Fifty years ago, Ellen Burstyn played the mother of the possessed girl in The Exorcist—a character she has reprised in a sequel, The Exorcist: Believer, now in theaters. Publicity coverage has been ...
The devil made them do it. Working together, writers, directors, and performers not only created “The Exorcist,” one of Hollywood’s most frightening films, they started a franchise. And it survived ...
On Aug. 20, 1949, the Washington Post ran a front-page story with a rather shocking headline: “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” The story below went on to report, in dry, ...