The Exorcist follows Regan MacNeil ... broke down a difference that made the book better than the movie in one regard. Redditor Cautious-Promise-663 wrote: "After Father Merrin dies, Father ...

The audience reaction to it was so extreme, as author Nat Segaloff describes in his new book, “The Exorcist Legacy ... One critic, Stuart Byron, wrote in his review that “the film had made ...

Working together, writers, directors, and performers not only created “The Exorcist,” one of Hollywood ... Blatty decided it was time to turn to books. Years before, while a student at ...

William Peter Blatty, the Georgetown alumnus who wrote the novel on which “The Exorcist” was based ... Father Schroth was critical of the book too: “[Blatty] has brought forth—along ...

Anybody going to see “The Exorcist” would have to bring body and soul, and I wasn’t sure I had enough of either. “What if I just read the book?” I asked. I knew I was home free.

The first of his books, “An Exorcist Tells His Story,” came out in 1990 and was an instant bestseller, translated into 30 languages. That same year, Amorth, who named “The Exorcist” as his ...

According to the book "The Exorcist Legacy," Blatty wrote the novel after winning $10,000 on the Groucho Marx quiz show "You Bet Your Life" in 1961. The book and subsequent film "destroyed my ...