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The Exorcist

June 2024

  • Film still of a man with cuts on his face looking off to the side in a room with blue lighting

    The Exorcism review – Russell Crowe v the Devil in cursed horror about a cursed horror

    The actor plays an actor struggling with a demonically bad film shoot in a well-made yet increasingly messy chiller

April 2024

  • Two possessed girls with scarred faces and creepy eyes stare up at the camera as they sit back to back, their heads resting on each others' shoulders.

    ‘Good and evil are at war, and the battlefield is the female body’: how Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump

    The devil and his minions crop up in a rash of new horror films, from Deliver Us and Immaculate to reboots of The Exorcist and The Omen. What does this tell us about our current anxieties?

December 2023

  • still from the exorcist of a man standing outside a house with yellow light spilling out into the night

    ‘Rarely does a film cause national hysteria’: The Exorcist turns 50

    In 1973, the demonic horror shocked and compelled the US, remaining a vital landmark for the genre in the decades since

October 2023

  • Ellen Burstyn and Leslie Odom Jr in The Exorcist: Believer.

    The Exorcist: Believer review – Ellen Burstyn returns for schlocky sequel

    Halloween rebooter David Gordon Green resurrects the cursed franchise for a gloopy new chapter which criminally wastes its returning scream queen

September 2023

  • What on earth has got into Regan? … Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

    The Exorcist review – Friedkin’s head-swivelling horror is still diabolically inspired

    The 50th anniversary extended director’s cut of the 1973 tale of teenage possession still shocks

August 2023

  • From left, director William Friedkin, Mark Kermode and Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty in 1998.

    My friend Billy: Mark Kermode remembers The Exorcist director William Friedkin

    The Observer film critic on his hero, who died last week aged 87, a man dedicated to telling stories his way and who had a wicked sense of humour
  • William Friedkin on the set of The Exorcist, 1973.

    William Friedkin obituary

    American director behind two of the great film cult classics of the 1970s: The French Connection and The Exorcist

    • William Friedkin created unforgettable horror and pleasure with equal brilliance

      Peter Bradshaw

    • William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, dies at 87

    • The Exorcist and French Connection director William Friedkin – a life in pictures

May 2022

  • Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review.

    You ask the questions
    Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

    Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

December 2021

  • The Exorcist film poster.

    Boy whose case inspired The Exorcist is named by US magazine

    The boy, previously known as Roland Doe, underwent exorcisms in Cottage City, Maryland, and St Louis, Missouri, in 1949

October 2021

  • whats on film

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Harder They Fall to Widows: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jonathan Majors squares up against Idris Elba in a fun, gritty western, and Viola Davis shines in Steve McQueen’s heist caper

July 2021

  • Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist. The new films are described as ‘a compelling continuation’ of the 1973 original.

    The Exorcist: Ellen Burstyn to reprise role in new $400m trilogy

    Universal has picked up the rights to an ambitious new continuation of the Oscar-winning horror

January 2021

  • Aiming to beat Christopher Plummer … Burstyn, who hopes to be nominated for Pieces of a Woman.

    Cinema legend Ellen Burstyn: 'It was never my intention to be a movie star'

    As she prepares to smash an Oscar record, the great actor talks about drawing on her own suffering, missing her violent mother – and surviving the Hollywood ‘hamburger machine’

March 2020

  • Krzysztof Penderecki at the Kraków opera house in 2008.

    Influential composer Krzysztof Penderecki dies aged 86

  • Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal

    Max von Sydow: an aristocrat of cinema who made me weep

  • Max von Sydow in 2011.

    Max von Sydow, star of The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal, dies aged 90

  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist

    The Seventh Seal to The Exorcist: Max von Sydow – a life in pictures

February 2019

  • The Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

    Nine films that should have won best picture at the Oscars

    The Academy’s biggest oversights and most controversial choices from nine decades of ceremonies
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