Based on the eponymous novel by William Peter Blatty, 1973's The Exorcist delivered the most frightening cinematic ...

Far from a knock-off, 'The Ritual' aims to document history. 'The Exorcist,' on the other hand, was pure entertainment.

The 2025 best occult blockbuster 'The Exorcist's Book' (directed by Kim Dong-cheol, original creator Lee Woo-hyeok, produced by Locus, distributed by SHOWBOX) has surpassed 300,000 viewers on its ...

all were based on massively successful books. So yes, Hollywood has always leaned into known IP, folks. It isn’t anything new. The other thing that made The Exorcist even possible was the ...

The Exorcist is getting a new coat of pea soup from horror maestro Mike Flanagan. Recent franchise revival, The Exorcist: Believer, proved to be a massive disappointment for fans of William ...

He eventually took the lead in the case and would become the inspiration for the fictional Father Lankester Merrin of The Exorcist book and movie. Bowdern came with Bishop to the Bel-Nor house the ...

Entertain them? Piss them off? We think the information in this book is interesting and fun to read, but there’s also a point to it. “The Exorcist Effect” has contributed to some destructive outcomes ...

The third chapter in the franchise, "The Exorcist III," was directed by William Peter Blatty, the author of the book that the original movie was based on. It mainly follows Lieutenant Kinderman ...

I certainly had no idea in 2012 when I hosted a book publishing webinar for Georgetown University alumni. The Exorcist author and screenplay writer William Peter Blatty, class of 1950, lurked ...

“Exorcist: Believer” follows a pair of girls ... “I use a lot of medical and pathology books for what we do,” Nelson says. “A lot of medical references and news footage and some things ...

According to the movie’s co-producer, Richard Lederer, in the book The Exorcist: Out of the Shadows by Bob McCabe about the making of the franchise, the plan was to make a low-budget rehash of ...

That ambivalence—a mixture of fascination and revulsion—was felt by much of the movie-going public in 1973, for reasons the author considers in the book’s more historical and analytic pages. Putting ...