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The Exorcist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Exorcist is regarded by some critics as being one of the best and most effective horror films; admirers say the film balances a stellar script, gruesome effects, and outstanding performances. John Boorman's poorly-received Exorcist II: The Heretic was released in 1977. A minor character in The Exorcist, an astronaut named Lt. Cutshaw (he actually wasn't given a name in the first film, though Blatty has stated that they are the same person) is the lead character. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Exorcist   (2154 words)

The Exorcist III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Exorcist III is a 1990 horror movie directed by William Peter Blatty and based on Blatty's novel Legion. He was forced by Morgan Creek to call the film "Exorcist III: Legion" as well as write and shoot a new scene where an exorcism takes place in the mental ward. The movie is a sequel to The Exorcist and ignores the events of Exorcist II: The Heretic. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Exorcist_III   (2068 words)

Exorcist III Exorcist III is a cerebral horror that relies on the performer's descriptions and expressions for its chills. Exorcist III, Santa Sangre, and Jacob's Ladder were the quality horror films of the time (Dario Argento's half of Two Evil Eyes with Harvey Keitel is so good, but the less said about George Romero's half the better). He had enough disagreements with Friedkin during The Exorcist (the "director's cut" is far closer to the producers cut, though Blatty was most fond of Friedkin's original 140 minute cut) then saw his characters butchered by Boorman, so he decided to direct his own novels in order for them to remain entirely his. www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/exorcist3.html   (3554 words)

The Exorcist (1973) However, the Exorcist is still one of the most ambition horror films ever made, because (are you ready for this?) – the Exorcist dares to tell a story. I remember the Exorcist, not because I thought it was the "scariest movie ever made", rather because of the wonderful craftsmanship, the fact that it dared to tell a story, and it defied my expectations. The original ambition of The Exorcist was to scare the world with imagery and concepts never before seen in cinema. www.imdb.com /title/tt0070047   (1153 words)

The Exorcist Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com Before The Exorcist was a movie, it was a novel based on the real life exorcism of an adolescent boy that took place between January and April of 1949. The Exorcist is a influential and successful 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin and starring Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb and Linda Blair (voice by Mercedes McCambridge). There were two poorly-received sequels and innumerable rip-offs (the popularity of The Exorcist inspired another Satanically-themed franchise, The Omen). www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_exorcist.html   (502 words)

The Exorcist & Exorcism Rome's exorcist, the Rev. Gabriele Amorth, was quoted in the article as saying, "She began screaming incomprehensibly and speaking in a 'cavernous voice.'" The woman, "a 19-year-old with a history of possession," was not affected by the Pope's prayers. The Christian evangelist and self-described exorcist from Denver, Colo., said he hasn't seen any spinning heads or spitting of green pea soup as he endeavors to rid tormented souls of what he believes are their demons. Keene said he remembers being scared by "The Exorcist" when, in his early teens, he saw it on video for the first time, but said while it was "vulgar and disgusting in places... www.wintersteel.com /The_Exorcist.html   (9015 words)

The DVD Journal Quick Reviews: Exorcist III Exorcist novelist and screenwriter William Peter Blatty ignored Boorman's film completely when he followed up his tale of demonic possession with the 1983 novel Legion — in fact, the only reference to Boorman's awful sequel in Legion's screen adaptation is the misleading title. Exorcist III starts out like a traditional police mystery, with George C. Scott as philosophical Det. Kinderman, who notices connections in a recent series of brutal murders to a couple of his earlier cases — including the possession of young Regan MacNeil some 15 years earlier. Although John Boorman directed a disastrous 1978 film bearing the title Exorcist II: The Heretic, there is only one genuine sequel to the original horror masterpiece. www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/e/exorcist3.q.shtml   (263 words)

Reel Horror Forum - The Exorcist III I know The Exorcist III is a slow mover but it rewards the patient viewer with an intelligent commentary on life, death, religion and the nature of good and evil: something not especially common in a horror flick. Although The Exorcist III was widely slated upon its release, there are just as many supporters of the film who class it as the “true sequel” to The Exorcist. It is a rare occurrence that a horror film of such intelligence and artistic merit is released, and for The Exorcist III to be consistently overlooked is tantamount to criminal negligence. www.reelhorror.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-5096.html   (1260 words)

dOc DVD Review: Exorcist III (1990) Exorcist III is based on William Peter Blatty's Legion, the follow-up to his original Exorcist novel. While the original Exorcist of 1973 is an undisputed horror classic, this 1990 sequel handily accomplishes the difficult task of living up to the original. Exorcist III is easily one of the best horror films in recent memory. www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=22   (1040 words)

The Exorcist Files Perhaps the most horrifying feature of "The Exorcist" is its soundtrack: director Friedkin and his experts used the cries of pigs being driven to slaughter to produce the scream of the Demon when it is exorcised from the 12-year old Regan's body. Father Ryan, who became a minor celebrity after he served as consultant for the movie "The Exorcist," in which he also has a bit part, was described by the university newspaper as "the single most popular administrator on campus." He has also appeared on television and participated in debates on the subject. The Exorcist has created box-office records and set people talking throughout America, though why this should be so is a matter I would rather leave for discussion with your parish priest or neighbourhood sociologist. www.tabula-rasa.info /Horror/ExorcistFiles.html   (2430 words)

The Exorcist (1973) The Exorcist was notable for being one of the biggest box-office successes (and one of the first 'blockbusters' in film history, predating Jaws (1975)), and surpassed The Godfather (1972) as the biggest money-maker of its time. The Exorcist (1973) is the sensational, shocking horror story about devil possession and the subsequent exorcism of the demonic spirits from a young, innocent girl (of a divorced family). The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) -- In the early fall of 2000, the film was recut and released in a 12-minute longer version (and retitled as The Version You've Never Seen), with an enhanced digital surround-sound, six-track soundtrack - as a writer-producer's cut. www.filmsite.org /exor.html   (1891 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Exorcist The change is due to the facts that the catechumenate, with which the office of exorcist was chiefly connected, has ceased, that infant baptism has become the rule, and that with the spread of Christianity and the disappearance of paganism, demonic power has been curtailed, and cases of obsession have become much rarer. In the Eastern Church, a specially ordained order of exorcists (or of acolytes, or door-keepers) has never been established but in the Western Church, these three minor orders with that of lectors as a fourth) were instituted shortly before the middle of the third century. Pope Cornelius (261-252) mentions in his letter to Fabius that there were then in the Roman Church forty-two acolytes, and fifty-two exorcists, readers, and door-keepers (Eusebius, Hist. www.newadvent.org /cathen/05711a.htm   (882 words)

Movie Info for The Exorcist III on MSN Movies Ignoring the events of John Boorman's disappointing Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), the film moves ahead 15 years from the end of the original, when Georgetown is being plagued by occult murders bearing signs of the long-dead Gemini Killer, James Venamon (Brad Dourif). The Exorcist III is heavy on dialogue, but contains some fine performances and some chilling moments, particularly the haunting opening in a Georgetown church. Kinderman slowly comes to accept that the patient is Venamon and enlists an exorcist, Father Morning (Nicol Williamson), to free Karras' soul and stop the murders. entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=75687   (306 words)

The Exorcist III As I stated before, "The Exorcist III" is not "The Exorcist." While "The Exorcist" was all about visceral shocks, haunted house scares, and projectile vomiting, "The Exorcist III" is all about mood. As someone who has never been a huge fan of "The Exorcist" (I've always thought that it was a little hokey), I didn't expect much from "The Exorcist III." What I found was a film that isn't afraid to take chances. Probably the most noticeable aspect of "The Exorcist III" is Blatty's style, as it relates to pacing, editing, and shooting. www.dvdreview.com /html/the_exorcist_iii.shtml   (1371 words)

‘The Exorcist III’ (R) Where "The Exorcist" was high camp and creepily earnest, its latest descendant is all comic relief and botched bogy-bogy-bogy. For those of you who stay up nights listening to the house settle, William Peter Blatty scares up more horrific doings in "The Exorcist III," the "official sequel" to the 1973 tale of demonic possession. "The Exorcist III" is rated R for profane language, gruesome effects and graphic descriptions. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theexorcistiiirkempley_a0a096.htm   (552 words)

Exorcist Exorcist: The Beginning opens with a punch, as a bloodied priest stumbles through the desert with his crucifix dangling from his clinched fist. It was justly started in 1973 with the original Exorcist, considered by millions, including myself, to be one of the greatest horror achievements ever filmed. A prequel to the one that started it all, and let’s hope after this, the door to the Exorcist franchise will be finally sealed shut — for good. www.horrortalk.com /reviews/ExorcistTB/ExorcistIV.htm   (1554 words)

Exorcist 3 Secondly, the exorcism scene at the end was added at the insistence of the distributors, who claimed the film couldn't be marketed as an Exorcist sequel, unless it contained an exorcism. Praised by critics as being the first true sequel to The Exorcist, it (thankfully) ignores the disastrous part 2, and fans of the first film will undoubtedly enjoy it. It has nothing to do with the official Exorcist series and fortunately (for them), the distributers of the official Exorcist 3 never sued. www.angelfire.com /darkside/realmofhorror/exorcist3.htm   (805 words)

Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'Exorcist - The Beginning' Leaves Previous Sequels Behind One of the enduring successes of the original "Exorcist" film was that it relied heavily on a slow-building psychological approach to the horror and minimized the visceral nature of Satanic possession, something that more recent films such as "End of Days" and "Stigmata" did with expensive computer-generated effects. Given the fact that the original 1973 fright flick was re-released two years ago and made $40 million stateside and had equally impressive results overseas, it didn't take long for the bean counters at Warner Bros. to decide that a fourth movie could be a lucrative venture. Schrader is looking to return to the style of the original film by minimizing the CGI effects (reportedly utilizing only about 200 shots including sky and wire replacements) and focusing heavily on Father Merrin, turning this into a character-based, thinking man's horror film rather than a monster movie. movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---16401,00.html   (854 words)

the exorcist III The changes didn't help; Exorcist III was largely ignored by audiences and sneered at by critics -- though it has built a cult audience on video in the years since, and has gained a shinier reputation among web critics, some of whom go so far as to insist that it's better than the original film. It's too bad that Blatty was so hamstrung by the demands of delivering "an Exorcist sequel" (one hears that Paul Schrader faced similar trials with his Exorcist movie -- he was replaced by Renny Harlin), because he remains a superb director. There are two major things wrong with The Exorcist III and the way it was marketed (there's a third, which I'll get to at the end): www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/exorcist3.html   (841 words)

The Exorcist (1973) The Exorcist was notable for being one of the biggest box-office successes (and one of the first 'blockbusters' in film history, predating Jaws (1975)), and surpassed The Godfather (1972) as the biggest money-maker of its time. The Exorcist (1973) is the sensational, shocking horror story about devil possession and the subsequent exorcism of the demonic spirits from a young, innocent girl (of a divorced family). The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) -- In the early fall of 2000, the film was recut and released in a 12-minute longer version (and retitled as The Version You've Never Seen), with an enhanced digital surround-sound, six-track soundtrack - as a writer-producer's cut. www.filmsite.org /exor.html   (1891 words)

The Exorcist She is of the firm belief her daughter is possessed by a demon and wants an exorcist to drive out the evil soul. Clearly it was Friedkin’s impulsive temper that made “The Exorcist” the strong traumatic film it is- one that leaves an imprint on every viewer and one that allows people to explore their own fears. To me, “The Exorcist” is still the scariest film ever made and it never fails to raise the hair on the back of my neck. www.dvdreview.com /html/the_exorcist.html   (2113 words)

Review: The Exorcist The Exorcist's strength is that it places character development on the same level as the horror elements, but it is not a ground-breaking motion picture. Ironically, the strength of Blair's performance in The Exorcist was to define her entire career, which took the low road and spiraled into exploitation fare. In the case of The Exorcist, the spoils of victory are not the world or the universe, but Regan's mind and body. movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/e/exorcist.html   (1322 words)

New Page 4 First of all had The Exorcist not caused the moral panic it did back in 1974 I do not believe that the popularity of the movie in the UK would be what it is... By the time I had conducted an extensive research into The Exorcist, it was now time for the film to get it's theatrical re-release in the UK (appropriately released on October 30th). To realistically and justifiably sum up my views and emotions after viewing The Exorcist for the first time I would have to say that the experience was (to borrow from the tag line) 'Something beyond comprehension'. exorcist.20m.com   (1565 words)

The Exorcist - Monstervision host segments The Exorcist was adapted for the screen by its author, William Peter Blatty, who in turn had based his original novel on a strange incident which took place in Mt. Rainer, Maryland, in 1949. Not only was The Exorcist plagued by production problems and behind-the-scenes power struggles, but it also ignited a heated debate among the religious community, film critics and audiences who were alternately repulsed and fascinated by its disturbing tale of good versus evil. Needless to say, The Exorcist was a smashing success and unfortunately inspired numerous imitations, which glutted the horror market for years. www.angelfire.com /mn/nn/Exorcist.html   (4438 words)

CaptainHowdy.com The Exorcist Fansite Exorcist fans know the story, but here's the short 'n curlys for those of you new to The Exorcist -- In the late 40's, while at school, William Peter Blatty heard about a boy in his region who had supposedly been possessed by the devil and required an exorcism. If you have been hanging around The Exorcist Fan Forums, you may have read about a fan made Exorcist III: Legion trailer that appeared on the now-dead FanMadeTrailers.com. Look out for new features to The Exorcist Fansite in the near future, including rare footage and images submitted by visitors. www.captainhowdy.com   (781 words)

Part I - The Haunted Boy: the Inspiration for the Exorcist Blatty prints a censored version of the exorcist’s response, revealing for the first time the existence of a diary kept by an attending priest that recorded the daily events of the ongoing exorcism. Blatty decided to ease the exorcist’s anxiety and change the lead character from a 14-year-old boy to that of a 12-year-old girl. Without exception, the old-timers insisted that although their beloved town was given credit for being the home of the Exorcist story, the boy in question never actually lived in Mount Rainier. www.strangemag.com /exorcistpage1.html   (2451 words)

The Exorcist-1973 The Exorcist has only just been released in Britain after being banned for 25 years, by anally retentive censors. The Exorcist is the most famous film in the horror genre. The Exorcist set burned down delaying the filming for around six weeks. website.lineone.net /~djinn1/nicolas/exorcist.htm   (467 words)

Flipside Movie Emporium: The Exorcist Movie Review Beyond the knee-jerk shocks (which are enough to cause heart conditions), The Exorcist resonates far more deeply than most horror films because serious thought has been given to the theological implications of it all. Like all great movies, The Exorcist grows better with age, and it can never really be experienced from the relative safety of the living room couch. (As a footnote, those interested in the difference between this version and the original may want to take a look at The Fear of God, a documentary on the making of The Exorcist. www.flipsidemovies.com /exorcist.html   (863 words)

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