The Exorcist III might've done better financially if director William Peter Blatty had gotten his way when it came to a specific aspect of the horror sequel.

The original Exorcist novel sold poorly upon release, only hitting it big after William Peter Blatty's (the author's) ...

Doe’s story was adapted into the 1971 book “The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty, which was then made into the 1973 movie starring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

The novel follows Lt. Kinderman, a side character from the original Exorcist novel, who is investigating the deaths. Kinderman begins to link all of these killings slowly back to the exorcism of ...

William Peter Blatty released The Exorcist novel in 1971, and the narrative follows the same characters and circumstances made famous in the 1973 film adaptation by William Friedkin. 11-year-old ...

And more tidbits from Nat Segaloff’s ‘The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear,’ which charts the afterlife of the scariest movie ever made.

It’s hard to overstate how shocking the original “The Exorcist” was in 1973, based on William Peter Blatty’s novel about demonic possession, changing, among other things, how a lot of ...

Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies of all time. The screenplay was based on Blatty’s bestselling novel, “The Exorcist,” published in 1971.

What’s really horrifying, and this is true of both the book and the film, is the unsettling feeling that this could happen to you. And 50 years after its release, it still feels that way.

A half-century after the original helped rewrite the rules of horror and launched a thousand imitators, “The Exorcist: Believer” tries picking up that mantle, with the lure of 90-year-old ...