Packed full of special effects and set pieces designed to provoke terror in audiences, The Pope's Exorcist (out April 14) is not some sticking-to-the-facts docudrama. As star Russell Crowe admits to EW about the movie, "There's obviously quite a bit of artistic license."

Crowe is, however, playing a real person, Father Gabriele Amorth. The priest replaced Candido Amantini as the Catholic church's chief exorcist in 1992 and continued, he would claim, to rid people of literal demons until his death in 2016 at the age of 91. Determined to publicize the subject of exorcism, the Italian Amorth published a slew of books, including 1999's An Exorcist Tells His Story, and had his work documented by The Exorcist director William Friedkin in his 2017 film The Devil and Father Amorth.