girl tragically dies during a so called exorcism ritual. She stopped taking medicine before she got worse. Clearly she suffered from something but that was not supernatural. Our brain is very sensitive and complicated. It can be learned to how perceive and see the world inside and outside us. Emily raised in a Catholic family. She majorly learned how to believe the world she lived in. She suffered pain? Yes, but that was her mentality state. If see felt happiness that was a mental state too.People see and hear things that others could not. They are special in their mental states not in personality or state of being. The have distorted images from their minds and no clues to separate them from each other or understand them. So they need "unknown "to explain it. When we have a headache something happened in our body. No entity from outside tries to occupies our life. When the pain grows we will try to find the reason. Pain needs attention not rituals. In serious events it will need more attention and close treatment. But there is no spiritual treatment for that except finding peace for our body and mind. At the end, this film was so disappointing. Clearly says that something happened from outside and something from outside our hands ended it. But in a good way, by the life a young innocent girl to suffer. Sadistic ...

The exorcism of Emily Rose is categorized as a horror film but in my opinion, it is more of a courtroom drama, with bits of horror thrown in. Which isn't to say this film is not scary- some scenes are genuinely unsettling, and all the credit should go to Jennifer Carpentar who plays the possessed Emily Rose as good as any since Linda Blair. To its credit the acting is also quite good and with thespians such as Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson it better be. The pacing is good and the back and forth scenes between the exorcism and the court is swift and without any jagged effects. This is a good film to watch but beware- it isn't strictly horror.

The true story this is based on is brutal and the way these filmmakers chose to change it is crass and cruel to people who suffer from physical and mental health issues. I don't understand a culture that thinks that demons could possess a young woman and denying her medical care while using Catholic magic powers would cure her.If you haven't read up on the true story behind the film of the exorcism of Annelise Michel in Germany I highly recommend you look into it and then see if this exorcism needed to be defended. Or any other exorcism done on a mentally ill or "disobedient" young person.Beyond that the film is cliché and dull. It's also not scary at all despite some good acting by the woman who plays Emily Rose. I'm disappointed Laura Linney did this film.

This film, loosely based on a real case occurred in Germany, tells the story of a Catholic priest, tried and charged with negligent homicide after an exorcism gone wrong. Directed by Scott Derrickson, which also provides the screenplay with Paul Harris Boardman, the film stars Laura Linney.This is a film made in an original way: based on the traditional formula of exorcisms movies, it innovates basing on the consequences of the exorcism. Its not for all audiences, contains some shocking scenes for sensitive people, but is much lighter (visually) than other similar films. Terror is more psychological than visual, although Jennifer Carpenter, who plays Emily, be excellent in the production of frightening scowls and grimaces. The film manages a very open attitude towards the exorcism, as the court exposing arguments for and against what happened. The film doesn't assume that the devil exists, although its understood throughout the film.The interpretation of Jennifer Carpenter is regular, only highlights in the horror scenes, contrasting with the good interpretation of Laura Linney (who plays Erin, a skeptical defense lawyer confronted with something beyond her understanding) and Tom Wilkinson, who gave life to a priest visibly guided by faith rather than reason. Unfortunately, almost all the other characters are mere props, never deserve more development. Another major flaw of this film are the special and visual effects. In certain scenes, they result very well and can scare enough but, at other times, they are so weird, so poorly made that seem ridiculous, especially when we see it a second time. The soundtrack sought to accompany the film, but its not different from what we hear in hundreds of other horror movies.