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Synopsis: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the evangelical Reverend Cotton Marcus was raised by his father to be a preacher. He agrees that the filmmaker Iris Reisen and the cameraman Daniel Moskowitz make a documentary about his life. Cotton tells that when his wife Shanna Marcus had troubles in the delivery of their son Justin, he prioritized the doctor help to God and since then he questions his faith. Further, he tells that exorcisms are frauds but the results are good for the believers because they believe it is true. When Cotton is summoned by the farmer Louis Sweetzer to perform an exorcism in his daughter Nell, Cotton sees the chance to prove to the documentary crew what he has just told. They head to Ivanwood and they have a hostile reception from Louis's son Caleb. Cotton performs the exorcism in Nell, exposing his tricks to the camera, but sooner they learn that the dysfunctional Sweetzer family has serious problems.
Director(s): Daniel Stamm
Production: Lionsgate
  7 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
2010
87 min
$40,990,055
Website
619 Views


The Vatican has... you said have 20, 25...

sanctioned exorcists on the staff.

Now they have over... well over 300.

Not just for weddings!

And... you know they're not telling us everything.

And that is only for capitals. They get...

They get all the press cause they got the

movies and the script. So the...

possibly nothing... the reality of it.

That exorcism are performed by every

religion all over the world.

Local boy Cotton delivers his first exorcism.

As a little boy I thought this was on

every newspapers around the world.

Tell us what your father does?

He fights for the demons

and the vampires, and ghosts. All the munsters.

He fights all the ghosts, and

demons and the vampires?

And the monsters.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Does your father believe in ghosts?

I do not believe in natural demons. No.

but when I was doing exorcisms.

You know...

I acted like I did.

Only I had saw demons coming outta anybody?

So for the last something odd years,

you've just been a fraud?

Your theory, not mine.

I wouldn't say that.

I would say that the... The last couple of years what I've been doing?

is really what I have always been doing,

is delivering a service to a person

who needs it.

in a way that they need it.

I'm not saying that I'm a doctor.

but I am saying that I help heal people,

From what ails them. And from what ails them somethings.

Was the thought in their brain that

they were possessed by the Devil.

And if I help to make that thought go away!

and they felt better!

so be it.

I got... I got a family to feed.

At least I tell you to justify.

Well basically, everything changed.

When Justin was born.

He was born early. And so there was

awhile where we weren't sure

our son was gonna be alive! And...

We finally! We found out

that he was gonna be okay.

and at that moment..

Cotton was so relieved. And he... he would just

we were so lucky, we were so lucky.

The best I can do is say,

thank you doctor you know.

I should be thanking God but...

but that wasn't my first thought.

Well, It's just wasn't.

And that realisation really shook me.

A real crisis of faith.

I started to question why my actions

actually believe in God in the first place.

I just boomed you know I started preaching so early?

Felt good! I got rewards for being

good! So who wants to stop that.

Even when I started having this revelation of...

Maybe I don't believe in God.

and yet I so... presenting myself as a preacher.

It didn't stop me.

I mean... it's was on autopilot.

It's what I do.

Well! It wasn't easy, you know it got harder.

I wouldn't lie about that.

He would eventually, at some point anyway.

But there was this one story.

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