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Oct 17, 2023 · ‘The Exorcist’ is a Clash of Belief Systems. By Jason Zinoman. Of all the heads to spin, why this one? That question was at the core of the dispute between the director William Friedkin and the...
Oct 6, 2023 · October 6, 2023 11:16 AM EDT. F ifty years after The Exorcist first terrorized moviegoers and forever changed the horror movie landscape, The Exorcist: Believer, a direct sequel to the...
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Oct 2, 2023 · Published on October 2, 2023 12:00PM EDT. The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green is revealing how he persuaded Ellen Burstyn to return to the beloved horror franchise. Burstyn, 90,...
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Even before the novel’s success, Blatty had been in talks about turning the book into a movie. In fact, the character of mother Chris MacNeil, an actress, had been based on Blatty’s friend and neighbor Shirley MacLaine. “She seemed touched by the characterization,” he remembered. “There were even lines of dialogue scattered throughout the novel tha...
At the film’s first sneak preview, cast and crew were stunned to find viewers screaming and running out of the theater. The production designer, Bill Malley, said,“When it was over, nobody applauded. Everybody just sat there. They still didn’t know what they had seen.” The response horrified Warner Brothers executives. They decided to release the f...
At the end of the day, what keeps “The Exorcist” alive in people’s imaginations are the questions it poses about good and evil and the reality of possession. In the 1960s, Blatty had a hard time finding cases that had the ring of truth about them, but in recent decades the number of exorcismsseems to have increased considerably. The Vatican now has...
In the novel, directly before the final confrontation, Father Karras asks Father Merrin what exactly is going on. Why would the devil attack a little girl? Merrin proposes the target is not really the girl at all. “It is us…the observers…every person in this house. And I think—I think the point is to make us despair, to reject our own humanity, Dam...
Jan 11, 2024 · January 11, 2024 1:11pm. 'The Exorcist: Believer' Blumhouse. David Gordon Green is no longer directing Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Deceiver, the sequel to The...
Sep 29, 2023 · published 29 September 2023. Exclusive: Director David Gordon Green speaks to SFX about the possibility of Ellen Burstyn appearing in future Exorcist movies. Comments. (Image credit: IMDb) In a...
Oct 6, 2023 · 8 minute read. Linda Blair in Exorcist II: The Heretic, 1977, and Olivia O'Neill in The Exorcist: Believer, 2023. Everett Collection; Courtesy of Universal Pictures. By Stephanie Zacharek....
