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Universal Will Release New Exorcist Trilogy
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Halloween, The Exorcist, and the Rise of the Requel
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The Exorcist sparked widespread controversy upon its release in 1973 in the US and 1974 in the UK. © 1973 - Warner Bros. Entertainment IT remains one of the most iconic films of its genre that terrified viewers able to see it amid raging controversy that saw it banned from some cinema screens, accused of causing viewers to vomit and suffer heart attacks. Now, nearly 50 years on, The Exorcist is returning.
It scared the wits out of viewers in the 1970s? Released in 1973, the movie was based on a book by American author William Peter Blatty, telling the tale of a young girl (played by actress Linda Blair) who becomes possessed by a demon, causing her mother (played by Ellen Burstyn) to enlist two priests to try and save her from the devil by performing an exorcism.
Leslie Odom Jr To Star In Exorcist Trilogy
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Things didn t exactly end well the first time around. Audiences emerged from cinemas ashen-faced, some people even fainted or vomited. Others insisted they had wanted to leave but had been too scared to move. Watching The Exorcist, the quintessential horror film, was blamed for heart attacks and miscarriages.
In Britain, local councils banned screenings, prompting travel companies to offer Exorcist bus trips to cinemas where it was showing. In the U.S., some movie theatres reportedly proffered sick bags and offered paramedic assistance.
This was all part of the hype that made the 1973 chiller into a global box-office sensation: The biggest thing to hit the industry since Mary Pickford, popcorn, pornography and The Godfather, as a New York Times critic put it at the time.