One of the more obnoxious peccadilloes of modern horror movie marketing is the insistence that everything is based on true stories. Numerous movie sites, used to regurgitating press releases, have parroted the “true story” behind The Conjuring, Annabelle and now The Conjuring 2, remolding Ed and Lorraine Warren from dubious attention-seekers into frontline warriors in an…
Had the Catholic Church not sanctioned exorcism, and trained priests to perform them, then none of this would have been believable from the very beginning.
Trump isn’t the only huckster able to put on a good show for the rubes in the audience.