New supernatural horror The Ritual, starring The Godfather's Al Pacino and Godzilla x Kong's Dan Stevens, has unveiled its first trailer – and it looks chilling, if a little... familiar. The pair star as two priests, who are both wrestling with more than dark forces, in the fright-filled flick...
Directed by The Fare's David Midell, who co-wrote the script with Enrico Natale, the film takes inspiration from the well-documented real-life case of Emma Schmidt AKA Anna Ecklund, a Catholic-born young woman who was subjected to a five-month long exorcism back in 1928, after it was alleged she'd been possessed by a demon. In reports from that time, Schmidt begun exhibiting strange behavior when she was just 14 years old, but was 46 at the time of her final exorcism. Over the years, though, there has been some doubt cast over her true identity, with many voicing suspicions about how all of the written accounts were deliberately misleading.
