The Exorcist
Four years before Star Wars, and two before Jaws, came the story of a single mother in Washington, D.C., fighting to save her little girl from the devil, and it created its own cultural phenomenon. People waited in line for six or seven hours to see it, fainted in the cinemas, became physically ill, wept, and had to leave.
Based on the bestselling book by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist was groundbreaking in many ways.
It exposed people around the world to the question of evil in a new and terrifying way. The inclusion of the Catholic church, and actual Jesuit priests, in the production…
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