The Exorcist

The Exorcist is an influential and successful 1973 horror film, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name.

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1973 - Horror film - William Peter Blatty - 1971 - Novel

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Directed by William Friedkin and starring Max von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin, Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras, Lee J. Cobb as Lieutenant William Kinderman and Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil. Regan's voice when possessed was dubbed by Mercedes McCambridge. The theme music is a part of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.

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William Friedkin - Max von Sydow - Ellen Burstyn - Jason Miller - Lee J. Cobb - Linda Blair - Regan MacNeil - Mercedes McCambridge - Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

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Blatty based his novel on a supposedly genuine exorcism from 1949, in Cottage City, Maryland. http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html Several area newspapers reported on a speech a minister gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a thirteen-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks.

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Exorcism - 1949 - Cottage City, Maryland - Parapsychology

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