![]() ![]() If you really truly believe in the devil, you will change your life because you will suddenly realize: “Somebody is after my soul. We need to realize that the devil is real. Solomon: Catholics have to go see the movie because we need to get a refresher course on the devil. Konzelman: The devil hopes you don’t see the movie. People seeing this movie are saying, “I have to reconsider my life.” What we’ve done and why he’s angry and why he’s attacking everyone is that we brought him into the light. You can see the devil’s machinations all across the world. If we go back to the Bible, what does it say? There will come a time when good is considered bad, and bad is considered good, when women will be as men, when all these things that are happening in our world today, that the saints have prophesied about, that the Bible has spoken about. We drag him from the darkness and bring him into the light. You really expose Satan and his tactics in the movie. The surgeon told him how the appendix actually burst during removal and told him if he showed up an hour later, “You probably wouldn’t be here.” Konzelman: Our on-set priest, who was trained in exorcisms, during shooting had an emergency appendectomy. At our office building in Burbank, California, the whole roof was ripped off during a rainstorm. So you see the devil tries to kill people and the Lord protects them. No one was hurt, but all the cars were totaled. We had eight car accidents in a matter of 11 or 12 days. Solomon: Literally, it has been a fight for us. Have you experienced unusual problems making the movie? Jesus told parables for a reason because stories are the most powerful way to convey information to people. If you dance with the devil, you’re going to lose.” We point that out, but we do it in a very smart, cinematic way - we tell a story. This movie is saying, “Don’t play with the devil. So it’s a perfect time for this to show the wickedness and the evil of the devil. … All the world surrounded by the occult, especially on TV and in the movie theaters. ![]() If you play with the devil, he will come. All these are ways that people are getting infested. What we need to realize is that today are doing Ouija boards, tarot cards, Reiki, yoga, getting pagan tattoos. In reality, anyone who has seen the movie can tell you there’s no sex or any bad language. Solomon: Basically, they look at the poster and say, “We want to go to that movie” because they’re drawn to the occult, which is exactly why we did the poster. The poster is a Trojan horse designed to lure the mainstream horror audience into the film, nonbelievers. And don’t be afraid of the poster - looks pretty intimidating. Konzelman: It’s grounded in a theological sense, but it’s also entertainment. And the thing is, it’s all based on fact. This demon is telling the story, the truth, on not only creation and God, but, from their point of view, how they’re going to destroy the world and how they’re doing it. Solomon: The film lets everyone know there’s good and evil. And the battle takes place one soul at a time. ![]() Konzelman: In this film, the audience finds out what the demons have known all along - that we’re not really in a cultural battle we’re in a spiritual battle. In addition, the Register asked exorcist Father Carlos Martins his impressions of the film. Both writers, known for Unplanned, consider this their best work up to date and spoke at length with Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen about their film. The doctor finds he is a demon who wants to be executed, leading to an edge-of-the-seat battle of good against evil. A criminal awaiting execution gets a last-minute reprieve when a court order sends a psychiatrist to examine if he is trying to avoid the death penalty with his behavior. Opening on 1,200 screens this past weekend, the film Nefarious is a horror thriller like none other, spotlighting the epic battle between evil and human souls.Ĭo-writers-directors Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman’s supernatural thriller was inspired by the book A Nefarious Plot by New York Times best-selling author Steve Deace. By Joseph Pronechen/National Catholic Register ![]()
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