Tag Archives: The Exorcist

Much-loved and much-discussed, The Exorcist (1973) undeniably remains one of cinema’s most treasured films. Not only one of the most successful motion pictures ever made and a classic of the horror genre, this demonic chiller also helped usher in a ...

We love horror and we love getting scared. We read scary books, watch horror films and devour gruesome TV series. Occasionally, however, horror comes to life on stage, to terrify us in a different way, when darkness falls in an ...

Episode IV “CAN YOU SURVIVE…?” The Sound Of Fear moves into the realm of shock horror, with music scoring zombies and chainsaws sharing space with possessed children and a movement of films centred around the offspring of the devil. Episode ...

Big feuds in horror arrived on the big screen most famously in 2003’s Freddy Versus Jason. Now thirteen years later, the concept is coming back with the much anticipated film, Sadako Vs Kayako which was released in June 2016 in ...

When the Church of Satan was established by Anton LaVey in 1966, he declared it “Annos Satanas,’’ – the first year in the “Age of Satan.’’  A man of great charisma and considerable celebrity status already, it wasn’t long before ...

In 1971, Hammer Films, who had jolted the horror genre back to life in Britain fourteen years earlier with The Curse of Frankenstein (dir. Terence Fisher, 1957), were still prolific, producing (some might say with dangerous complacency) traditional, Gothic costume ...

As a writer, William Peter Blatty’s most well-known novel is The Exorcist, released in 1971.  He would also win an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay of the novel two years later, and that film remains, to this day, the ...

For years William Friedkin maintained that, despite all other opinions, his 1973 film The Exorcist was not a horror movie. “I thought it was a film about the mystery of faith … but I didn’t set out to make a ...

After the release and subsequent success of films like Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, horror cinema spawned a new obsession: religion. The ’70s witnessed the release of a slew of religious-themed horror films, many of which came ...

Ambiguity in horror fiction is nothing new. It’s been notably employed by Henry James in The Turn of the Screw, and Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House. Those genre giants likely influenced author Paul Tremblay. His A Head ...