Only this time William Peter Blatty’s readers are in for a different surprise. Unlike The Exorcist, this isn’t a novel set in a sinister Georgetown. It’s a work of nonfiction, the author insists, that ...

The filmmaker's planned project, which follows David Gordon Green's 'The Exorcist: Believer' underperforming in 2023, has ...

The Exorcist author and screenplay writer William Peter Blatty, class of 1950, lurked undetected in the audience of 100-plus people, and he followed up afterward. He hoped to publish his master's ...

The new movie The Ritual is based on a 1928 exorcism in Iowa. Catholic priest Theophilus Riesinger performed the ritual on ...

Originally scheduled for March 13, 2026, Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist will unfortunately be delayed, as confirmed by the ...

Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies of all time. The screenplay was based on Blatty’s bestselling novel, “The Exorcist,” published in 1971.

One person raved: "The best horror series I ever watched. I truly loved the series and can't stop watching." "Gripping, ...

In 2013, USA TODAY spent the day with "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty in downtown Washington, where they discussed important sites and inspiration behind ...

Inspired by an incident that unfolded in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., that Blatty had read about while in college, "The Exorcist" was published in 1971, followed two years later by the film of ...

"The Ritual," with Al Pacino, tells the tale of a real exorcism in Iowa in 1928. The possessed woman, and the priest saving ...

Not since Paul Schrader’s ill-starred “Exorcist” entry “Dominion” in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite ...