What’s obvious is that unlike Green’s Halloween, this Exorcist really isn’t a spiritual sequel or reboot in the sense of that movie, which, of course, fans could easily smell this weekend, giving ...

(SPOILERS) The story of The Exorcist: Believer side-steps the issue of Regan by explaining that she and Chris have become estranged ever since the latter wrote a memoir about their experience with ...

The Exorcist’s director, William Friedkin, who died in August at the age of 87, was well aware of the horror movie’s lasting cultural impact years following its theatrical debut in 1973. Like several ...

Films about possession are a dime a dozen nowadays, and some have been moderately successful at the box office. So it doesn’t surprise me that director David Gordon Green and the Blumhouse production ...

The sequels — or, in two cases, prequels — to “The Exorcist” have all been unqualified turkeys. There is now a movement at hand to declare that John Boorman’s crackpot insect-swarm fantasia “Exorcist ...

The saga of American movies in the 1970s is now a mythology. In the first half of the decade, the movies that emerged from the New Hollywood were unprecedented in their realism, their immersion in the ...

Kudos to Jason Riley for his thoughtful concerns about glorifying gangsta rap (“A Sanitized ‘French Connection’ vs. the Hip-Hop Gutter,” Upward Mobility, Aug. 16). But did he see a different version ...