Eli Roth Presents: The Legion of Exorcists

Evil is on the rise.

Demons battle to possess our souls...

...and drag us one step closer... to hell.

But now, there is a gathering of spiritual warriors

who defend us against the devil's minions...

Go back to hell!

Saint Michael the archangel,

defend us in battle.

...and unite to banish the demons in our midst.

These are the true stories...

...ofThe Legion of Exorcists.

A deal with the devil,

it's more than a figure of speech.

As exorcists will attest,

the devil really does send his demons to Earth

to make bargains with the grieving and the hopeless.

It's known as a demonic pact.

A demonic pact can be entered into knowingly or unknowingly.

In the ongoing battle for souls,

it's often the young and the vulnerable that the devil will seek out

because those are the people that are more likely to be manipulated

into doing what the devil wants them to do.

I don't take every case

but in my decade serving as an exorcist,

the cases that really get to me the most

are those involving children or teenagers.

Those really chill me to the core and call me to action

because I am a father of a wonderful daughter and son.

So when I got a call from a distraught mother,

I knew this was gonna be one of those cases.

So, I get a call from a mom.

She is obviously at a last resort.

She needs help...

...because the family is enduring torment...

...after experiencing the traumatic loss of their father.

Thought you would like this.

That was the last day I saw Dad.

It was a good day.

The best.

I just miss him so much.

I know, babe.

I'll give you a minute.

I'll be downstairs if you need me, okay?

Thanks, Mom.

Tina was a daddy's girl,

and she loved to go fishing with him.

Losing him was absolutely devastating to her.

This 17-year-old girl was so distraught...

...that she would do anything to talk to her dad one more time.

Just one more.

That grief and that vulnerability all put Tina at risk.

And then something happened that changed her behavior...

...from distraught to disturbing.

And it all really clicked with mom

that there was something bigger than just grief going on...

...when she had an encounter with her daughter

that shook her to the core.

Tina, come help.

What?

I'm making your favorite, chicken marsala.

Come help your mom.

I don't like that anymore.

Since when?

Come on.

Stop. Just leave me alone.

Tina.

Leave me alone!

But mom had witnessed some crazy phenomenon surrounding her daughter

that intensified every time her daughter got angry,

um, which became more frequent.

And she became almost despondent.

She began to stop eating.

She was extremely aggressive. She no longer slept.

She actually made them put blackout shades in her room

because the light hurt her.

Wow.

One day, mom made a very terrifying discovery

when she went into her bedroom.

Tina.

It's after noon. You need to get up.

No.

Tina, we need to talk.

Let's get some light in here.

Tina.

Tina, who did this to you?

Tina?

They did.

Who's they?

It was the classic three-stripe scratch mocking the Trinity.

But also, the skeptical side of me is, like,

"I'm literally not there to see this.

This can be faked."

Very easy. Happens all the time.

I thought this could be mental illness...

...due to the grief of losing her father.

But that theory was shattered by what happened next.

As the daughter's emotional and physical condition continued to deteriorate

she had been losing weight, wasting away, refusing to eat.

When the mother finally got her to eat something,

it led to a manifestation,

that to this day, I still cannot explain.

You have to eat.

It's too much.

Tina, eat.

If I take a bite, will you leave me alone?

It's a fish hook.

And her bowl of cereal is filled with dozens more.

The connection here is that her father...

...was an extremely avid fishermen.

That was very disturbing to them.

I really am out of... out of options

as far as mental health goes when things begin to materialize.

You can't explain that away with mental health, and grief,

and loss that kids go through.

And so, I am beginning to understand

that there is something very sinister happening here.

I knew I had to act now.

The only problem was I was 300 miles away,

and this family needs help now.

We have to formulate a strategy.

I would have liked to have done it in person,

but everything in this battle plan

that we're... we have to develop,

has to be via video calls.

And so we begin to set up this daily routine

to see if we can't somehow weaken this entity...

Right. - ...that's tormenting this family.

The next time I talked to the mother...

...the daughter was present on the video call.

What I saw was an emaciated, tormented child,

and it absolutely... broke my heart.

And with my own eyes, I saw something...

...that I will never forget as long as I live.

We just can't thank you enough, pastor.

This has been a nightmare.

I don't want you to worry, Tina.

I'm gonna be here with you until we figure this out.

I promise you, we are gonna find the source of this,

and with God's help, purge you of this torment. - Tina.

Tina, what's wrong?

Tina!

Tina. Tina!

Tina!

My God.

At that moment...

...the dad in me rose up and said,

"This has got to stop."

So I realized that things were going to get much worse very quickly...

...and that we had to act.

And I told the mom to play worship music through the house

and to pray over the daughter every night.

I was, like, "I need you to go collect a couple of things."

And they had been part of the Catholic Church.

They had relations there.

I was, like, "I need you to go get holy water,

to have on hand...

...so that we're prepared to face whatever comes our way."

A few days later, mom calls back, frantic.

We're on the video call, she says, "It's getting worse.

My daughter is worse.

Things are happening here that are absolutely... unimaginable."

I just don't know what to do.

Tina's boyfriend came over tonight to cheer her up.

Everything was fine.

And then a few minutes ago, she attacked him.

Where are they now?

They're upstairs.

He went in... He just went in to say goodnight.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Come on, God, help me out here.

Come on, come on. Come on, God, come on.

As I heard this ungodly shriek

come from this emaciated 17-year-old girl,

I felt a level of dread...

...and fear that I had never experienced before.

This was something...

...absolutely evil.

It seemed like an eternity.

Finally, mom calls back.

And she says, "There is something upstairs...

...that you've got to see."

And what I see in that bedroom...

...is something that will send chills down my spine for the rest of my life.

What I saw in that room,

that was the moment that I knew I had to act.

So I had to do an exorcism on a video call.

No!

As we started...

...my first ever video exorcism,

I felt completely blind.

I felt that I didn't have all the tools in my toolbox that I would normally have.

I wasn't there. I didn't have my senses.

I'm on the other side of a screen 300 miles away.

And I'm worried, "Am I gonna do more harm than good?"

Or even worse, "Is this not going to help?"

But we have to do this.

We have no choice.

Okay, I have everything that you said to get.

I just don't know what I'm doing.

I'll be with you every step of the way.