The Exorcist. The film remains, in my opinion, the most terrifying horror tale ever featured on the silver screen. William Friedkin‘s adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s best-seller about demonic possession and a crisis of faith (among many other things) created…
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William Friedkin and “The Exorcist”
MovieFanFare welcomes our newest guest blogger, Peter Bell, who shares his thoughts on why The Exorcist is such an enduring classic: “I have my finger on the pulse of America.” These were the words of William Friedkin, Director, upon the…
Read more →R.I.P. “The Exorcist” Writer William Peter Blatty
Best known for creating The Exorcist (for which he wrote the original novel as well as the screenplay for William Friedkin‘s film adaptation), writer and director William Peter Blatty has died at the age of 89. Although primarily known as…
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