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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.
Banned during the Hays Office Code for the obscene nature in these films, [1] despite them only shown in private parties. All Charlie Chaplin films: 1914-1952 1940s-1956 Memphis, Tennessee's longtime board chief Lloyd T. Binford had a strong history of banning every single Charlie Chaplin movie due to his objection to the popular actor's ...
[a] Of the 53 movies the Legion had placed on its condemned list by 1943, only Howard Hughes' The Outlaw was the product of a major U.S. studio and it would not receive a wide release until 1946. [ citation needed ] After The Moon is Blue (1953) and Baby Doll (1956) received C ratings, it was a decade before two more major Hollywood movies ...
Behind the scenes, though, The Exorcist's cast and crew struggled with Friedkin's intense demands during the course of the movie's famously strenuous shoot.Over the years, some of those war ...
William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died.. The screenwriter was already digging into dark ...
The Exorcist has a reputation as a “cursed film,” so much so that it was the subject of the first episode of Shudder’s docuseries of the same name. The trouble started on set, where Burstyn ...
For the depiction of the War on Terror, perceived as a negative portrayal of Muslims.It was later released with a NC16 rating. 2014 To Singapore, With Love: Banned because it allegedly undermined national security as "the individuals in the film have given distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore and remain outside Singapore," and that "a number of these self ...
Banned for depicting the corruption of the dictatorship of Hungarian communist leader Mátyás Rákosi. [201] 1969–1981, 1998–2010 A tanú (The Witness) Banned under the Communist government for almost a decade, because it satirized the regime. [202] [203] Was later banned again in 1998 for containing an explicit depiction of animal abuse ...