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The Exorcist
The American supernatural horror film starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller and Max von Sydow follows a performance of exorcism when darkness consumes a child.
23 October 1909
1918, New Rochelle, New York, USA
22 April 1939, Long Island City, New York, USA
21 February 1943, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
16 February 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
16 October 1883, Athens, Greece
22 January 1930, London, England, UK
17 April 1906, Leipzig, Germany
1 December 1926, Bristow, Oklahoma, USA
28 June 1908, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
April 11, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 January 1937, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
October 15, 2014
William Friedkin's adaptation of William Peter Blatty's novel, with a screenplay by the author, is a dead-serious meditation on the struggle between good and evil.
October 15, 2014
Aall The Exorcist does is take its audience for a ride, spewing it out the other end, shaken up but none the wiser.
October 15, 2014
When I first saw The Exorcist, I saw only the literal side of the story. But as I watched it again, I began to view the movie as a dark fairy tale about a parent whose child is experiencing a painful trauma.
October 15, 2014
Less a cleverly spun story than a disjointed collection of shockeroos, surrounding a few ghoulishly effective moments with overcooked plot twists and in-your-face vulgarity.
October 20, 2016
A work of cinema in its own league.
November 04, 2016
The Exorcist runs out of steam long before reaching its decidedly low-key (and somewhat anticlimactic) finale...
October 15, 2014
The movie that launched a new era in horror films, and which, for one generation, remains one of the scariest experiences of their lives.
October 15, 2014
[Friedkin] knew he wasn't making art; he was concocting gross-out pop -- a movie so "scary" it borders on being silly.
October 15, 2014
The Exorcist, like most memorable Hollywood movies, gains its power from the way it mixes opposites: new-style realism and sexual radicalism, old-style horror and religion.
October 15, 2014
Von Sydow, Blair and Mercedes McCambridge (the originally uncredited actress who dubbed Regan's gross mutterings) are flat-out terrific.
October 15, 2014
The Exorcist, with its excellent cast, mounting intensity, and ingeniously constructed surprises, is still a commanding achievement.
January 30, 2017
Without a doubt, "The Exorcist" is a touchstone in horror, seemingly incapable of taking a wrong step. Watching with the lights off is strongly encouraged. Turning them back on immediately afterwards will be a necessity.