The audience reaction to it was so extreme, as author Nat Segaloff describes in his new book, “The Exorcist Legacy ... and he even played audio tapes of screams emanating from actual exorcisms.

Anybody going to see “The Exorcist” would have to bring body and soul, and I wasn’t sure I had enough of either. “What if I just read the book?” I asked. I knew I was home free.

As Nat Segaloff explains in his new book “The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear,” the movie would go on to spawn sequels, prequels, knockoffs, and even a TV series, which ran from 2016 to 2017 ...

Friedkin also revealed he took the "sound of the demonically possessed boy" from this tape and mixed it into ... for comedy Before writing the book "The Exorcist," and then the screenplay, William ...

The story was adapted in the 2016 British film The Exorcism Of Anna Ecklund, which we doubt even the Ritual filmmakers saw. Like Exorcist, Pacino and Stevens play two priests on opposite sides of the ...

Working together, writers, directors, and performers not only created “The Exorcist,” one of Hollywood ... Blatty decided it was time to turn to books. Years before, while a student at ...

All these years later, this book is kind of my exorcism from The Exorcist. Certainly not every film’s anniversary still matters fifty years later. What is it about The Exorcist that has us still ...

“[She] became a bit of an expert. Not an exorcist herself, but renowned for the books that she’s written.” Linda Blair played the possessed daughter in the original movie, with The Exorcist ...

Williams also explores her own grief after losing her mother to cancer, and how the heart of “The Exorcist” is about the strong bond between mother and daughter. Her new book is out Oct. 20.