Well isn't that odd - American funny man (I don't really know what his main job is) "JonTron" finally put out another video, and it's a review of a fairly recent (and terribly, terribly amateurish and unconvincing) documentary by the original director of The Exorcist, William Friedkin, about a real life exorcism in Rome. The guy swears a bit, but he's pretty funny:
And then, today, I see this article in The Guardian, which seems just a co-incidence:
Boy whose case inspired The Exorcist is named by US magazine
The article gives some details of the case, which dates back to 1949. If they are correct (a big "if"), and comparing it to the Rome in Friedkin's flaky documentary, it would indicate that demonic possessions is not what it used to be.
Long time readers would know I am not totally averse to "woo"; I think I even count as more than merely "woo curious". But I've never been all that sold on demonic possession. And, as it happens, I've only ever seen little bits of The Exorcist, and feel very confident that it would not be at all unsettling for me. I think it looks very dated and ludicrous, and find it hard to believe that it did convincingly scare people back in the day.
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