and yet none have matched the success of William Peter Blatty’s screenplay for the original film, says Segaloff. Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies ...

Think of all the possession films that “The Exorcist” spawned – some good, many bad, and arguably none quite as unsettling as the original 1973 horror classic. Thirteen years after his wife ...

“The Exorcist: Believer” was produced by Blumhouse with the intent of launching a new series of films, but it feels guided largely by affection and respect for Friedkin’s original rather ...

In 2013, USA TODAY spent the day with "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty in downtown Washington, where they discussed important sites and inspiration behind ...

His “Halloween” trilogy veered from good to horrible, despite the presence of original Final Girl Jamie Lee Curtis. “The Exorcist: Believer” is somewhere in-between, though a little ...

Bigger is not always better, as The Exorcist: Believer painfully proves — against all horror-movie logic, two demon-possessed girls are not better than just one. Far from honouring the original ...

It was announced early on that Ellen Burstyn, who played Chris MacNeil in the original “Exorcist,” would reprise her role in “The Exorcist: Believer,” which is the start of a brand new ...

As you’ll see in the trailer for the original Exorcist, that frightening phenomenon of seemingly burning an image of fright into the screen has been used yet again: The Exorcist: Believer haunts ...

“The Exorcist: Believer” was produced by Blumhouse with the intent of launching a new series of films, but it feels guided largely by affection and respect for Friedkin's original rather than ...

“The Exorcist: Believer” was produced by Blumhouse with the intent of launching a new series of films, but it feels guided largely by affection and respect for Friedkin’s original rather ...