The film involved a lot of activities that would not fly on Walton's Mountain.

By today’s standards, the effects in the original The Exorcist aren’t particularly violent. The most disturbing scenes involve Linda Blair vomiting pea soup and spinning her head 180 ...

This review was updated on September 21, 2024 Voted the greatest horror movie ever by Time Out’s expert panel of filmmakers, horror icons and enthusiasts, William Friedkin’s full-throttle ...

According to this account, the pea-soup vomit shown in the movie version of ''The Exorcist'' was not too far-fetched. Often, according to the priests, he had to be forcibly restrained.

Few horror films have permeated popular culture to the extent that The Exorcist has. The aforementioned and infamous pea soup scene, the head-turning moment, and the eerie theme music have become ...

My InsiderJust the mention of the film is likely to conjure images of young Regan MacNeil, played by a then-14-year-old Linda Blair, projectile-vomiting pea soup, crab-walking down the stairs, or ...

Written by William Peter Blatty, adapted from his own novel, and directed by William Friedkin, the film about a young girl possessed by a demon had audiences swooning and tossing up their pea soup.

I have long maintained that “The Exorcist” is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, and I like to check in with it every now and then to make sure that hasn’t changed.

Of course “The Exorcist” is a horror movie, but, among other things, it’s about fraught female lives and deep emotions, and in rewatching it, I was struck by how much it shares with the ...