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The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
Friedkin and Ellen Burstyn addressed one of the movie's most controversial scenes in 2018. 'The Exorcist': The real-life horror stories behind the making of William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic ...
“The Exorcist: Believer" was produced by Blumhouse with the intent of launching a new series of films, but it feels guided largely by affection and respect for Friedkin's original rather than ...
The book was the focus of a court case over its exclusion from The New York Times Best Seller list. Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real-life Zodiac Killer , [ 4 ] who, in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle , had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen".
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Exorcist. As written by William Peter Blatty, both in his original novel and his Academy Award-winning screenplay, The Exorcist (1973) did not happen.
Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American convicted murderer and former radiographer.He appeared as a radiologic technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year.
2/5 This is a toned-down, more limply palatable iteration of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic: the projectiled pea soup is gone, the verbal abuse has been whittled down to a single ‘c***ing ...
Stellan Skarsgård as Lankester Merrin in Exorcist: The Beginning (2004). Merrin's depiction in the 1973 film The Exorcist is faithful to the novel. The character of Merrin reappears in the sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), in extended flashbacks detailing an exorcism he performed in Africa following the Second World War.