NEW MOVIE: “Nefarious”… quite the demonic roller-coaster and very instructive

[Michie]

A new movie hits US theaters today, 14 April. Nefarious.

The title “Nefarious” has been used several times, so don’t confuse it with other movies.

I have had a sneak preview of the movie and I strongly recommend it, though not for children.

It is being listed as a “horror” film. It isn’t really that, though there are elements that are horrifying.

There is no exorcism in the movie, just the manifestation of the demon in the possessed man. There could be a sequel in which someone is going to need an exorcism… big time.

The basics of the plot. In an Oklahoma prison a serial killer is sentenced to die. A psychiatrist must sign off that he is not insane and therefore competent to undergo the death penalty. The problem is that the condemned prisoner has company: he is possessed by a particularly nasty demon. This demon is in complete control and wants something in particular from the “atheist” doctor.

This movie – made by devout and well-informed Catholics – is a roller-coaster of manipulation and psychological torture which one of my exorcist friends says is right along the lines of how demons really do attack.

The writers and cast managed to bring in a great deal of theology. It is a bit of a workshop on demons and Hell.

There were numerous supernatural phenomena that occurred during the making of this film. My same exorcist friend was invited to the premier, where all sorts of other clearly evil, things happened as well, probably because of witchcraft.

Clearly the Enemy doesn’t like this movie.

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[Michie]

Rather than getting bogged down — like every other movie — in diabolical phenomena and power, this one brings the viewer into the demonic mind …’

‘Nefarious’: Filmmakers Take the Mask Off Evil in New Exorcism Film

‘Rather than getting bogged down — like every other movie — in diabolical phenomena and power, this one brings the viewer into the demonic mind …’

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[Wolseley]

I may have to check that out.....when it makes it to streaming TV. I refuse to enter a theater any more, basically because I refuse to pay their prices, and I can't control the sound level. Also, when I'm watching a movie at home, I can pause the movie any time I want and go to the kitchen or the bathroom, and I also don't have to put up with the extremely rude, impolite, noisy, nasty, and combative people that seem to fill theaters any more.

I can actually list the last four movies that I actually saw in a theater:

1. Independance Day (1996)
2. Titanic (1997)
3. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
4. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

That should give you an idea of how long it's been since I was in a theater.

 

[Michie]

 

[Michie]

The new movie Nefarious is churning up movie theaters nationwide with its stark, gripping drama about spiritual warfare inside the soul of a death-row serial killer about to be put to death. The Stream’s John Zmirak called Nefarious “The Best Movie I’ve Seen in Years,” while columnist Chenyuan Snyder affirms that “Nefarious Delivers.” Other Stream staff have enjoyed it or plan to see it soon. So we decided to interview the man behind the story, Blaze TV commentator and author of A Nefarious Plot, Steve Deace.



John Zmirak:Nefarious, which you produced, is based on a novel you wrote. How different is the film version from the book?

Steve Deace: This movie serves as a prequel of sorts to my book A Nefarious Plot. Several lines from it are quoted in the film, and the Nefarious of my book is the one in the film, albeit with Sean Patrick Flannery’s personal touch. But the movie will show you the origin of my book. In 2020 I wrote a sequel to it called A Nefarious Carol, which we will also adapt into a film if this one is successful.



Please give us the “elevator pitch” for the movie, that people can use to decide if they want to see it, and bring their friends?

An atheist psychiatrist, who thinks he has all of life’s largest questions figured out, is about to learn there is much more to this death row inmate he’s assigned with evaluating. And in the process he’ll also learn he doesn’t have all the answers to the cosmos after all.

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A Nefarious Interview With Author Steve Deace - The Stream

We interviewed Steve Deace, the author whose book inspired the powerful new movie "Nefarious," which Christians are thronging to see.

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[Wolseley]

I will definitely have to see this one. The only other movie I can think of that has the same theme---an arrogant secular psychiatrist who airily dismisses the existence of the supernatural, good or evil---is The Entity, with Barbara Hershey, from 1982.

Although there is a scene in The Exorcism of Emily Rose where the female attorney is talking to the psychiatrist who attended the priest at one of the exorcism sessions.....the guy is obviously pretty shaken up; he's had his entire worldview exploded, and he's trying to come to terms with it:

Dr. Cartwright: That girl was not schizophrenic, she was not epileptic, or any combination of the two. I've seen hundreds of people with those problems. They have terrible afflictions, of course, but they don't scare me.

Erin Bruner: But what you saw in Emily that night? It scared you?

Dr. Cartwright: God, if I'd known, I never would have been there. I examined that girl before I drove back to the city. She was lucid and completely aware of the separate entity inside her. When she wasn't in its grasp, she was totally herself and completely normal, which contradicts the medical statement...

Erin Bruner: Crazy people don't know they're crazy.

 

[Michie]

SPOILER ALERT
If you haven’t seen the movie Nefarious, then read no further until you do. If you aren’t going to see it, you are missing out on one of the greatest films of all time. IMHO, Sean Patrick Flanery deserves an academy award for his portrayal of the demon Nefarious. It’s not many actors who can make you hate his character and feel sorry for it all at the same time. One of the great things about this film is how Flanery morphs into the demon and back into his human victim Edward almost instantaneously.

The movie is about an atheist psychiatrist, Dr. James Martin, who has to evaluate a condemned prisoner, Edward, for sanity. If sane, he gets executed; if insane, he will live. So the life or death call of Edward is 100% reliant on James’ assessment.

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The Age of Nefarious - Catholic Stand

I was able to better savor the nuances of what the demon Nefarious was actually saying about his tactics to drag us all to hell.

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[Michie]

Saint Pope Paul VI chillingly warned a half-century ago that “through some fissure, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God” (6/29/1972). The following year, we saw the release of the Exorcist film followed a half-century later by Nefarious.

Do these films share an ultimate message?

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From the Exorcist to Nefarious - Catholic Stand

Nefarious-Catholics should have a basic understanding of the reality of evil, we should also avoid being preoccupied with the topic.

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[Michie]

‘Nefarious’ Director Declares: ‘The Devil Attacks, but God Protects and Defends’

Despite recalling power outages, car crashes and demonic infestation on the set of the Hollywood movie, Cary Solomon says he’s ‘never gonna retire.’

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