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6. 'Poltergeist' (1982) For a movie released in 1982 with a PG rating, “Poltergeist” is pretty scary. If you don’t know the story, a suburban family is living in a possessed house, and one ...
Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a creepy face, usually co-occurring with a ...
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.
Joshua John Miller and his personal and creative partner, M.A. Fortin, never set out to make a movie about an exorcism because, as Fortin says to Miller, “Your father stars in the greatest one ...
Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film written and directed by Rose Glass in her feature directorial debut.The film stars Morfydd Clark as a religious private carer who becomes dangerously fixated with saving the soul of her patient.
Here's the correct order to watch every 'Exorcist' movie, including the newest film in the horror franchise, 'The Exorcist: Believer.'
The prologue for Scary Movie 2 was a short parody of several scenes from the original film. In 1987, Warner Bros. released an animated short starring Daffy Duck titled "The Duxorcist", which was a parody of The Exorcist, in which a group of spirits possess a female duck. Daffy does eventually succeed in getting them out of the female character.
"The Exorcist is a powerful film even if one were to remove the supernatural element," agrees Syracuse University professor and pop culture expert, Kendall Phillips. "At its heart, this is a story ...