What is the name of that one movie?

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

First of all, I'm very thankful for the existence of these forums because it answers a lot of questions.

Lets get to the point. I'm looking for a certain movie that takes place in the 1950's. Its about a boy who got possessed by an evil spirit or something. Similar to The Exorcist but its based on a true story. Any hints or ideas on what the name of the movie is? Just to let you know, its not on blu-ray yet.

[rragland]

Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

First of all, I'm very thankful for the existence of these forums because it answers a lot of questions.

Lets get to the point. I'm looking for a certain movie that takes place in the 1950's. Its about a boy who got possessed by an evil spirit or something. Similar to The Exorcist but its based on a true story. Any hints or ideas on what the name of the movie is? Just to let you know, its not on blu-ray yet.

"Possessed"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessed_(2000_film)

[quexos]

All I can think of is the 1960 version of Village of the damned but it's not just about one kid but a whole bunch with evil powers and stuff.

The movie you search is in color or black/white ?

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

I don't know if its black and white or color, never seen it. Oh well, eventually somebody will provide the answer since a lot of us watch too much tv.

[scweb13]

Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

First of all, I'm very thankful for the existence of these forums because it answers a lot of questions.

Lets get to the point. I'm looking for a certain movie that takes place in the 1950's. Its about a boy who got possessed by an evil spirit or something. Similar to The Exorcist but its based on a true story. Any hints or ideas on what the name of the movie is? Just to let you know, its not on blu-ray yet.

Are you sure you're not really thinking of the Exorcist?

From IMDB Trivia page for the movie "The Exorcist"

William Peter Blatty based his novel on a supposedly genuine exorcism from 1949, which was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland, and Bel-Nor, Missouri. Several area newspapers reported on a speech a minister gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a 13-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks. Robbie was born June 1, 1935, resided at 3807 40th Avenue in Cottage City, MD, and was a member of St. James Parish. He entered the seventh grade at Bladensburg Junior High in the fall of 1947, and was removed in the middle of his eighth grade year on January 15, 1949. He had experiences that ended on April 19, 1949. He re-enrolled in the eighth grade at Bladensburg Junior High for the 1949-50 school year, then spent from the fall of 1950 until June 1954 at Gonzaga High School in Washington, DC

[rragland]

Originally Posted by scweb13

Are you sure you're not really thinking of the Exorcist?

"Its about a boy" pretty much rules out "The Exorcist". I think he is referring to "Possessed".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessed_(2000_film)

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Thats the correct story on the bottom but there's a movie about it. There was a thread on this movie but I'm not going to spend so much time just to look for it.

[scweb13]

Originally Posted by rragland

"Its about a boy" pretty much rules out "The Exorcist". I think he is referring to "Possessed".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessed_(2000_film)

Did you not read what I quoted?? I just added "the Exorcist Trivia" so you wouldn't get too confused.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Its not a comedy

[abynum1]

The Exorcist was based on a an event that involved a boy being possessed, and if I remember correctly, it might have taken place in the 50s

[scweb13]

William Peter Blatty is the author of the book "The Exorcist".

[rragland]

Originally Posted by scweb13

Did you not read what I quoted?? I just added "the Exorcist Trivia" so you wouldn't get too confused.

Yes, I read what you quoted. I also read the OP's question. He is looking for a movie "about a boy".

[rragland]

Originally Posted by abynum1

oops

From Wikipedia:

Possessed is the name of a 2000 Showtime original movie starring Timothy Dalton, based on actual events which inspired the novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. In the movie, Dalton plays Father William S. Bowdern, a Catholic priest who conducted an exorcism involving an adolescent boy.

The film was released on DVD in the USA on October 2, 2001.


[edit] Plot Summary
Father Bowdern (Timothy Dalton) is a WWII veteran who is severely affected by a bad experience in one of the combats where he got physically hurt. In the first scene of the movie, we flash-back to one of Father Bowdern's dreams where he was hurt by a Nazi trooper while trying to help a wounded soldier (this combat takes place in France on All Saints’ Day in 1944). This incident contributes to his later alcoholism. Father Bowdern is teaching his students at SLU when, at the end of the lecture, as the students are leaving, the windows of the classroom are smashed by angry people in the outside. When father Bowdern gets out, he discovers that there is a strike. Black people are facing white people, and the white people are throwing stones towards the University building and especially at Father Bowdern’s class. He gets angry at them and when the police officers come, he asks them to arrest those people. The policemen go directly to arrest the black people and Father Bowdern attacks the cops. He is arrested. Father Raymond McBride (Henry Czerny) pays the bail to get Father Bowdern out of prison.

Robbie Mannheim (Jonathan Malen) is sitting with his aunt, Hanna (Piper Laurie), who is teaching him how to contact the ‘other world’. Robbie’s mother (Shannon Lawson) suddenly discovers the two at the Ouiji board. She scolds at Aunt Hanna for disregarding her request that she not expose Robbie to such ideas. Robbie disobeys his mother's demands that he stay away from the Supernatural as he enjoys the contacts. When Aunt Hanna dies, Robbie continues trying to reach the other world. One day one of Robbie's classmates during school is severely wounded in the hand when a desk falls on top of him. Robbie is blamed. Ultimately, he is expelled from school. His father (Michael Rhoades) demands why Robbie hurt his classmate. When Robbie explains to his father that he did not deliberately do that and the desk moved itself, his father does not believe him. During their conversation, the chair on which Robbie is sitting moves out from under him, making Robbie crash to the floor. Robbie’s parents feel someone or something is trying to harm their child. They feel he may really be ‘possessed’. They take him to the Lutheran Pastor Reverend Eckhardt (Richard Waugh), who understands what is happening to Robbie and takes him to his house to put him under exact monitoring (by putting him in a special room and attaching a light in front of his bed to help him record daily reactions by his camera). During Robbie’s stay, several things occur that convince Pastor Eckhardt that Robbie is being afflicted by demons: strange noise are made in the house, the wall clock is smashed, and Robbie falls into fits of rage and hysteria. When Pastor Eckhardt informs his wife that Robbie should be treated by the Catholics, Robbie severely attacks him.

Father Raymond McBride visits the family in their house to check Robbie after his parents go to the university requesting help. In an earlier scene and during one of Robbie’s hysterias, the parents find the letters SLU scrawled on his belly. When he enters his room, he is attacked and becomes convinced that the child is endowed with some sort of supernatural power. He convinces Father Bowdern to visit the family. They go with each other. Father Bowdern goes to Robbie’s room. Robbie becomes somehow comfortable in talking to Father Bowdern. When Father Bowdern tries to convince the parents that Robbie is all right, Robbie suddenly becomes hysterical. Father Bowdern becomes convinced that Robbie must undergo medical treatment. Father Bowdern and Father McBride go to Archbishop Hume (Christopher Plummer) to persuade him to practice Exorcism and treat the child. The Archbishop responds unenthusiastically. (He indicates that he is trying to strengthen the position of the Catholic Church and show the American society that the Catholics are modern). He requests to speak to Father McBride alone, and as a surprise, he nominates Father Bowdern to handle the issue.

Father Bowdern, with Father McBride and Father Halloran (Michael McLachlan) begin Robbie's treatment. They conduct several visits to him during which Robbie starts throwing temper tantrums. He scratches at them, vomits and urinates on them, and swears uncontrollably. During the treatment trials, Father Bowdern has flashbacks to his war experiences and dreads that this may be another failure. Robbie is transferred twice to two different churches. Finally, Father Bowdern manages to cure him. The room in the church where the exorcism took place is locked on Archbishop Hume’s orders.

[rragland]

Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

Alright, thats it

Man, I've given you the answer several times. Read the thread.

What do you want?

[abynum1]

Originally Posted by rragland

Man, I've given you the answer several times. Read the thread.

What do you want?

I don't think he needs to watch it now, you pretty much gave the whole story away in your post above.

[scweb13]

In The Grip Of Evil, a TV documentary about the alleged true story of the demonic possession that was behind William Peter Blatty's/William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

[abynum1]

Easy on the whip action. I got to be in Olive Branch, Michigan City, and Southaven next week.
Don't make me come over there!

[rragland]

Originally Posted by abynum1

Easy on the whip action. I got to be in Olive Branch, Michigan City, and Southaven next week.
Don't make me come over there!

ygm.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Thanks! Its about damn time. Laterz. Excuse my bad temper.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

I found the movie posted by Scweb13. Its called In The Grip Of Evil