Notable Exorcisms• Salvador Dalí is reputed to have received an exorcism from Italian friar, Gabriele Maria Berardi, while he was in France in 1947. Dali created a sculpture of Christ on the cross that he gave the friar in thanks.
• Anneliese Michel was a Catholic woman from Germany who was said to be possessed by six or more demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism in 1975. Two motion pictures, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Requiem are loosely based on Anneliese's story.
• A boy identified by the pseudonym "Robbie" a.k.a. "Robbie Doe" was the subject of an exorcism in 1949, which became the subject of The Exorcist, a horror novel and film written by William Peter Blatty. Blatty heard about the case while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University. The exorcism was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland and Bel-Nor, Missouri by Father William S. Bowdern, S.J. and a then Jesuit scholastic Fr. Walter Halloran, S.J.
• Mother Teresa allegedly underwent an exorcism late in life under the direction of the Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D'Souza, after he noticed she seemed to be extremely agitated in her sleep and feared she "might be under the attack of the evil one."
• Kuba "The Demon Slayer", an ordained Pentecostal minister and Metro Cleveland Security officer while on duty at the downtown Cleveland Greyhound Bus Station allegedly successfully performed a demonic exorcism on a man who was violently out of control in front of multiple eye witnesses in 1999. The incident has been considered by certain ministries and paranormal groups as one of the rarest documented cases of exorcism in the US as well as one of the only documented cases of a public exorcism in the US.
Exorcism
Exorcism has been a popular subject in fiction, especially horror.
• Supernatural
• The Dybbuk (1914 play by S. Ansky)
• Soul Obsessiona 2007 novel by Amy Wolff Sorter, which has an account of a Jewish exorcism.
• The Exorcist (1971 novel by William Peter Blatty)
• The Exorcist (1973 and 2000 movies), and its sequels and prequels, were inspired by Catholic exorcism ritual and folklore based on the novels by William Peter Blatty).
• Repossessed (1990 comic movie starring Linda Blair and Leslie Nielsen)
• The Biggest Douche in the Universe (2002 South Park television episode)
• Kya Dark Lineage (2003 video game)
• Constantine (2005 movie) is based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer.
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005 movie) was inspired by the Anneliese Michel case.
• Requiem (2006 German-language movie by Hans-Christian Schmid) is based on the Anneliese Michel case.
• An American Haunting (2006 movie)
• D.Gray-man (2006 Japanese animation series by Hoshino Katsura)
• A Haunting Shows reportedly true stories many involving demons and exorcisms
• Stigmata (1999 film starring Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Bryne)
• Grudge 2 (2006 English movie based on the Japanese Ju-on series)
• El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2008 movie directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo Del Toro)
• 1920 (2008 Bollywood movie)
• True Blood (2008 HBO television series)
• Apparitions (2008 TV series)
• Boys Do Cry (2007 Family Guy episode about the town of Quahog trying to exorcise Stewie, forcing the family to leave Rhode Island)
• Paranormal State (2008 A&E TV series)
• John Safran versus God, an Australian documentary containing a supposed exorcism of its host, John Safran.
• Haunted Homes
• Days of Our Lives Marlena is possessed by a Demon while in Dimera's care.
Down a dim corridor...in a tiny, locked room...out of bounds to all but a tormented few, is the cave of spirits...a home for the dead and last hope for the possessed.