Please note this piece contains spoilers.
Having made a film about priests making a film, I find myself discussing cinema with actual priests more than most. Invariably, the fathers’ favourite film is The Exorcist, in which two priests battle the ancient evil that has possessed a pre-teen girl.
At the climax, Father Damien Karras leaps from the child’s window, plunging down 75 steps to his death, exorcising the demon and saving the child. A hero.
