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I’m naturally a skeptic, but those tapes are horrifying and the whole case is absolute nightmare fuel.
I can’t believe Carpenter’s career didn’t take off after the amazing performance she gave. Apparently the director was prepared to use a dummy and lots of SFX during the possession scenes, but Carpenter was able to contort herself into much scarier positions and do much of the work without the use of effects. I was very, very impressed with her performance; a lesser actor would have ruined the entire movie and could’ve made it low-budget and cheesy, but the believability of Emily is exactly what made the movie so effective. Unfortunately, the movie didn’t get great reviews, and for whatever reason, people tend to not take horror movies seriously as a genre. I would’ve loved to see this actress in other films and think her performance here deserves a lot more praise, as does the movie as a whole.
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