By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large It’s hardly unusual for Exorcist films to leave critics unimpressed. The franchise may have launched with William Friedkin’s acclaimed 1973 classic ...

There are exorcism movies and Exorcist movies ... The seance goes horribly wrong, we’re told, but not really shown. The girls pop up three days later, covered with cuts and acting strangely ...

The film has had an ongoing impact on pop culture and contemporary ... who perform the film's dramatic exorcism. "They're not perfect. They're completely messed up, just as many people on the ...

Colin told the reporter that he was finding the exorcism ritual unusually hard, and had given up on confronting the ghost of Mackenzie and was instead trying to free the trapped souls of 200 or so ...

The Exorcist: Believer has a great core group of ... When the horror starts really ramping up, I’m the person in the audience who wears a cartoonish grin of delight while everyone else in ...

But if it hopes to even capture a fraction of the audience the original scared up back in 1973, it needs to return to the source. It’s maybe a little cliche to say The Exorcist is the scariest ...

Halloween is like Christmas for fans of scary, cut-’em-up-with-a-cleaver movies – but ... s making a killing at the box office. “The Exorcist,” rereleased six weeks ago to herald the ...

Filmmakers repeatedly try to copy it, but that’s not the same as producing a bold and groundbreaking original work, and when they do, they try to speed up ... movie as scary as The Exorcist.