A Head Full of Ghosts

The Barretts are your typical middle-class family—neither rich nor poor, neither attractive nor unattractive. But when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia, the Barretts’ lives go from mundane to macabre in a hurry. Her parents, John and Carolyn, are desperate to help her. However, she doesn’t respond well to their care and medications. They turn to a local Catholic priest for help and he suggests an exorcism. He believes that Marjorie is being controlled by an evil spirit. They reluctantly agree to be filmed during the ritual and soon find themselves unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show becomes the stuff of urban legend…