Scott Derrickson went on to direct the better-received/higher-grossing horror flicks Sinister and Deliver Us From Evil, and will be helming the upcoming Marvel superhero movie Doctor Strange (he was also responsible for that terrible remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, but don't hold that against them), but his breakthrough feature is actually pretty great and massively underrated. Half-possession movie, half courtroom drama, The Exorcism Of Emily Rose is loosely based on the real-life case of Anneliese Michel, who suffered from epilepsy and died of neglect after her parents decided she needed to be exorcised instead of receiving actual medical attention. In the film it's a little more vague whether she was just ill or something demonic was going on. The things that went on during shooting are similarly ill-defined: star Jennifer Carpetner claims she was visited by something in her hotel room, her radio alarm frequently switching on in the middle of the night. And every time it would play part of the same Pearl Jam song, reciting the lyrics I'm still alive.
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