[Man speaking German]
[Anneliese speaking German]
[Anneliese screaming and shouting]
Gruber: Nothing. I don't know.
Landers: Has that ever happened?
They knew we were coming, yes?
Yeah.
[Speaking German]
Parker: What are they saying?
They don't want us to come in.
Landers: I thought you had spoken to them already.
Let's just go in.
[Speaking German]
Come on. Move in.
[Speaking German]
Hello. I am Dr. Landers.
I'm Dr. Ken Landers.
[Speaking German]
Dr. Landers. Kenneth Landers.
And we're here to help Anneliese with...
We're here to see Anneliese.
We understand that she is not doing so well.
Gentlemen, you had two years...
She was under medical care...
And you didn't achieve nothing.
We understand that she has not been taking her medication...
And therefore...
Her medication didn't help her then...
And it's not helping now.
Well, she had two years.
What do you want?
Father, what we need to do now...
Is do some medical tests.
We can take her into town.
At the hospital there...
She's not going to leave this house.
We can do certain tests right here today...
No. Dear, doctor. Dear, doctor...
To determine if she's having seizures...
Because that is the issue here.
She's obviously having psychotic episodes.
She had psychotic episodes when she was in your care...
And you didn't do anything to help her.
When we're fearful of is the installation of this...
And have you been able to help her?
[Overlapping conversations]
I'm sorry. I don't speak German.
We're not leaving.
Dr. Gruber has arranged for us to do this...
And we need...
[Pounding]
Oh, shit!
Oh, my god.
Dr. Gruber, did she look like this...
The last time you saw her?
No, not at all.
[Speaking German]
[Urinating]
Landers: Oh, my god.
Let me examine her.
Anneliese? Anneliese?
[Speaking German]
Good lord, when did she last sleep?
This girl is exhausted.
No wonder she's having episodes like this.
Dr. Gruber, she looks awful...
As if she hasn't slept in...
Aah!
[Praying in German]
[Overlapping conversations]
She could be seizing right now.
Get her to bed. We can give her sedative.
[Screaming]
Come... hold it. Get her...
Keep on her, Steve.
Keep...
[Screaming]
Steve, get on her. Come on.
Parker: Holy shit.
My name is Friedrich Gruber.
I am the local doctor...
And Anneliese Michel has been my patient...
Ever since she was a small child.
I am very concerned about her case.
Her parents came to me several years ago with Anneliese.
She was suffering from headaches at the time...
And that was unexplained.
And since then we gave her some medication...
And now, oh.
Parker: All right, doctor, we're rolling.
I'm Dr. Kenneth Landers.
I focus my research...
On the study of grand mal epilepsy...
And associated disorders.
And I've been brought over by Dr. Gruber...
To consult on this rather remarkable case.
We had a written contract...
Stating that we could come, take a look...
And if we felt, we could take her back to the hospital.
Now all of a sudden, they say no.
Parker: Well, why... if you have a written contract...
Exactly. So I said, you know...
Either you let us in and we can...
Or we take this matter to the authorities.
Is that what you're going to do? What's next?
Yes.
We will take it to the authorities...
If need be.
I have been documenting...
Epilepsy and again, related disorders...
For many years in the United States...
And when we heard about this case...
We realized that it might be the perfect opportunity...
To study something in the field...
Which is rather difficult to find test subjects for.
In this case, what I believe is happening...
Is a perfect case...
A psychotic state...
Often that resembles schizophrenia...
With all the associated manifestations of that.
It presents in exactly the same way...
As classic schizophrenia...
But we believe it's directly related...
To seizure activity.
So we're here at the home of Anneliese Michel...
Not sure which.
My name's Steve Parker.
I'm here with Dr. Landers from the university...
And we're... at the invite of Dr. Gruber.
And I think the reason we've come this whole way...
Is because there appears to be things happening here...
That we haven't encountered before.
There are priests here doing an exorcism.
The parents clearly don't want us here.
We just got here a couple hours ago...
And already some pretty trippy shit's happening.
When we walked up the path...
We turned around and there were several dead crows.
[Crows caw]
Parker: Oh, shit.
Sandy: Oh, my god.
Gruber: Come along. Come along.
As we came in the house...
Anneliese appeared...
And proceeded to urinate on the floor...
As well as lick up her own urine.
Aah!
Certainly me, and even Dr. Landers...
Seemed to be affected by it.
I haven't ever seen him be affected...
In quite the same way before.
I need the CCG cameras up in every corner.
I don't want to miss any angles, ok?
Get every single thing from this freak show that I can.
Ok. Where do you want the monitors?
In the kitchen.
Parker: All right. Get some "B" Roll here...
Of the house.
A lot of religious imagery.
Man, they really dig their crosses.
The dining room.
Very well-kept house.
Oh.
Hey.
Oh!
[Bang] Aah!
Steve! Steve!
What's Steve doing?
Gruber: The picture's upside down.
Get out of the way.
You want to explain this?
The sign is, too.
And I expect you want me to believe...
That this is the work of the devil.
Oh! Oh, my god!
What happened to the lights?
Is there a light switch up here?
Come up here, Steve. Get up here.
Steve, push through, please.
Into the bedroom.
Come on. Go, go, go, go, go.
Dr. Gruber.
She's seizing. Give me your stethoscope.
Give me your stethoscope now.
Hurry, doctor.
[Speaking German]
Ok, 20 milligrams Diazepam. We're going to sedate her.
We're going to sedate her quickly.
Bring it here.
[Speaking German]
She's not an animal.
All right. And... come on.
Go.
Aah!
[Indiscernible]
Aah!
Bring the tape, doctor. Hurry up!
Tape it quickly!
[Speaking German]
[Indiscernible]
Motherfucker!
Touch me again, I'll rip out your fucking eyes!
Does she speak English?
[Speaking German]
What?
Stop! Stop!
Stop!
Wait!
Keep filming.
Out! Out!
[Speaking German]
You, too. Out, out, out, out, out. Get out.
Out.
[Praying in German]
Aah!
[Praying in German]
[Laughing]
Parker: All right, pastor Renz, we are rolling.
Let me interrupt you.
I am a father, not a pastor.
I'm a catholic, not a protestant.
Right on. What should I call you?
[Speaking German] Father.
Father? Ok, father Renz, we are ready?
We are ready.
My name is father Renz.
I am here to conduct an exorcism...
As it was requested by the family.
Aah!
[Praying in German]
Parker: And the doctors being here.
How do you feel about that?
They have served their purpose.
They had over two... almost three years...
To treat and to try their art.
Believe me, I am not against medicine...
And medical science.
It has its place.
It has outlived its usefulness.
We've seen some pretty trippy things.
How does a demon do that?
How does a demon manifest normally?
It could be as simple as speaking in tongues.
All of a sudden, the person uses language...
They had no way of knowing.
We have had instances where all of a sudden...
The person speaks Aramaic.
That is the language...
We barely have any written language from that time.
Anneliese, she grew up in a small Bavarian village.
How could she speak Greek, fluent Latin...
English even, or Italian?
How could she do that?
Outside of Bavaria.
[Indiscernible]
Motherfucker!
This is definitely demonic.
These are manifestations, outbursts...
Where the demon wants to manifest itself...
To the people around.
It's, for lack of a better word...
A scare tactic.
Parker: Do you know what's happening to her?
I cannot say for sure...
Without proper examinations.
But they won't let us.
That is what makes me so frustrated here.
You were up there. How can you explain that?
There could be many explanations.
The bed rocking, a small earthquake, perhaps?
A small earthquake?
Yeah, a small earthquake.
Come on, you expect someone to believe that?
There are all kinds of explanations.
But without being able to...
You know, to have the psycho...
You must have some idea what happened up there.
As a scientist, explain it.
Prove to me...
[Pounding]
Like that. What is that?
That is Anneliese again...
Jumping up and down on the bed.
But that's not what happened up there.
She wasn't jumping up and down.
You saw what happened. You were there.
She was writhing around like she was...
Like having a seizure or something.
Yeah, but how can you explain what happened?
The bed wasn't having a seizure. Nothing else...
How do you explain... that was freaky shit.
How do you explain that?
Well, I can't at this moment.
Parker: We're rolling, Dr. Landers.
Sandy, you rolling?
Camera's all set and rolling.
Parker: Ok. That's some pretty trippy shit last night, Dr. Landers.
Why don't we start with that, ok?
With Dr. Gruber?
From our perspective...
What we saw last night...
Was a young girl writhing on a bed.
So we gave her a sedative, and she was able to sleep.
And may I just say...
And I have no idea...
Were caused by...
And we need to help her.
She hasn't been sleeping.
And we want to help.
My dear doctor, yes, your sedative helped.
It put her out.
The point is it stopped the seizures as well.
Gruber: What has your exorcisms done for her? Absolutely nothing.
Absolutely nothing?
The catholic Church has for hundreds of years...
Been doing things incorrectly.
They have believed...
That the world was flat at one point, not round.
They did not think that the Earth went around the sun.
And they still believe in demons and ghosts.
Parker: You know, father, that I was brought here by the doctors.
And they feel that you're basically...
You're killing this girl. What do you say to that?
Nonsense.
She's not doing very well.
Well, what are they doing?
Pumping her full of sedatives?
This is going to sustain her life?
I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
That's what I see.
Gruber: I gave you the courtesy to finish.
Extend that same courtesy to me.
That is blasphemy.
There are many powers...
That neither you not I understand.
It has gone into a realm of faith.
All you can do...
Is explain this through mumbo-jumbo...
Ghosts and devils.
The point is the drugs did help...
And we can help her more if we...
Speaks a foreign language? Speaks...
Obviously she heard it somewhere.
I can't explain that...
But I don't need to explain that.
I spent my time teaching Greek to somebody up there.
Are you out of your mind?
She heard it on television or on the radio.
Father, medical research shows...
That people who are having seizures...
Often speak in other languages...
That they've only heard a tiny fraction of their lives.
That's why we had them cite religious text...
That they wouldn't even understand.
I have no idea what she was saying.
That's not the point. The point...
Enough! Enough!
Enough!
[Speaking German]
Landers: What are they saying, doctor?
What are you saying?
[Speaking German]
Yes, you know, I would like to say this.
I want you to get this. This is important.
Do you have any idea where you are?
I think not.
I am the spiritual leader in this community...
In this area.
This exorcism...
Was not only ordained...
But was ordered by a diocese.
By the bishop.
So you want to go to the authorities...
Because they will laugh you out of the courtroom.
This is a different world...
You have stepped into.
Get this in your head.
It is beyond you and the science.
In this area...
The politicians come after the Church.
And now we are done.
Thank you. [Speaking German]
Landers: We only want to help her.
Gruber: Anneliese!
I think it's complicated...
By the so-called treatments...
The exorcisms that have been going on.
I think we also have a case...
Of what I would term doctrinaire induction.
I think that Anneliese is being fed information...
On how to behave...
On how to have these episodes...
By the very fact...
That the priests have been telling her...
That she's possessed.
And what the devil does...
Is exactly what she then manifests.
And I believe that it's a complicated case...
But I don't think it's too complicated...
For us to unravel.
Parker: So for the camera, tell me your names.
I am Joseph Michel and this is my wife Anna.
Ok, and what's happening with your daughter?
What's going on?
Well, she is very sick.
She... six years ago...
She had... what you say... a fit...
And then she began to make many noises...
And to cry out.
[Speaking German]
She had an epileptic, um...
Parker: Seizure?
Seizure. Yeah. And, uh...
[Speaking German]
She began to... how you say...
S... to a s...
My name is Ernst Eich. [Speaking German]
Parker: Please try the best you can...
In English. In English, please.
My name is pastor Eich...
And I'm the priest here in this community.
My English is a little rusty, of course...
That's ok.
I used to speak in university.
It's my first time... are you of TV, I think?
I'm not sure. Your camera is rolling.
Parker: So if that's the case...
Why do you have the priests here?
I mean, that sounds like...
Didn't you take her to the doctor?
[Speaking German]
We took her to the doctors, yes...
But they gave her a strong medication.
But this did not help, so...
[Speaking German]
And quite all of a sudden...
She began to curse us...
And to, um... um...
To fight us, you know.
But that's... why is that demonic possession?
Why isn't that just a girl acting out?
Why do you have the priests here?
[Speaking German]
That was not everything.
[Speaking German]
Yeah, that was not everything.
She urinated on the ground...
And she began to play with that...
And we didn't know what to do with this, you know.
[Speaking German]
Despite the medication, she began to call on the devil...
And call out.
[Speaking German]
There had to be something else that was wrong...
That we had to do something else.
Parker: And do you believe...
She's possessed by the devil?
[Speaking German]
We are a religious family, we are a catholic family...
And we believe in god.
Parker: So you're still upset that the scientists are here?
Do you think that they're going to harm her?
They want to help. It appears they want to help.
Well, you know, the intention's good.
I do understand the intention's very good...
But it doesn't work.
You don't think it has a place.
No, not here.
[Whispering]
[Indiscernible]
What did she say?
[Speaking German]
What's she saying? What does that mean?
She's praying to the virgin Mary.
She has to suffer for all the sins.
[Crying]
Anneliese.
[Speaking German]
[Laughs]
Preacher wants to fuck me.
[Laughs]
[Speaking German]
Get that shit out of my face!
[Anneliese singing softly in German]
Give me one second.
Yeah. Is that rolling?
Books are flying everywhere and it's cold.
I'm gonna take that camera up there.
She's throwing books?
No, they're flying by themselves.
[Overlapping conversations]
Steve, calm down. What are you...
I just had a revelation about all this.
She is convinced that the virgin Mary...
Is speaking to her and telling her...
The exorcisms need to continue...
So the world may learn about possessions and demons.
Father Renz! Father Renz! Come and see.
Come and see. Quickly!
Steve, bring the camera.
Anneliese.
Landers: We're going in there.
Come on.
I'm not going back in there.
Don't tell me what to do.
I'm not going back in there.
Come on. This is your job.
Get in here.
Sandy: Shit!
Shit. Oh, my god.
[Overlapping conversations]
Aah!
[Praying in German]
Anneliese, come here.
No!
I know you don't believe in me.
You can't explain everything with your medicine.
You can take your medicine and shove it up your ass!
[Screaming]
No!
Aah!
[Praying in German]
No. No. Oh, god.
Steve, are you getting this?
Yeah. Not me, her.
[Praying in German]
[Heart beating]
[Praying in Latin]
Parker: If the priests are here for nine months...
And she's not better, then that's not helping, either.
[Speaking German]
There's no other choice.
When she calls for the devil...
And the holy water, um...
Burns her...
That doesn't make sense.
You must have other options...
Other things you haven't tried yet.
What else can we do?
Well, right now we have about 60, 62 treatments...
And in my opinion...
It will work eventually.
It's very complicated. It's very subtle.
Parker: Well, she looks...
I mean, for lack of a better term...
Pretty fucked up.
It doesn't appear to be working to me.
Well, I wouldn't use...
But it's getting better for sure.
Why do you think she's resisting your exorcism?
At this point, I don't know.
I don't think that it is coming from the person.
It is either that there is a very strong demon...
Holding on to her...
You have to remember, this is not a psychic thing.
This is the body, the mind, the spirit...
Everything is involved in this.
Everything is possessed, for lack of a better word.
Parker: So you think the exorcisms will help?
[Speaking German]
It will take a little bit longer...
But we must believe in this.
This is our faith.
We put it in... what is it?
God's hands.
[Speaking German]
God will stay with us. Stay by us.
[Anneliese speaking German]
[Anneliese shouting]
[Groaning]
[Anneliese speaking German]
Aah! [Speaking German]
[Shouting in German]
Renz: What you have heard now...
Is part of what we have recorded...
Over the last three or four months.
What we can discern to this point...
Is that there are three demonic entities involved.
One claims to be the emperor Nero.
The second one... very disturbing...
Appears to be Adolph Hitler.
It comes through...
The verbiage that she uses...
From what I understand.
The diocese, the bishop...
And even his cardinalship in Munich.
People in Rome are concerned about this.
This entity appears to be Satan himself...
Or one of his highest disciples.
It comes through and totally takes her over...
And violates her and everything around her.
Now, what you will hear from now on...
Is much more disturbing than what you've heard before...
So be aware.
[Anneliese shouting]
[Growling]
[Shouting]
Sandy: Shh! Something's up.
Landers: What's the matter?
Sandy: What is that?
Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
Steve!
Got to get the 16 millimeter.
Aah!
[Praying in German]
[Spits]
Bastard!
[Speaking German]
Sandy: I'm not going up, Steve.
Shit.
I mean, that was freaky.
How do you explain that?
I don't know how to explain what happened.
Parker: I mean, I'm not a scientist, but that isn't...
Come on, you expect someone to believe that?
There are all kinds of explanations.
I don't believe that it's demons.
I don't think that anything is happening here...
Except some of the admittedly amazing things...
That the human body can cause to happen.
Parker: That was freaky shit.
How do you explain that?
Well, I can't at this moment.
What's the word I'm looking for?
Manifestation. I'm sorry?
I don't know the word.
I know you don't.
Yes, I am. You done?
[Man speaking German]
[Anneliese speaking German]
[Anneliese growling]
[Anneliese shouting]
[Speaking German]
[Shouting in German]
[Speaking German]
You must help us.
These demons, they are killing our daughter.
We cannot use our...
[Speaking German]
Joseph: They are killing our daughter.
This demon, you know, you must help her, yeah?
You will help her?
[Renz speaking German]
Please, please, can we have a moment of privacy?
Thank you.
Steve, back off.
If we can take her to the hospital...
We can feed her in the hospital...
And we can make her well again.
[Joseph speaking German]
Gruber: We can feed her intravenously...
In the hospital.
Landers: It won't hurt her. It will only help her.
Renz: Gentlemen, please.
At this point... [speaking German]
[Anna speaking German]
Joseph: Can you help her?
Landers: Yes.
[Renz speaking German]
What are they saying?
The cardinal and the bishop are praying for her.
[Speaking German]
They have to have faith. It is the most important thing.
Cocksucker's gonna stab me with those needles.
What she's projecting is a classic psychosis...
I understand that...
And have her tested.
[Speaking German]
Anneliese, you have to...
[Speaking German]
Does eating help your little sister, huh?
What?
Couldn't kill her cancer,eich could it, doctor?
That's your fairy medicine, wasn't it?
How do you know about that?
[Speaking German]
How do you know about that?
How do you know?
Oh, my god!
Renz: This is how the demon works.
This is how he gets through.
You want me to eat, don't you? Huh?
Let's eat, shall we?
Sandy: Oh, god!
You are right, doc.
I feel much stronger now.
Sandy: Let me out of here!
Let me out of here!
What went on in here?
Huh?
My assistant's in the bathroom puking her guts out.
[Snaps fingers]
You listening?
Next time you want to get naked...
Put on a little show, you let me know.
I'll be sure to be there.
Hey?
Crazy bitch.
[Speaking German]
What are you saying, doctor?
I'm saying that I am not sure...
Exactly what all is going on here...
But I do know that I'm going to stop these exorcisms.
Parker: Jesus.
[Growling]
Parker: Help!
You like to watch?
Fucking watch this.
[Gruber choking]
Landers: Steve? Steve?
Landers: What's going on? What?
What's happening?
Stop! Anneliese, stop it.
Anneliese, look at me. Please.
[Growling]
Anneliese. Anneliese, please.
Look at me, please.
Anneliese, you're killing him!
Stop it! Stop it!
Doctor, I'm not killing him.
[Praying in German]
I killed him!
[Laughs]
[Praying in German]
Hey?
[Speaking German]
Sandy: What?
[Speaking German]
I don't understand German. I'm sorry.
[Softly] Please? Please?
Please help me.
It hurts.
Ok. Ok.
I can loosen them up a little bit.
Ok?
Please.
Why did you kill that doctor?
Why would you do that?
No. No, I don't.
I don't do this.
I don't know who, but I don't do this.
Ok.
Ok, just a little bit, ok?
Aah! No, let go. Let go.
Please.
You really are a stupid bitch.
What?
Please let go. Please let go.
Ow! Ow!
Only usually you're the one in it...
And the person in charge is tucking you in.
What?
Didn't you love it when he used to come to your room...
And tuck you in?
Or should I say fuck you?
You used to love the way your father touched you, huh?
Stop.
When you were sitting at the kitchen table.
Remember that Thanksgiving when you were at your grandmother's?
And your mother was sick, so you got to stay in bed with daddy.
No, no. Stop it!
1964 was a good year for you, wasn't it?
But then it all got worse when you got older.
Now every time you date a man...
It's not the same, is it?
Why are you doing this?
You're too old now.
Nobody will love you the way he did.
It will never feel the way it did when you were little.
A spent whore.
You're nothing but a piece of trash now.
You're well past your prime.
If I were you...
I would simply put myself out of my misery.
I don't understand how you could look at yourself in the mirror...
All old...
Sagging breasts now.
You're nothing but a piece of trash.
Who would love you?
No one would love you.
You've been used up.
[Sobbing]
That's right. Go.
Go, Sandy.
[Chuckles]
My dear doctor...
You were privy to more of this...
Than anybody else around here.
The point is I know what happened last night.
At least I saw what happened last night.
I don't even understand it...
But I know that a man is dead...
And we have to call the authorities.
Now is the time that the authorities have to be brought in.
I can't do it by myself.
I don't speak the language.
I don't know who they are.
My good doctor, listen to me for a moment.
If the authorities are brought in at this point...
Neither you nor I will be able to help her.
They will take her to a place...
That is beyond our reach...
And neither you nor I will be able to help her.
I want to take her somewhere where she can be helped.
She is a danger to herself.
Doctor.
If you don't let me do this...
I am taking Steve and Sandy...
And we are going to leave.
That's what we're going to do.
Then you are the one that is losing.
It's not a matter of losing.
You need to understand something.
I was ordered to perform this exorcism...
From the highest level within the Church.
This did not come out of my little world.
This was... let me finish, please.
This was something...
That was brought in front of the courier...
And they brought it in front of the cardinals.
There is a small group of cardinals in Rome.
They specifically deal with these instances.
These decisions are not taken lightly.
They are made at the highest level in Rome.
Do they know that somebody has died?
Yes, people die in these situations.
People die in these situations?
What does that mean?
This is a normal thing?
We're not dealing with normal circumstances.
When do you stop, then? When do you stop it?
When?
[Footsteps]
Is that her?
I think it...
[Speaking German]
[Glass breaks]
[Shouting]
You need to understand.
This is a duel thing that is happening.
It is not only the person that is possessed...
That is affected by this.
Gets very involved, gets very drained by this.
It involves everything of a person.
When I conduct an exorcism...
It is my body, my mind, and spirit.
There are instances...
Died in the process.
[Speaking German]
[Shouting in German]
[Knocking] Father Renz.
[Shouting in German]
Landers: Open the door.
What are you doing to her?
She's doing penance.
What do you mean, penance?
600 genuflects.
600? What are you talking about?
She's needs it.
She'll blow her knees out, father. You can't do that.
Then she may need a wheelchair.
Father, listen to me.
I'm staying here only to take care of her now...
And we are going to the authorities.
We're leaving, father. You hear me?
[Speaking German]
[Anna speaking German]
Dr. Landers?
Eventually she's gonna collapse, and you pick her up.
Down again.
Sandy's dead.
Priests have got the house.
It's pretty hard sometimes.
[No sound]
It's imperative that we get her to a hospital...
That we get her tested...
And that we save this girl...
From a downward spiral...
Which she's obviously on.
[Anneliese growling]
[Anneliese indiscernible]
[Renz speaking German]
[Indiscernible]
Parker: We have the picture that fell on Sandy.
Pretty trippy...
But not necessarily demonic.
Going downstairs.
I'm going to proceed downstairs.
The crosses... still upside down.
No one can really explain that, but...
Strange phenomena.
So I've been told.
Same with the pictures.
And I'm going to go ahead and go downstairs...
And catch some footage of the...
Hey, there, girl.
You're foxy.
What are you doing here?
You're not supposed to be here.
Oh, you gonna put on a show?
You want it, don't you? Crazy bitch.
Go ahead. It's all right.
I thought... ok. All right.
Oh, good god.
Fuck.
All right.
No. No. No.
Aah! No!
Aah!
[Choking]
Aah!
I'm so sorry I couldn't help you.
I'm so sorry about everything.
I want to get this on tape.
I studied science and medicine my whole life.
I thought I could explain everything...
Including death.
And three people have died here...
And I don't know why.
And I should have put a stop to it...
Weeks ago.
It's my fault. I should have stopped it.
I should have put an end to it.
But I'm going to. I'm going to put an end to it...
Aah!
[Growling]
[Speaking German]
[Praying in German]
[Speaking German]
[Speaking softly in German]
[Anneliese growling]
[Man speaking German]
[Anneliese shouting in German]
[Priest praying in German]