The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 122 minuten / 132 minuten (director's cut)
Alternative titles: De Duivel-uitbanner / William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist / The Exorcist: The Version You Haven't Seen Yet
Country:
United States
Directed by: William Friedkin
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb
IMDb score:
8,1 (476.455)
Releasedate: 26 December 1973
The Exorcist plot
"Something almost beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this house… and a man has been sent for as a last resort. This man is The Exorcist."
During excavations in northern Iraq, archaeologist priest Merrin finds a devil statue. Just at the same time, in Georgetown, actress Chris McNeil is startled by strange noises in the room of her twelve-year-old daughter Regan. The girl is shaking on the bed and can't control the spasms. Chris and Regan don't know what horrible things await them.
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Actors and actresses
Chris MacNeil
Regan MacNeil
Father Damien Karras
Father Lankester Merrin
Lt. Bill Kinderman
Father Joseph Kevin Dyer
Sharon Spencer
Burke Dennings
Dr. Klein
Dr. Barringer
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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The golden rule of a good horror movie: give the audience the time and opportunity to get to know and sympathize with the character before you endanger it, otherwise it's just beef cattle that the viewer doesn't care about, and then the film dies. It appears from Rosemary's baby[/i] that Roman Polanski knew that rule like no other, and William Friedkin is also making it clear here that he is well organized in that regard. In every respect, by the way: the acting is excellent (even by Lee J. Cobb, who can shine like few others), the viewer is not "taken out of the film" by too emphatic music (the exorcism itself takes place in deafening silence) , and rarely has an actor been more suited to his role than Max von Sydow, whose authoritative aura eschews any sort of ironic distance. A slow intro with a few nasty shocks, then a huge chunk of misery with a single moment of rest, and for those who are sensitive to it, the film still works – and how. Good looking.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
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