Blatty returned to the Exorcist setting in Legion, which he adapted into The Exorcist III.
|
|
The Exorcist immediately hinted that it could stand out from the movie that inspired it by tapping into something that has been underexplored in subsequent Exorcist projects: family drama.
|
|
Inside the Exorcist is more accurately a metafiction podcast that's loosely based on the real-life history — some of it less well-sourced than the rest — surrounding The Exorcist.
|
|
The Exorcist: Season 1 Inspired by director William Friedkin's classic horror film, The Exorcist is a psychological thriller that follows two differing investigations into a single family's struggles with demonic possession.
|
|
"Do I call the parents or the exorcist," she wrote.
|
|
The Exorcist isn't making you wait for the main event.
|
|
It reminded me of something you'd see in The Exorcist.
|
|
The effect is terrifying, like something out of The Exorcist.
|
|
I'll take SAW over The Exorcist any day, every day.
|
|
Don't miss THE EXORCIST starting Fridays Sept 23 on FOX.
|
|
According to one scholar, he was also a professional exorcist.
|
|
"Have you ever seen the movie The Exorcist?" he said.
|
|
The movie's a nightmare, like the Jewish version of The Exorcist.
|
|
"The Exorcist" has been running in London's West End since October.
|
|
My anxiety about death on the Exorcist Steps proved entirely rational.
|
|
The famous "Exorcist stairs" are still frequented by pedestrians near Georgetown's waterfront.
|
|
An exorcist is a person who specializes in casting out these entities.
|
|
One report even claimed a girl was institutionalized after seeing The Exorcist.
|
|
The Exorcist (20183) is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.
|
|
Just ask anyone who's seen The Exorcist in a sold out theatre.
|
|
It said the exorcist should not have anything to do with medicine.
|
|
No one fainted or died, so The Exorcist has it beat there.
|
|
Before Mr. Blatty wrote "The Exorcist," he was a master of comedy.
|
|
Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen have not lost their power.
|
|
Making a TV version of The Exorcist is, ostensibly, a terrible idea.
|
|
The Exorcist was notoriously wrought with challenges before, during, and after its release.
|
|
Oddly, "The Exorcist" did not scare me away from scary movies in general.
|
|
Called our generation's The Exorcist, it isn't aimed at the faint of heart.
|
|
Linda Blair's demonically possessed character in "The Exorcist" also undergoes a physical transformation.
|
|
The producer wanted horror samples in the songs, like clips from The Exorcist.
|
|
Another nostalgia-inspired costume was Regan from the 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist."
|
|
But the elderly exorcist shuffled past, leaving the Colombian grumbling, though not demonically.
|
|
Prosper doesn't believe in demons, and resists, but the exorcist knows Them intimately.
|
|
In one photo she is smeared in kale juice, kind of Exorcist Lite.
|
|
Imitations, parodies and sequels were inevitable, whether the Leslie Nielsen spoof Repossessed; the four subsequent Exorcist movies (only one of which, The Exorcist III, involved Blatty) or a stage version performed in 2012 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
|
|
"The Exorcist," released in 1973, was the first horror film nominated for best picture.
|
|
The narrator reads her much-younger siblings "The Exorcist" and "Doctor Faustus" before bed.
|
|
Think Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" only not so green and with nicer eyes.
|
|
The man behind The Exorcist, author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, has died at 89.
|
|
He switched coffee mugs, trading out The Exorcist for the ghoulish face of Michael Myers.
|
|
So The Exorcist might not be the only scary flick to get the Sabrina treatment.
|
|
"The Exorcist," a horror series that begins Friday on Fox, has two demons to fight.
|
|
And you know, it's kind of an old movie now, but you know The Exorcist?
|
|
"When I get mad, I make the exorcist look like a bitch," Kidwell told investigators.
|
|
We never really know how Pazuzu ended up in Georgetown to possess Regan in The Exorcist.
|
|
When I went to see "The Exorcist" in the movie theater in 1973, I was thrilled.
|
|
Like "The Exorcist" it is one of six horror movies to be nominated for best picture.
|
|
Television shows, such as Fox's "The Exorcist", could also be encouraging customers to try a ritual.
|
|
There are no showy displays of special effects as in Hitchcock's "Psycho" or Friedkin's "The Exorcist".
|
|
Geena Davis stars in "The Exorcist," a scary new series inspired by the 113 horror classic.
|
|
I think maybe The Exorcist would be my number one pick for the scariest frickin' movie.
|
|
It was a benefit for PETA, but it was the grand re-release of The Exorcist.
|
|
And there are places where that's true throughout the 10-episode first season of Fox's Exorcist.
|
|
Nobody's watching The Exorcist, so calling it a "show of the moment" feels a bit presumptuous.
|
|
Most importantly the rite has to be meaningful for both the exorcist and the individual being exorcised.
|
|
The Lodge is haunted by its predecessors: a dash of The Shining, a twist of The Exorcist.
|
|
But he's like Wile E. Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon, or the priest in The Exorcist.
|
|
Halloween-friendly thrillers (Insomnia, Devil) and frightening flicks (The Exorcist, Estranged) will be gone by mid-October.
|
|
When owls twist their heads around exorcist-style, their blood vessels balloon out to create blood reservoirs.
|
|
She also starred in horror comedy Tragedy Girls and in the short-lived Fox series The Exorcist.
|
|
The priest referred her to an exorcist, who reached out to Gallagher for a mental health evaluation.
|
|
It was the second premiere of The Exorcist that they brought out, at the Grauman's Chinese Theater.
|
|
I remember I saw The Exorcist on TV when I was eight and scared myself to death.
|
|
" It also harkens back to the '70s and '80s, when you had "The Shining" and "The Exorcist.
|
|
The Exorcist There are a lot of barely lit shots of people looking scared in this trailer.
|
|
Italian exorcist and priest Beningo Palilla announced the plan to Vatican Radio, saying that the exorcist boot camp will "offer a rich reflection and articulation on a topic that is sometimes unspoken and controversial"—namely, the idea that evil spirits can take over someone's body from time to time.
|
|
One time I was going to write a book which was sort of 'The Exorcist in San Bernardino.
|
|
Television programmes that depict exorcism, notably imports from America such as Fox's "The Exorcist", may play a part.
|
|
Great horror addresses the cultural fears of its audience: Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
|
|
Spurlock's documentary is a "horror documentary," he explained, inspired by childhood viewings of Jaws, The Exorcist and Scanners.
|
|
Watch: Max von Sydow, who starred in "The Seventh Seal" and "The Exorcist," died on Sunday at 90.
|
|
In memoriam: Max von Sydow, who starred in "The Seventh Seal" and "The Exorcist," has died at 53.
|
|
Pauline Kael despised the film version of "The Exorcist" — she thought it was a shallow, tendentious gross-out.
|
|
William Friedkin, the director of "The Exorcist," had never seen an exorcism when he made his famous film.
|
|
We think Satan is on the side as the demons, and angels are on the side of the exorcist.
|
|
The Exorcist (1973) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) are two legendary examples of the film industry's enduring fascination with Satan.
|
|
There are the families dealing with evil incursions into their previously stable lives in Poltergeist, Insidious, and The Exorcist.
|
|
But what's most impressive about the second season of The Exorcist is how confidently it blends its many tones.
|
|
But that's almost no matter for the way The Exorcist keys in on what's psychologically horrifying about demonic possession.
|
|
That kicks off this week with premieres of "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist," two series derived from familiar movies.
|
|
"The Exorcist" faces a thornier challenge, and tries tackling it with slightly more ambition and style, but less clarity.
|
|
"When I get mad, I make the exorcist look like a b****," he told police, according to the document.
|
|
Earlier in the week, the blockbuster passed "The Exorcist" to become the highest-grossing horror movie of all time.
|
|
At times it felt like I was an exorcist, peering into the void and letting it speak through me.
|
|
Amazon has renewed Lore for a second season, bringing on Sean Crouch (from The Exorcist and Numb3rs) as showrunner.
|
|
Last May, William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, swore he had filmed a real exorcism at the Vatican.
|
|
VICE creative services, in partnership with the new FOX series THE EXORCIST, presents a series around real-life exorcisms.
|
|
Smith was responsible for the blood you enjoyed in such classics as The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather.
|
|
Also, these numbers have not been adjusted for inflation (which would turn "The Exorcist" into a $983 million earner).
|
|
Free Scary Halloween Sound Effects Sounds and music, including the scream from "Psycho" and the theme from "The Exorcist."
|
|
For no discernible reason, it went full Exorcist on me when I got my hand close to the screen.
|
|
From a professional cuddler to a celebrity exorcist, we explore niche professions that women in the field are dominating.
|
|
In fact, it sounded like several movies: maybe one starring Indiana Jones, or the early scenes of The Exorcist.
|
|
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) suggested that she made up allegations based on prose featured in the book The Exorcist.
|
|
Does the world need a TV version of The Exorcist (somewhat cleverly paired with the reality show Hell's Kitchen)?
|
|
Among them are Fr. Gary Thomas, the designated exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, who was consulted directly on the supernatural thriller The Rite, or Fr. Vincent Lampert, appointed as exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, where he balances his anti-demonic efforts with pastoring the 9,000 members of his parish.
|
|
The video was actually directed by William Friedkin of "The Exorcist" fame, which may explain some of its creep factor.
|
|
I did eventually finish "The Exorcist," but it took five years to get me back in front of the movie.
|
|
The episode of the week for December 10 through 16 is "Unworthy," the second season finale of Fox's The Exorcist.
|
|
While it's been receiving The Exorcist–level scary buzz, you wouldn't get that from a synopsis of Ari Aster's Hereditary.
|
|
Adjusted for today's ticket prices, "The Exorcist," which sold an estimated 116.5 million tickets, would have made around $1.04 billion.
|
|
By 1973, The Exorcist debuted featuring a ouija board, which only made them more popular, according to the Badfads Museum.
|
|
THE exorcist, Philippe Moscato, walks from room to room in a large Paris flat, sprinkling blessed water and offering incantations.
|
|
Later on, I ran across classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, and foreign films from masters like Dario Argento.
|
|
Like, I did a movie called 'The Disco Exorcist,' and my role was originally written as a sleazy porn director.
|
|
Maybe that has something to do with Fox's decision to slot "The Exorcist" on Friday nights, a TV dead zone.
|
|
He vomited 32 times in the one day and by the end it was like a scene from The Exorcist.
|
|
Os (Mark Proksch) is the gung-ho exorcist whose second opinion is solicited after his predecessor advises calm and tolerance.
|
|
Even before "The Exorcist," Mr. Blatty was known to bring an element of shock to his scripts, Professor Luhr said.
|
|
During her special, which was filmed in Chicago in December, Schumer said "I throw up an 'Exorcist' amount every day."
|
|
Notably, The Bad Seed, The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense, and Pan's Labyrinth all feature children delivering star turns in lead roles.
|
|
After The Exorcist was published in 1971, Blatty proceeded to write and produce the movie, which was released two years later.
|
|
You may have heard anecdotes about people having heart attacks or collapsing in theaters from watching horror movies like The Exorcist.
|
|
You probably already know the House Bunny trick, where you repeat the person's name after you hear it (Exorcist voice optional).
|
|
From full-out devil worshipping to an Exorcist-inspired episode, this iteration will have plenty of horror elements pulsing through it.
|
|
While she was shooting "The Exorcist" in 1972, Ellen Burstyn ventured to Carnegie Hall to hear the futurist Buckminster Fuller speak.
|
|
So dark that there will even be an episode inspired by The Exorcist sometime after the show premieres on October 26.
|
|
The next Sheila is projectile vomiting like she's got 25 clones of that kid from The Exorcist hiding in her stomach.
|
|
Then you've got an exorcist-like head spin viewed from a first person perspective, all set to a pulsating techno beat.
|
|
"I throw up an 'Exorcist' amount every day," said Schumer, who has an extreme form of nausea and vomiting called hyperemesis.
|
|
"Big Fish," like "The Exorcist," also has a celluloid forebear — the 2003 Tim Burton film, starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney.
|
|
In memoriam: The Swedish actor Max von Sydow, who starred in "The Seventh Seal" and "The Exorcist," has died at 90.
|
|
I saw "The Exorcist" on my 21st birthday and was so unnerved, I went to bed and missed my own party.
|
|
Bilé sees the average Catholic exorcist as a novice, but thinks they succeed because sometimes exorcism requires less effort than you think.
|
|
I've seen it myself, and, yes, the fact that I left dumbfounded and disturbed adds weight to the Exorcist-ey comparison above.
|
|
The Andrés Muschietti-directed film has earned over $500 million at the box office, where The Exorcist has only earned $441 million.
|
|
He then proceeded to run through a circuit of 'Exorcist'-looking facial contortions inviting me to follow along, which I gamely did.
|
|
Patricia Lockwood's father, previously an atheist, converted to Christianity after watching The Exorcist more than 70 times while aboard a naval submarine.
|
|
This led to roles abroad, including Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) and Father Lankester Merrin in "The Exorcist" (1973).
|
|
So, for example, when there was no objection when [Senator] Orrin Hatch started waving a copy of "The Exorcist" during the hearing.
|
|
He consulted with another friar on campus who was an ordained exorcist and gave me a blessing to say in my room.
|
|
" Her competition included another devilish young star: Linda Blair, the 15-year-old who had played the possessed Regan in "The Exorcist.
|
|
No, we're not advocating a stop at the psychiatrist (yet); your eye doctor may be the only medical professional — or exorcist — you need.
|
|
Dr. Crowe is an exorcist helped by his goth-assistant Sparrow, and the two attempt to exercise the various demons of Los Angeles.
|
|
If that doesn't look spooky enough, Halloween Horror Nights is also introducing a maze based on The Exorcist, The Los Angeles Times reported.
|
|
I can't even make any mean jokes, because the editor of this particular article loves La Croix like an exorcist loves holy water.
|
|
But like The Exorcist, it's tapped into a nation's fear of uncontrollable evil—even if the worst devils may be flesh and blood.
|
|
But he shudders as he recalls what happened one night in 1985, after watching "The Exorcist" on television as a 6-year-old.
|
|
Possible influences are the classic horror movie scores of Halloween, Suspiria, and The Exorcist, which contain high-pitched ostinatos as their main themes.
|
|
The Exorcist (1973), for example, ultimately walked away with a sole win for Adapted Screenplay, while Jaws had to settle for technical category wins.
|
|
As a High Priestess of Eclectic Witchcraft and a professional exorcist for 26 years, Rose has performed nearly 8,000 exorcisms all over the world.
|
|
As Moviefone reports, diehard fans — dubbed the Exorcist Congregation — have kicked off a new campaign today to secure the future of their favorite show.
|
|
When The Exorcist debuted as a TV series in the fall of 2016, fans of the classic film had every reason to be skeptical.
|
|
After that, The Sting won Best Picture, over a field of nominees that included The Exorcist, Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers, and American Graffiti.
|
|
Not to mention the Vatican has recently adopted a policy to have at least one exorcist in every diocese to meet the increasing demand.
|
|
Mr. Schwartz suspects that Bosch may have qualified as an exorcist — which naturally made me wonder: Could he have seen the demons he depicted?
|
|
Such coverage frequently came care of the exorcist and TV host Bob Larson, who frequently hosted Satanists on his anti-occult show Talk Back.
|
|
That turned out to be a bad idea, because after one bite I projectile vomited onto the table like the girl from The Exorcist.
|
|
Did we mention that she also started a gender-neutral line of children's clothing called CELINUNUNU that a Catholic priest and exorcist called 'Satanic'?
|
|
The episode of the week for December 11 through 17, 2016, is "Chapter Ten: Three Rooms" the first season finale of Fox's The Exorcist.
|
|
I watched 'A Clockwork Orange' by myself at thirteen, I saw 'Raging Bull' fourteen times, and 'The Omen' and 'The Exorcist' messed me up.
|
|
William Friedkin's 1973 horror film The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty, is widely considered one of the scariest movies ever made.
|
|
The episode even finds a way to incorporate what's very nearly a shot-for-shot homage to a terrific scare from the underrated Exorcist III.
|
|
The movie that made Steven Spielberg a household name, "Jaws" did for swimming what "Psycho" did for showers and "The Exorcist" did for pea soup.
|
|
There are some 100 exorcist priests licensed by the church in France, according to the International Association of Exorcists in Rome, but most are inactive.
|
|
This summer, Wondery debuted a new podcast from Mark Ramsey, the podcaster who was responsible for two earlier series, Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist.
|
|
"Conjuring up personified evil does not fall under free speech," Father Gary Thomas, who serves as an exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, Calif.
|
|
Critics dismissed the film, but it still became something of a cult classic that evoked "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," hit movies about demonic possession.
|
|
William Peter Blatty left us with "The Exorcist," which still has the power to terrify, in both its dog-eared pages and its movie adaptation.
|
|
" On Wednesday, there was "Magical, Esoteric and Occult Links to Some Alternative and Energy-giving Therapies," followed by Friday's "The Exorcist: Life, Choices and Mistake.
|
|
I thought of "The Exorcist" and "Signs" and for the rest of the puzzle my antennae were tuned to cinematic undertones, which are rife today.
|
|
"The Exorcist," the story of a 12-year-old girl possessed by a demon, was published in 1971 and sold more than 13 million copies.
|
|
I thought of "The Exorcist" and "Signs" and for the rest of the puzzle my antennae were tuned to cinematic undertones, which are rife today.
|
|
"[Adrian] had a cold, and he has a pretty bad gag reflex … he threw up, I mean, [Exorcist]-style, all over my entire body," Zee says.
|
|
Each season is a must-listen in its own right, but 2017's Inside The Exorcist is flat-out the scariest podcast that I've ever heard.
|
|
A scene of demonic possession sounds less like Regan in The Exorcist than someone with an advanced degree in Protestant theology having a total nervous breakdown.
|
|
One self-declared exorcist near Paris says he earns as much a €12,000 a month (before tax) by working 15-hour days, including consultations by phone.
|
|
A press release described it as "tonally in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist," so don't expect any pop star cameos in this iteration.
|
|
And it's in Joshua's family household that the series really reaches for what it clearly views as the height of the supernatural horror genre: The Exorcist.
|
|
The creepy toy not only has glowing green eyes of a scary hellbeast, it can also spin around and "walk" on walls and ceilings — Exorcist style.
|
|
Boylen's attitude isn't one to shepherd a very good team to the Finals, but he may be a logical exorcist for some of Chicago's bad habits.
|
|
Some of the leggiest films of all time include Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Exorcist, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
|
|
An album it released, Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells," (whose title song was the theme music to the movie "The Exorcist") made Virgin its first $1 million.
|
|
Max von Sydow, the man known for playing everyone from Father Merrin in The Exorcist to the Three-Eyed Raven in Game of Thrones has died.
|
|
It's a "dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft," with tonal aspirations toward Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
|
|
His Poster for Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) is a simple image of a man standing before a house, under a streetlight, in stark black and white.
|
|
For it to work, you have to stay in the same position, but his girlfriend sneezed, and, well, the results are like something out of The Exorcist.
|
|
IT has been a box office behemoth, breaking records for R-rated film openings, beating The Exorcist as the highest-grossing domestic horror film of all time.
|
|
Its extension of the existing Exorcist franchise — while remaining a compelling TV show — would have done the series' new corporate parent (a certain big-eared mouse) proud.
|
|
Think of Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist, both movies about the fear that your child might be some otherworldly thing that even its mother struggles to love.
|
|
The strategy to open big and then release even wider helped "Jaws" break box office records previously set by "The Godfather" and "The Exorcist," according to PBS.
|
|
Accompanying the rise of Satanism as a recognized practice was the 1971 publication of William Peter Blatty's bestselling novel The Exorcist and its blockbuster 1973 film adaptation.
|
|
Oscar voters also offered rare respect for a horror film: The Exorcist was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and received two, for best sound and Blatty's screenplay.
|
|
Each diocese of the Roman Catholic Church appoints its own exorcist, typically a parish priest, who is expected to meet the Rituale Romanum's criteria for the role.
|
|
The Exorcist transports the terrifying movie to Fox TV this fall, following two priests as they take different approaches to banishing the demons from one poor family.
|
|
Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, was renowned as an exorcist (which may explain Matisyahu's turn as a dybbuk-rebuker in The Possession).
|
|
Released in 1973, The Exorcist centers around the unrelenting demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother's tireless attempts to save her soul through an exorcism.
|
|
My favorite sleepovers were at the house of a friend with an older brother and a pile of VHS tapes: Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, Halloween.
|
|
Between the funerals, dollhouses, and a weirdo kid with a decapitated bird, Hereditary is clearly a horror film, the kind steeped in the tradition of The Exorcist.
|
|
As Father Merrin, von Sydow plays an exorcist who's essentially tasked with putting to rest an evil he inadvertently summoned on an archaeological dig, joining a younger priest in an effort to expel the demon that's taken residence in Washington, D.C. Friedkin's technical mastery accounts for much of the reason "The Exorcist" is held in such high esteem, but performances like von Sydow's add a human dimension to the shocks.
|
|
Exorcism and the Catholic Church seem inseparable thanks to films like The Exorcist and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, as well as the church's own proclamations of exclusivity.
|
|
So if you or a loved one isn't a linguist and starts quoting dead languages, stinking of sulfur, and levitating an exorcist could be helpful—alongside a shrink.
|
|
Americans had become so disenchanted, according to the journalist and historian Rick Perlstein, that bleak and frightening films such as 1974's "The Exorcist" captured the national mood.
|
|
The Exorcist offers just enough skepticism about the actual existence of demons to let you relax and believe that, no, what's happening here isn't just grief run amok.
|
|
My colleague Aja Romano, for instance, showed just how The Exorcist drove real-life scares around Ouija boards, which were later translated into horror movies about Ouija boards.
|
|
In a mainstream horror movie with the same scenario, someone would ask where Martin got his uncanny power, and whether an exorcist might be found to defeat him.
|
|
Coupled with the rise in popularity of "adult" American horror films like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, the studio's film output ceased completely before the end of the decade.
|
|
An exorcist himself and former state senator from Colorado Springs (arguably the evangelical capital of the US), Klingenschmitt feels that the practice has been misrepresented by the media.
|
|
The exorcism subgenre and its trappings — priests screaming at levitating victims, crazy-devil voices, the vomiting of evil colored substances — haven't much changed since "The Exorcist" in 1973.
|
|
Fox promotes its hit show "Empire," and a number of new shows, including "Pitch," about a woman who is a baseball player, and "The Exorcist," which looks terrifying.
|
|
In "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," a mother's anxiety is the screen on which those fears are projected, and "Hereditary" exploits the perplexities of maternity to similar effect.
|
|
London Theater Reviews LONDON — Midway through the West End premiere of the laborious sound and light show "The Exorcist," I kept returning to one question: What's the point?
|
|
It appears people have been watching a lot of horror movies lately, with one person naming their vagina after The Exorcist and another calling theirs The Babadook. Nice.
|
|
Like the "Exorcist" relic, the opal proves an ominous if more contemporary fetish with a near-magical, increasingly dangerous hold on everyone who comes in contact with it.
|
|
He often lamented his success with "The Exorcist," despite having won an Academy Award for it, because it wiped the first part of his career from people's minds.
|
|
When we first meet Sidney, she is turning down her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) for sex, a smart move considering he's just compared their love life to The Exorcist.
|
|
Placing all of these disparate entities under one demonic umbrella limits an exorcist's ability to properly engage these forces, according to both Bilé and exorcist and witch Lizzy Rose.
|
|
The braininess and irreverence of the craft suited Bloom, a top-of-her-class English student who chose "The Exorcist" as the subject of her eighth-grade book project.
|
|
Whether it's Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Shining, or most of the slasher movies that we know … the female experience is really kind of central to the horror genre.
|
|
A Vatican exorcist, Gabriele Amorth, once alleged that he had discovered during his exorcism work that she had been seized by Vatican insiders and used as a sex slave.
|
|
Through efforts like the International Association of Exorcists (which he founded in 1990) and the memoir An Exorcist Tells His Story, Amorth saw the Vatican gradually revive his art.
|
|
In memoriam: Krzysztof Penderecki, an avant-garde Polish composer and conductor whose versatile compositions appeared in concert halls and in films like "The Exorcist," died on Sunday at 86.
|
|
Somewhere in your house is the Mama Tattletail, a larger, vacuum-sized Teddy Ruxpin-style cassette player that can twist its head around like the kid from The Exorcist.
|
|
Friedkin used a hand-held camera to film an interview with Father Amorth, the chief Vatican exorcist, who worried that "Satan rules the world" and was in the Vatican.
|
|
With the same purpose in mind, Mr. Blatty rewrote parts of the original book, even adding a chapter, for a 40th-anniversary edition of "The Exorcist" published in 2011.
|
|
There's one key reason the show won me over: Instead of going for broke on horror, it remembered that at its heart, The Exorcist is something you wouldn't expect.
|
|
This being American television, the answers to these dark queries are mostly "yes," but The Exorcist leaves room for the notion that something truly awful lurks around every corner.
|
|
Father Thomas, who works as an exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, alleges that organizers and those attending the ritual are part of a "cult" that must be stopped.
|
|
Father Benigno Palilla, an exorcist for the diocese of Palermo, told Vatican Radio in February that he had performed about 50 exorcisms in the past two and a half years.
|
|
Syfy describes its version as the "Exorcist in space," and the ten-episode series will begin screening on December 2nd, with a new episode each week night until December 13th.
|
|
The demonic, terrifyingly uncanny children of "The Exorcist" (1973) and "The Omen" (20193) exploit maternal fears of finding a child alien and unlikable, and test the concept of unconditional love.
|
|
Roughly half of the customers for one exorcist near Paris, for example, are immigrants, notably Africans ready to turn to fee-charging and charismatic exorcists rather than church-sanctioned ones.
|
|
The Exorcist (1973) Simple, yet incredibly haunting, the original theatrical trailer for the possession classic features snapshot glimpses of poor little Regan and the demon that takes over her life.
|
|
Globally, however, the most recognizable may be Catholic exorcist is Fr. Gabriele Amorth, the maverick priest who has spent the past 26 years pressuring Popes to pay attention to possessions.
|
|
Some see this increase in demand for exorcisms as an outgrowth of popular culture's fascination with the practice, which was kicked off in 1973 with William Friedkin's film The Exorcist.
|
|
By the end of the premiere, we've already had an "Exorcist" scene, and as the show goes along, Anderson does the cross-and-scripture thing we've seen a zillion times.
|
|
However, keep in mind that doesn't mean you destroy the kitchen to make breakfast and then allow me to emerge to a scene that resembles the set of The Exorcist.
|
|
A professed agnostic, he decided recently to "complete the circle" and spent some time shadowing the Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, just before Amorth's passing at the age of 91.
|
|
The man who wrote "The Exorcist" wanted people to forget about the girl who was possessed by the Devil, who was flung about her bed as she spoke in tongues.
|
|
Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director of such films as "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection," became hooked on Proust by way of his first wife, the actress Jeanne Moreau.
|
|
In a story posted in the "Missed Connections" category, I describe a particularly stupid and silly one-night stand, which like most quality MCs, makes multiple references to The Exorcist.
|
|
During a celebratory 45th anniversary Q&A with star Ellen Burstyn, director William Friedkin recounted a fire that burned a large portion of the set of The Exorcist to the ground.
|
|
By contrast, "The Exorcist" was essentially a title in search of a show, and it's still not entirely clear what to expect beyond the spooky but somewhat messy and scattered pilot.
|
|
From around the world came reports of fainting, puking, epileptic fits, audience members charging the screen and waving rosary beads, and, in England, a boy committing murder and blaming The Exorcist.
|
|
It's a buddy-detective series about a skeptic and a believer, in the venerable tradition of "The X-Files," with a little (and sometimes a lot) of "The Exorcist" tossed in.
|
|
While I no longer identify as religious, when I rewatched "The Exorcist" in my freshman year of college, that familiar fear of the consequences of good and bad crept back in.
|
|
" Before Donald Trump became president, the most frightening thing that happened in the capital was "The Exorcist," which brags on its DVD cover that it's "the scariest film of all time.
|
|
Hendrix also thinks the original Exorcist draws a lot of its power from the fact that William Peter Blatty is a true believer, and wrote the novel to promote his religious worldview.
|
|
It was one of the first breakthroughs for an Australian series in the U.S. Meanwhile, check out Linda Blair, coming off The Exorcist, starring in Chained Heat, which apparently merited three sequels.
|
|
Viewers of The Exorcist have found a clever new way to persuade Fox to renew the drama, based on the famous book and film of the same name, for a second season.
|
|
The movies the study found most teenagers watching were The Exorcist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, Evil Dead, 28 Days Later, The Conjuring and Alien.
|
|
Tracing the sign of the cross on the sufferer's body and periodically dousing him or her with holy water, the exorcist proceeds through a knock-down, drag-out fight with the demon.
|
|
The themes are the same — spooky children, demonic voices, lots of underage swearing — but the cinematography looks very different, with the TV Exorcist borrowing modern horror techniques to ramp up the tension.
|
|
Often, faith has been relegated to syrupy treatments ("Touched by an Angel"), used as a vehicle for supernatural plots (see Fox's "The Exorcist," coming this fall, and Cinemax's "Outcast") or ignored altogether.
|
|
" When Brandeis finally "traded in the 'sick girl' mantle," her sister Elizabeth picks up right where she leaves off and begins projectile vomiting at the dinner table "like something from 'The Exorcist.
|
|
In the absence of conventional therapies, many people are turning to traditional healers including Yakub's exorcist - a spry 70-year-old called Aden Igaal who goes by the name of Dr. Hyena.
|
|
She will now return home and resume her role as the family pet and hang with her best buddies — a Chihuahua named Massimo and a Chinese crested named X, short for Exorcist.
|
|
Cramming several tons of plot into a one-pound screenplay, the three writers (one of whom, Jeremy Slater, created Fox television's thoughtful adaptation of "The Exorcist") have little option but to condense.
|
|
In the absence of conventional therapies, many people are turning to traditional healers including Yakub's exorcist - a spry 70-year-old called Aden Igaal who goes by the name of Dr. Hyena.
|
|
And it's also the network that was unable to make Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which ran from 2008 to 2009) a hit and will launch a new Exorcist series this fall.
|
|
"I dressed her up as [Regan] from The Exorcist and I dressed myself as the priest," he shares of the outfits he chose for himself and Briahna when she was around Kloey's age.
|
|
The band pays homage to Bernard Herrmann's needly orchestral music for Psycho and the strange vocal effects from The Exorcist, but the band creates its own cacophony of torturous tones and supernatural sounds.
|
|
Blockbuster distinguishes itself in other ways as well — it's not a "making of" in the same way as Mark Ramsey's Inside Psycho, Inside The Exorcist, Inside Jaws — and most recently, Inside Star Wars.
|
|
When season two of The Exorcist begins, Andy and the kids in his home are all still trying to find a way to move past the suicide of Andy's wife, Nicole (Alicia Witt).
|
|
There's a fair bit of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby in Hereditary, which draws on Satanic Panic ideas without directly evoking them, and draws out the story with a 1970s-style slow build.
|
|
Filmmaker Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the recent Exorcist TV series) is scheduled to direct several episodes of the series, which is expected to begin production in early 2019.
|
|
Among the film institute's top villains were "Star Wars' " Darth Vader and Regan MacNeil from "The Exorcist," both of whom have facial scars, abnormal skin color and deep, dark circles around their eyes.
|
|
That's probably The Exorcist or Poltergeist—neither of which is a comedy, but both of which have also been rebooted, and at least one of which let a woman take on the apparitions.
|
|
Inspired by an incident in a Washington suburb that Blatty had read about while in college, The Exorcist was published in 1971, followed two years later by the film of the same name.
|
|
"I had people telling me it was too dangerous for me to leave the house, or that I looked like The Exorcist when I had a seizure, and other awful things," she says.
|
|
Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") plays the antisocial antihero, and Philip Glenister, the wild-man cop of the original "Life on Mars," plays the preacher who presses him into duty as an assistant exorcist.
|
|
Horror is not typically the Oscars' thing, but when it hits a certain level of craft, as with Get Out, The Silence of the Lambs, or The Exorcist, Oscar voters often takes notice.
|
|
Actor Max von Sydow, whose seven-decade career included roles as Father Merrin in the horror film "The Exorcist" and Emperor Ming in the cult classic "Flash Gordon," died Sunday, his agent said.
|
|
And Ms. Rowlson-Hall can really move: Back-bending in slow motion or cavorting in men's underwear, her bruised and abused body seems often more in need of an exorcist than a midwife.
|
|
So far, so good — but The Exorcist is just getting started, piling twist after twist onto its basic story, in ways that both invert and build upon the structure of the original story.
|
|
Despite the outrage from some movie goers, critics and priests, The Exorcist had enormous box office success, raking in $400 million worldwide at the box office, which was especially unusual for R-rated films.
|
|
Classy move, but it led to some of the most interesting dance maneuvers I've seen in my life—somewhere between jazzercise-on-ketamine and the kind of contortions that usually call for an exorcist.
|
|
You're probably already traumatized for life thanks to William Friedkin's seminal '70s film The Exorcist, but the new Fox show of the same name seems equally determined to make sure you never sleep again.
|
|
Directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist), Bug stars Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, and Harry Connick Jr. in a chilling psychological horror film based on a play by Tracy Letts (who also wrote the screenplay).
|
|
As of this writing, you can't watch Annie Hall, Argo, The Exorcist, This Is Spinal Tap, Taxi Driver, Schindler's List, The Muppet Movie, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Fight Club, or Frozen on Netflix.
|
|
" With "The Conjuring 2," he said, "I really wanted to try and bring the kind of respect back to studio horror filmmaking — 'Jaws,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Poltergeist,' 'The Amityville Horror,' these were big studio films.
|
|
Max von Sydow -- the Swedish actor best known for his notable roles such as the priest in "The Exorcist" and the Three-Eyed Raven on "Game of Thrones" -- has died ... according to his family.
|
|
He said that every diocese should have an exorcist on hand, but that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and its "confusion" had eroded exorcism expertise and deprived seminarians of instruction in demonology.
|
|
Oldfield would become the first artist signed to Virgin Records, where he produced "Tubular Bells," (whose title song was the theme music to the movie "The Exorcist") and made Virgin its first $1 million.
|
|
Meanwhile, that same secular world maintained a consistent fascination, from "The Exorcist" down to, well, the Met Gala, with all the weirder parts of Catholicism that were supposedly a stumbling block to modernity's conversion.
|
|
When an Atlantic Records executive started listening to the album, he happened to be in the room with William Friedkin, a film director looking for a new soundtrack for his latest project, The Exorcist. Luck?
|
|
The attrition isn't too bad this month, but Netflix users will lose the classic Goodfellas on May 1st, and HBO subscribers will lose the original The Exorcist and M. Night Shyamalan's Split on May 31st.
|
|
The Conjuring scored an 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as praise for its smart plot, cinematic beauty, and well-crafted scare-moments that harken back to classic horror films like The Exorcist.
|
|
The couple hit up the theme park with a group of friends and made sure to experience all the mazes, including ones inspired by The Purge, American Horror Story, The Exorcist and Freddy vs. Jason.
|
|
" Hatch preposterously accused Hill of scavenging her testimony about Long Dong Silver from an old law case, and her story about Thomas asking "Who put pubic hair on my Coke?" from the novel, "The Exorcist.
|
|
William Peter Blatty, the author whose best-selling book "The Exorcist" was both a milestone in horror fiction and a turning point in his own career, died on Thursday in Bethesda, Md. He was 89.
|
|
They simply replaced the direct accusations they made against Hill (such as saying her story came from the film "The Exorcist") by indirectly discrediting Ford's story as if it were a product of partisan strategy.
|
|
At this weekend's third annual Fed Up Fest, a Chicago queercore punk music festival, you could find Natalie Krueger of Minneapolis's Naïve Sense screaming with a voice as guttural as Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
|
|
Last year Fox launched a special Exorcist-themed escape room in Los Angeles, and just in the past two months we've checked out escape rooms tied to The Legend of Zelda and the Resident Evil series.
|
|
These buttons, which have been short-circuited by the piss, start taking on a life of their own by going on and off and pretty much doing their best impression of Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
|
|
To be fair, Semi-Pro does not have a scene where the team mascot, a giant rat, is tied down, exorcised by a priest, and eventually decapitated as a part of a specially themed Exorcist Night.
|
|
But the difference between "Hereditary" and "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist" — horror classics to which it has been compared — is that rather that representing ultimate evil, the prince of darkness feels like a small, secondhand presence.
|
|
Set in the Georgetown area of Washington, "The Exorcist" tells the story of 12-year-old Regan MacNeil, whose disturbing behavior prompts her mother to seek an exorcism after medical doctors are unable to help her daughter.
|
|
Wan also embraces the horror movie tradition of homage: nods to the new-age fantasy of Insidious, Asian horror tropes, and, of course, The Conjuring's forbearers Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcist are on full display.
|
|
A far cry from the bright and comedic, 1996 take Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, the new project reimagines the story as something much darker and more cinematically in line with films like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
|
|
A family drama that slowly morphs into a supernatural horrorshow, it's steeped in the tradition of '60s and '70s horror classics like The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, and like those films, it has a high-class cast.
|
|
Sarah and Nik Galego, a couple in Victoria, BC, bought a Hatchimal (one of the season's hottest toys) for their six-year-old son, and when unwrapped, the little thing started to channel Regan from The Exorcist.
|
|
Montoya's strategy, however, isn't particularly novel: In May, the Vatican held its 14th annual exorcist conference, though this was the first time they allowed secularists and people of other faiths to participate in defense against the devil.
|
|
Murder By Death's 2002 debut, Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing, saw the band still honing their sound, but managing to fire off the trancing "Intergalactic Menopause," a long build-up that never really winds up anywhere.
|
|
Von Sydow played Father Merrin in The Exorcist and was nominated for two Oscars during his career (the only Swedish actor to be nominated), for Pelle the Conqueror in 1987 and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in 2011.
|
|
While budding exorcists waited in line for pasta behind texting students, or discussed the manifestations of pure evil over yogurt, Mr. Ferrari said he hoped to invite the pope's preferred exorcist, a Lutheran, to next year's conference.
|
|
She injects whimsical imagery (spying dolphins, "violent bedhead") into weightier reveries in a manner that can make your head, like the unlucky little girl's in "The Exorcist," perform what in ice skating they call a double axel.
|
|
Yet Mr. Blatty managed to sneak comedic elements into "The Exorcist" too, Professor Paul said — for example, in the scene where a psychiatrist hypnotizes the girl and grows increasingly confident that he is gaining control of her.
|
|
As the first season finale played out, I was surprised how invested I was in seeing the characters get out of the story alive — even though retellings of The Exorcist usually feature a fair number of corpses.
|
|
Denver head coach Gary Kubiak put an Exorcist-level fear into Booker owners talking about Kapri Bibbs this past week, after Booker did little and Bibbs took a dump-off 69 yards to the house against the Raiders.
|
|
Tim Burton's 1988 classic Beetlejuice is the latest film to get the stage musical treatment, with Tony nominee Alex Brightman (School of Rock) stepping into Michael Keaton's shoes as the title role of everyone's favorite freelance bio-exorcist.
|
|
The streaming series ditches the shiny, kitschy vaneer of the Melissa Joan Hart version of the Archie Comics character we remember from childhood for an actually chilling adventure influenced by the likes of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby.
|
|
Hereditary—which stars Toni Collette as a woman dealing with her young family's demons, both literally and figuratively—was praised as "a new generation's The Exorcist" by Time Out and "the most exciting movie" at Sundance by Variety.
|
|
The moisture in the air serve as a sort of environmental sauna for these lucky denizens, cleansing all that nastiness from their pores and expelling it out of their system like Linda Blair's green barf in The Exorcist.
|
|
That Jesus carried out a ministry of miracle-working and exorcisms is so widely attested in every stratum of the sources that the consensus among historical Jesus scholars is that Jesus was, indeed, a faith-healer and exorcist.
|
|
Sure, plays have been fashioned from films many times before, and "The Exorcist" was a best-selling creep-out of a novel by William Peter Blatty before it ever became an era-defining shocker on screen in 1973.
|
|
Linda Blair becomes a demon for The Exorcist A then-13-year-old Blair camera tested a number of different demon looks before filmmakers settled on the iconic possessed face we all know and love (or love to hate).
|
|
Its company includes the "Exorcist" stairs in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington; the Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the "Law & Order" stairs at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, which the show's attorneys often climb.
|
|
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is still on the Judiciary Committee, asserted that Hill had been "coached" by special interests and made a ludicrous charge that Hill's story had actually been taken from William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist.
|
|
At first glance, the TV iteration of The Exorcist seemed completely unconnected to the 1973 film that has terrified audiences for decades, but Friday's episode of the Fox thriller revealed that the show isn't a reimagining — it's a sequel.
|
|
Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie The Exorcist, has died.
|
|
That is why there are no doctors in Aster's film, and no detectives, either, urgently though both are required; nor does a man of God arrive, as he does in " The Exorcist " (1973), to lay the anguish to rest.
|
|
In fact, in the annals of filmmaking, just a handful of horror films have managed to snag a Best Picture nomination: The Exorcist (1973), Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs (1990), The Sixth Sense (1999), and Black Swan (2010).
|
|
Hereditary has already been praised as "a new generation's The Exorcist," but it seems like Charlie is also in the running for this generation's Damien from The Omen, as the new reason for parents to secretly fear their children.
|
|
In VR, I'd crane my neck around corners, trying to get a sense of what's ahead, or swivel my head, à la The Exorcist, to keep an eye on whatever grotesque, lumbering creature was chasing, as I sprinted away.
|
|
The 1970s In the early 1970s, horror broke into the mainstream in a big way, primarily with the astronomical success of "The Exorcist" in 1973, which alone topped the collective total of any box office year in the decade.
|
|
Yet Biden let Orrin Hatch, the Republican Savonarola from Utah, imply that Thomas could not possibly know the vocabulary of porn and suggest that Hill had gotten the pubic hair line from "The Exorcist," which she had never read.
|
|
Speaking of Halloween: We're not going to waste your time recommending such tried-and-true classics as Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Jaws (1975), The Shining (1980), or, well, Halloween (1978).
|
|
Anime Strike's library includes series like Scum Wish and Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (broadcast on the same day they air in Japan) as well as classic films like Akira and Paprika, and exclusives content such as Onihei and The Great Passage.
|
|
"I am a full-time pastor and this is a very intense ministry," says Father Thomas, the official exorcist of the diocese of San Jose in northern California who has performed between 50 and 60 exorcisms over the past ten years.
|
|
Tonally in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family, and the daylight world humans inhabit.
|
|
Tonally in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
|
|
More specifically, the dusty, enigmatic opener in "Uncut Gems" drolly echoes the start of "The Exorcist" (1973), where a priest at an archaeological dig in Iraq unearths the demonic relic that sets off the ensuing horror, the possession and spewing vomit.
|
|
Drew Barrymore undergoes a makeover onscreen as a California real estate agent in the sexual doldrums who, after vomiting like something out of "The Exorcist," morphs into a bodacious huntress with a vigilante streak and a taste for human flesh.
|
|
When he declined his publisher's entreaties for a sequel to "The Exorcist" and instead delivered an elegiac memoir about his mother, "I'll Tell Them I Remember You," published in 21966, Mr. Blatty felt the first cinch of the horror-writing straitjacket.
|
|
It instead posits style as a lingua franca, a shared resource — or perhaps as the voice of a menacing collective unconscious, like that of the demon Pazuzu, in the film The Exorcist, which provides titles for many works in the show.
|
|
There's at least a moderately sincere attempt to stage a vaguely "realistic" (whatever that adjective means) exorcism on a network TV budget (in a way that pays cheeky homage to the movie The Exorcist) while also parodying basic cable ghost hunter reality shows.
|
|
Throw in American Horror Story: Hotel, and Netflix is looking pretty solid — except that the service is actually losing The Exorcist, which is such a Halloween faux pas that it's hard to understand how such a thing could be allowed to happen.
|
|
The central character of this vivid, unrelentingly funny memoir is the author's father—a Catholic priest whose first stirrings of faith came, after he was already married, by way of repeated viewings of "The Exorcist" while he was serving in the Navy.
|
|
Without the anti-nausea effects of the CB1 receptor in the brain, severe Exorcist-type vomiting ensues, the type that will echo through a whole ER. Multiple doses of the traditional nausea medications like ondansetron and metoclopramide may or may not help.
|
|
But that hasn't stopped his detractors from casting him as a terrifying enemy of the faith — Regan in "The Exorcist" and Damien in "The Omen" rolled together and grown up into a balding and bespectacled Jesuit — and silencing him whenever they can.
|
|
Babysitters put on The Exorcist in the living room, and I only pretended to go to sleep, then sat cross-legged on the second floor, head thrust between the banister rails, intent on learning what happens when a demon possesses a little girl.
|
|
Hereditary, the horror film billed as "a new generation's The Exorcist," hits theaters this Friday, but it's already completely traumatized Sundance, SXSW, some kids in Australia, and early audiences, who've more or less collectively agreed that it's the scariest movie of the year.
|
|
Saturday Night Live has always cranked out classic sketches in honor of Halloween, from the Clinton's Halloween Party to the Exorcist sequel starring Richard Pryor to Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins—and on Saturday, Chance the Rapper and SNL gave us another one.
|
|
Truth be told, the season's final handful of episodes can't quite match up to its midsection, though the finale — which features Andy and tortured exorcist Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera) finding a way to trick the demon just long enough to defeat it — comes close.
|
|
At today's average ticket price, the film would have made nearly $1 billion in the U.S. One of only six horror films to be nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, "The Exorcist" has hauled in more than $232.9 million since its 19393 debut.
|
|
For someone like me who saw the power of connection build a vibrant, technologically meshed ecosystem distinguished by peace, love, and understanding, the polarization and hatred empowered by the internet today is like watching your baby turning into the little girl in The Exorcist.
|
|
Father Gabriel Amorth, perhaps the most famous exorcist in modern history (and subject of an upcoming William Friedkin documentary), told the Telegraph that the rise in exorcisms is connected to the proliferation of Eastern faiths such as yoga and the popularity of Harry Potter books.
|
|
Here are just a few of the very many things I learned on the two ghost tours I've been on so far: None of this information is particularly useful, but it's more useful than just crying weakly at a midnight showing of The Exorcist.
|
|
We live in a world where intellectual property translates to cash, and the idea of closing the book on a money-printing character like Wolverine seems like the kind of effort that might make an executive or two whiplash their head around like The Exorcist.
|
|
For the second fall in a row, a bubble of new shows based on crowd-pleasing Hollywood films — "Westworld" on HBO, "Frequency" on CW, "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist" (and the live "Rocky Horror Picture Show") on Fox — makes the movie comparison seem particularly apt.
|
|
But few believed the 2000 rerelease of "The Exorcist" — restoring several scenes that the director William Friedkin had removed over the objections of the writer and producer William Peter Blatty — to be superior to the version that had terrified moviegoers for the previous 27 years.
|
|
Horror stories always work best when they're rooted in real, human traumas, and The Exorcist has always had at its center the relationship between mother and daughter — and what happens when that daughter enters adolescence and starts to resent her parents for even existing.
|
|
The first time I traveled to Vegas for the so called "Oscars of Porn" was back in 2008 when a couple of friends of mine were nominated for AVN Awards for an Exorcist porn parody called The XXXorcist and I went along for the ride.
|
|
Here's a 20-year-old version of the iconic 'Exorcist' star at a party in New York City back in 1979 (left) and 37 years later ... the Golden Globe winning actress -- who's embracing the Halloween spirit -- last month at Universal Studios Hollywood (right). Head-turning!
|
|
Prosecutors charged Burch and Algarad — the former John Larson, a "weird goth kid" in the words of a former classmate, who had dropped out of school following his parents' divorce and legally changed his name to mimic that of a demon in The Exorcist — with the murders.
|
|
"It" features a clown wearing a silver suit clutching a fistful of balloons (now, of course, everyone knows clowns are terrifying, so the new adaptation borrows visual motifs from classic horror films—"The Ring" (1998, 2002), "The Exorcist" (1973), the work of George Romero, even "Jaws" (1975)).
|
|
Hype for Hereditary has certainly been high — Time Out New York's Joshua Rothkopf called the film "a new generation's The Exorcist" — but worrying that a movie isn't going to be horrifying enough to meet expectations is a long way from trying to avoid making horror movies altogether.
|
|
CineFix's list (they're are obviously spoilers and NSFW scenes involved):The Shining's elevator scene - existential doom and dreadDon't Look Now's murder scene- Being inside the horrorCache - Human psyche perversionThe Exorcist - Spider Walk - Human body perversionMulholland Drive's diner scene - DreadZodiac's basement scene - SuspenseJaw's floating head scene - Jump scare
|
|
The surface reason for this difference is of course thanks to both series' respective influences — where Riverdale is Rebel Without A Cause meets 90210, Sabrina is all The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, executive producer Sarah Schechter told Refinery29 last month — but, the separation goes deeper than that.
|
|
The No. 1 film of 1973, for example, was The Exorcist — which, yes, went further than any horror film ever had before in depicting the horrors of demonic possession, but was still fundamentally about the ultimate battle between good and evil, with clear delineations between the two.
|
|
The new Stephen King adaptation is on pace to become the highest-grossing horror flick of all time by Thursday, at which point it will have floated past the current record holder, 1973's The Exorcist (which has a $232.9 million lifetime domestic gross), according to Deadline.
|
|
A series-length contemporary version of The Exorcist starring Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera will possess Fox's Friday nights alongside a new season of Hell's Kitchen, and a new take on Lethal Weapon starring Damon Wayans will lead into new episodes of Empire on Wednesday nights.
|
|
And so they tried everything, and gave us Coppola and Lucas and Scorsese and Spielberg, and everything from Annie Hall and Badlands and Chinatown and Dog Day Afternoon and The Exorcist to, God help us, Zardoz, plus a thousand terrible movies that no one remembers any more.
|
|
Founded by the controversial exorcist Bob Larson, the program blends elements of both the Rituale Romanum (crosses and holy water) and Charismatic deliverance ministry (anointing oil and the Bible) with technological innovations (in recent years, Larson has claimed to conduct a number of exorcisms via Skype).
|
|
"Shove It Up Your Ass, You Faggot!" and "Your Mother Sucks Cock in Hell," the titles of two sculptural collages that combine classical and early-Christian fragments, are phrases spoken by the demon in "The Exorcist," which Vo saw on video when he was a young boy.
|
|
A climactic attempt to drive the malicious "Shadow Monster" out of Will — who's been infected with some sort of evil virus — lifts heavily from The Exorcist, for instance, but in a way where you're not doing a mental shot-for-shot comparison to that classic film.
|
|
For the most part, though, Satanism in India seems to be an affect—a blend of goth aesthetic and interest in the occult that has less to do with the country's indigenous occult practices, and more to do with Hollywood films like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
|
|
I wouldn't bet on another surprise renewal, but I could see where one might happen — or at least that would've been the case before Disney bought Fox, and The Exorcist show with it, consigning the show, along with nearly all of my other favorite Fox properties, to limbo.
|
|
When you look at some of the "true accounts" of devil cults on the evangelical Christian circuit in the '80s, many of them sound less like anything that could really happen and much more like the third acts of movies like Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen.
|
|
There's a whiff of the postmodern in Paul Tremblay, too, as he showed in last year's wonderful "A Head Full of Ghosts," which riffed on "Exorcist"-type novels of demonic possession, and as he demonstrates again in the new DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL'S ROCK (Morrow, $25.99, available later this month).
|
|
This weekend brings two projects whose roots hearken back not just to that period but specifically 1973: "Westworld," the second season of HBO's reengineered update of Michael Crichton's tale; and "The Devil and Father Amorth," a documentary -- complete with a recorded exorcism -- from "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin.
|
|
When: Friday, October 28, 8:30pm–12:193am Where: Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Midtown, Manhattan) As part of its ongoing young audience-oriented PopRally programming, the Museum of Modern Art is hosting a ghastly gathering around a screening of the 1973 film The Exorcist.
|
|
"I love The Exorcist and the things that come from inside you, the things that are a little more subtle, and things that you deal with from inwards, and I feel like it's something Selena and I both love talking about…that topic is sort of dear to us," she said.
|
|
We Happy Few, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, The Final Station, Rome 2: Rise of the republic, Breath of the Wild, Hollow Knight, Is it Wrong to Pick Up a Girl in a Dungeon, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Exorcist (TV series), Gaslight, The Philadelphia Story, Mamma Mia, The Aviator.
|
|
With its claims of being based on a true story, The Exorcist profoundly impacted America's collective psyche regarding the existence of demons, and single-handedly transformed the popular Ouija board from a fun, harmless parlor game into a malevolent device capable of inducing spirit possession, demonic infestation, or other paranormal activity.
|
|
" He would go on to appear in over 100 movies and TV shows, playing characters ranging from Jesus Christ in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and Father Merrin in "The Exorcist" to the emperor, Ming, in "Flash Gordon," Dr. Naehring in "Shutter Island" and The Renter in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
|
|
It has always carried the thrill of seeing something illicit, from the days when the reveal of the Phantom of the Opera's face caused viewers to shriek to when The Exorcist played up the fact that some theatergoers couldn't handle it as a way to almost dare people into going.
|
|
Frum is a fundamentally serious man, and his particular brand of seriousness manifested itself as he briefed me on the rules of the Exorcist Steps, which are usually crowded both with tourists looking to get the perfect picture at the cinematic landmark and athletes who simply want to work out.
|
|
In the 90s, they accomplished what studio films like The Godfather and The Exorcist achieved in the 70s; sure, big budget films like Titanic and Forrest Gump continued to dominate awards season, but numerous indie films broke out into the mainstream, such as Kevin Smith's Clerks and Wes Anderson's Rushmore.
|
|
Around the season's midpoint, it dropped its biggest twist: It was actually a sequel to the Exorcist story we knew and loved, and its central mother (played by Geena Davis) was Reagan MacNeil, her possession long behind her, all grown up, only to find one of her daughters carried off by the devil.
|
|
The Academy places all sorts of restrictions on actors — you can no longer be nominated if all of your dialogue was dubbed (like The Exorcist did when it received a nomination for Linda Blair as a possessed child, whose voice was largely dubbed), you can't be nominated twice in the same category, etc.
|
|
Check out all the nominees below: American Housewife The Good Place The Great Indoors Kevin Can Wait Man With a Plan Son of Zorn Speechless Bull Conviction Designated Survivor The Exorcist Frequency Lethal Weapon MacGyver No Tomorrow Notorious Pitch Pure Genius This Is Us Timeless Fans pick the final five, which will be revealed on Dec.
|
|
Audience members could decide whom to follow, discovering perhaps that the father may be poisoning the young woman and causing her fits (played with Exorcist-like contortions by Rae Haas), or that the younger priest (an unnervingly dogmatic Brian Lore Evans) may be the most dangerous, with the absolute conviction of his belief in the devil's presence.
|
|
The movie spawned a whole genre of horror films, many of which have been released in the past few years ( The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Rite, The Last Exorcism, The Possession, Exorcist: The Beginning, The Last Exorcism Part 2) and has helped frame demonic possession as a real threat in the eyes of many believers.
|
|
As the first pair of girls try to free themselves from the curse, there's a lot of wacky fun involving a professor who's obsessed with seeing Sadako, even if it means he has to die, and a hotshot young exorcist who figures out a way to solve both girls' problems by pitting the supernatural forces against one another.
|
|
The real-life priest who starred in "The Exorcist" is now accused of repeatedly sexually abusing one of his students at a Jesuit High School in upstate NY. Father William J. O'Malley played Father Dyer in the 1973 classic horror flick, but before and after his Hollywood success ... he taught at McQuaid Jesuit High in Rochester.
|
|
We've sifted through the hours of footage shown off at this year's event to pick out the best trailers and teasers This year saw reimagined horror classics in Blair Witch and the Exorcist TV series, as well as visits to King Kong's home on Skull Island, our first look at the long-awaited American Gods, and details of a new Star Trek show.
|
|
But I'm old enough to remember the horrors Anita Hill was subjected to at the Clarence Thomas confirmation in 1991, and at least — at the very least — Christine Blasey Ford wasn't accused of erotomania by the Republicans, nor has Orrin Hatch (still on the committee!) waved around a copy of The Exorcist to accuse Ford of stealing one of her harassment stories from a book.
|
|
Last year, Fox should not have renewed The Exorcist and The Last Man on Earth; ABC should not have renewed Quantico and Designated Survivor; CBS should have killed Superior Donuts; and NBC should have canceled Taken, Shades of Blue, and (haters, get back!) Timeless (the fate of which for Season 3 we still don't know — possibly because NBC executives are scared of its fans like I am).
|
|
From Coinage: The 5 Most Expensive Movies of All Time The footage highlights the ensemble cast, including Tilda Swinton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Topher Grace, and Anthony Michael Hall, as well as familiar faces like RJ Cyler (Power Rangers), Will Poulter (The Maze Runner), Emory Cohen (Netflix's The O.A.), Alan Ruck (Fox's The Exorcist), Scoot McNairy (AMC's Halt and Catch Fire), and Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out).
|
|
It wraps both the family story and the demonic story in satisfying fashion, then shifts to a lengthy coda that brings closure to all the one-season characters, while leaving Tomas and his fellow exorcist Father Marcus (Ben Daniels, giving a performance that is perfectly hammy) in a place that suggests new directions for the series, should Tomas and Marcus have to reunite to defeat evil again.
|
|
But there are lots of threads that contribute to Satanic Panic, and they can be seen running through a handful of recent social and cultural events: the wave of clown scares throughout the country; the new TV series based on The Exorcist; the weekend release of Ouija 20113: Origin of Evil; and the October 23 death of fire-and-brimstone evangelical tract writer Jack Chick.
|
|
A Catholic exorcist said he plans to hold a mass for Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' MORE next weekend after a group of witches announced their plans to gather in Brooklyn to publicly hex him.
|
|
It goes all the way back to a 1920 Max Fleischer short, "Out of the Inkwell: Koko and the Haunted House," in which an animator and a janitor playing with a Ouija board seem to conjure ghosts from a Haunted House drawn for Koko the clown (Warning, this film contains imagery that is racist by today's standards.) The best was certainly "The Exorcist," in 1973.
|
|
It's true that not all horror films serve as mouthpieces for Christianity—there are even a few examples that condemn church leaders—but nearly any horror film that touches on the supernatural will either condemn the faithless ( The Conjuring, The Rite ), frame non-Jesus religions as spooky (The Wicker Man, The Exorcist, Sinister ), or claim that Biblical prophecy is coming to pass (Legion, The Omen).
|
|
Watch: Stonehenge Stoners & Worshipping Wizards: 12 Hours at the World's Biggest Pagan Party The film, which premiered in the US in June, comes out in the UK in time for Halloween, but don't expect a real-life take on The Exorcist—Di Giacomo's documentary aims for more fly-on-the-wall realism than gory thrills, and its horrors are more profoundly saddening than they are jump-in-your-seat scary.
|
|
Celebrity Family Feud (ABC) Chicago Fire (NBC) Chicago Med (NBC) Chicago P.D. (NBC) Code Black (CBS) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Criminal Minds (CBS) Dancing With the Stars (ABC) Designated Survivor (ABC) DC's Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) Elementary (CBS) Empire (Fox) The Exorcist (Fox) The Flash (The CW) Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) The Goldbergs (ABC) – The show has been renewed through the 2018-'19 TV season.
|
|
" She said she also faults Mr. Biden for letting the hearings get out of control — "The process went completely off track" — and for failing to restrain Republicans like former Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who brandished a copy of "The Exorcist" during the hearings, and former Senator John C. Danforth of Missouri, who while advising Judge Thomas enlisted the help of a forensic psychiatrist who suggested Ms. Hill suffered from "erotomania.
|
|
Takal was discussing all things horror, from "The Exorcist," which she considers the scariest movie ever ("I'm too scared to even say the name of the movie, or even refer to the thing that the movie is about"), to the first-look deal she recently signed with Blumhouse, to why she may not make the best horror-movie companion ("I'm the person in the theater you hear screaming like crazy").
|
|
In the less visually alluring but more contextually illuminating "Jheronimus Bosch: The Road to Heaven and Hell," the art historian and author Gary Schwartz explores Bosch's links to the institutions of his hometown — including a particularly fascinating look at the secret society the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Dear Lady, in which Bosch was a sworn brother, cleric and possible exorcist — and to the larger religious, literary, institutional and artistic touchstones that charged his wildly creative imagination.
|
|