The Exorcist details
Movie Details:
- Director: William Friedkin
- Produced By: Warner Brothers
- Year: 1973
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Horror
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn, Lee J. Cobb, Jack MacGowran, Peter Masterson, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Actress (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1973), Best Adapted Screenplay (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1973), Best Art Direction (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1973), Full Awards
Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan proves quite a handful for her actress-mother, Chris MacNeil (played by Ellen Burstyn, although Blatty reportedly based the character on his next-door neighbor Shirley MacLaine). When Regan gets completely out of hand, Chris calls in young priest Father Karras (Jason Miller), who becomes convinced that the girl is possessed by the Devil and that they must call in an exorcist: namely, Father Merrin (Max von Sydow). His foe proves to be no run-of-the-mill demon, and both the priest and the girl suffer numerous horrors during their struggles. The Exorcist received a theatrical rerelease in 2000, in a special edition that added 11 minutes of footage trimmed from the film's original release and digitally enhanced Chris Newman's Oscar-winning sound work. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- actor
- Catholicism
- exorcism
- girl
- demonic-possession
- priest
- evil-possession
Themes:
- Crisis of Conscience
- Demonic Possession
