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Scare factor: 2/5
Cinematography: 3.5/5

‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ is a film chronicling the haunting trial of a priest accused for negligence of a 19 year old college student whom he believed to be possessed by demons. An exorcism was attempted but failed, subsequently, Emily died a horrible death. In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognised the possession. Interestingly, although the jury found Father Moore to be guilty of ‘negligence leading to the death of Emily’, they did not require him to serve time in jail. So in a way, he walked away from the trial as a ‘free’ man.

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I like her hair! The gradations of colours and the curls!!!

The lawyer in-charge of the case, a woman who’s virtually an atheist, actually found her faith through this experience. By faith, I don’t mean faith in religion, rather, it’s the desire to ‘walk the right path’.

Can’t believe she was actually possessed by SIX demons! 2 of which I hadn’t come across much despite the voracious reading of horror stories and related trivial…
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My favourite horror scene:
Jason, Emily’s boyfriend, wakes up in bed only to find that Emily has gone missing… and then… the camera pans to show the contorted body of Emily on the floor, with her looking catatonic and spastic, limbs awry and pupils dilated. oooh… great shock effect!
Unfortunately I can’t find a picture of it.

Most comic scene:
During the ghastly exorcism scene, the priest told the doctor:
Dr… please take her vital signs!
Dr: her pulse is 180 beats per minute, it’s going too fast!
-_-

Most ‘illogical’ fact:
If the demons/evil influences could prevent the Dr from becoming a witness at the trial (he was a very credible witness as well as eye witness) so easily by running him down by a truck (and ya, I was expecting that scene, but I can’t say that I wasn’t wowed by its swiftness and abruptness!) then why don’t they just kill off the lawyer or the priest?
Then again, if that was done, I suppose there wouldn’t be any more story and I wouldn’t be writing this review now. Heh.

The best soliloquy:
The closing statement done by the lawyer… It’s all about fact and possibilities… Can’t remember it in totality now, but it was really good and probably effective in helping to secure a favourable ruling eventually.

The aftermath of the film:
oooo close to 12midnight… walking home, and guess what were the scariest things I saw?
- a burning smell (heh heh… but I think was due to the haze, it’s not uncommon anywayz…)
- a Malay guy (at least I thought he was Malay, from his speech and appearance) drinking 8.4% ALOCHOL!
- a Malay woman who whipped out her mobile and started yakking loudly in perfect Mandarin and Hokkien!