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Hostage to the Devil

    • Director

      Martin Stalker

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Rachel Lysaght,
      Paddy McCarney,
      Chris Patterson

      Cinematographer:

      Ruairí O'Brien

    • Principal Cast

      Malachi Martin,
      Eugene O'Neill,
      Robert Blair Kaiser

  • Category

    Documentary

A child possessed. An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil. Using firsthand interviews, dramatic reconstruction, archival evidence and Martin’s own words, this documentary film tells the true story of Father Malachi Martin, and asks, in the battle for saving a soul, just who really is Hostage to the Devil?

Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

90 minutes, Ireland, UK, Italy, USA, 2016, Colour

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