https://vo.rs/tags/the-exorcist/Latest from the The Exorcist desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-possession-film-canon/<p>Possession is the horror of losing the one thing you assumed was yours to keep: the self, the body, the private space behind the eyes. Where the haunted-house film puts the horror in a building and the monster film puts it in a creature, the possession film puts it inside a person you love, and turns the sufferer into both victim and monster at once. It is also the genre most nakedly about belief. To be possessed presupposes a spirit, a demon, a soul worth stealing, and so these films are forever staging arguments between faith and reason with a girl&rsquo;s contorted body as the debating chamber. The subgenre&rsquo;s recent religious turn, and why it keeps returning, I unpack in <a href="https://vo.rs/screen/the-possession-film-and-the-return-of-the-religious/">the return of the religious</a>.</p>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000