I AIN'T SKEERED; It's easy to make fun of demons while you're still in the theater...; THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

From: Santa Fe Reporter | Date: September 14, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

When serial killers, extraterrestrials and Rob Schneider all fail to terrify, Hollywood can still pull out the ol' demonic-possession card to make us feel nervous when we get up to go wee in the middle of the night. It's not really such a preposterous idea, or anyway not as preposterous as Rob Schneider, since we employ metaphors of possession all the time ("I don't know what I was thinking"; "Something made me do it"; "He's just not himself," etc.). Our very language conditions us to experience some states as ego-alien, with the possibility of being compelled to do and say frightening things ...

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