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The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. The novel was the basis of a highly successful Oscar-winning film adaptation released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and produced by Blatty, for which he won an ...
He was the author of Die Besessenheit (1921), a book on demonic possession. It was translated into English in 1966. It was translated into English in 1966. William Peter Blatty , author of The Exorcist , was influenced by the book.
Regan MacNeil is a 12-year-old girl and the daughter of actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn).Regan is caught between her mother's grueling working schedule and the fact that her parents are in the process of an acrimonious divorce (her father is in Europe and is not seen in the film), and she has an older brother named Jamie but he died at the age of 3 because of an infection that wouldn't go ...
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.
The newest Exorcist movie stars Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum and, reprising her role from the 1973 original Exorcist movie, Ellen Burstyn.
Fear of the Assimilation of the Foreign Other in The Exorcist by Philip L. Simpson; A Devil for the Day: William Peter Blatty, Ira Levin, and the Revision of the Satanic by John Langan; The Horror of The Exorcist: Its Presentation and Confrontation by J. W. Ocker; Some Thoughts on The Ninth Configuration by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen
Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1973 [1971]), pp. 576–580 and passim Brendan C. Walsh, The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology , New York; NY: Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9780367894016
Blatty was born on January 7, 1928, in New York City. [2] [3] He was the fifth and youngest child of Lebanese immigrants, [3] [4] Mary (née Mouakad; Arabic: ماري معقد بلاتي), a devout Melkite Catholic and the niece of bishop Germanos Mouakkad, and Peter Blatty (Arabic: بيتر بلاتي), a cloth cutter.