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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.
The Exorcist is a 1971 novel by American writer William Peter Blatty.It was adapted into the 1973 film of the same name.The book details the demonic possession of twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon.
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 ...
Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American convicted murderer and former radiographer.He appeared as a radiologic technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year.
When The Exorcist hit theaters in late 1973, ... At least two crew members died as well. Two others lost appendages — a thumb and a toe — in on-set accidents. In response to these mysterious ...
David Gordon Green remembers the precise moment he convinced Ellen Burstyn to return to The Exorcist.. The 90-year-old actress, who earned one of the seminal 1973 horror film’s 10 Oscar ...
Stellan Skarsgård as Lankester Merrin in Exorcist: The Beginning (2004). Merrin's depiction in the 1973 film The Exorcist is faithful to the novel. The character of Merrin reappears in the sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), in extended flashbacks detailing an exorcism he performed in Africa following the Second World War.
Jennifer Nettles has joined the cast of “The Exorcist,” the first film in the new horror trilogy. ... The original 1973 film, “The Exorcist,” grossed over $441 million to date and raised ...