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![]() ![]() Father Damien Karras is himself undergoing a personal crisis of faith at the moment, but decides to help Chris and has a few personal meetings with the child. Young Regan’s condition rapidly deteriorates as she refuses to eat or sleep, becoming increasingly wild and aggressive.Īfter a plethora of unsuccessful treatments, her mother turns to a local Jesuit priest in a desperate plea for help. What’s worse, strange occurrences have begun plaguing their house since, events with absolutely no rational explanation. Meanwhile, back in Georgetown the young Regan MacNeil, daughter to a famous actress (Chris MacNeil), has fallen inexplicably ill. We see how an elderly Jesuit priest, Father Lankester Merrin, comes across a small statue of the demon Pazuzu while leading an archaeological dig, an omen of the dark fight ahead. ![]() The story begins by taking us to Iraq, which in 1971 (when the book was released), was still viewed as an exotic land of faraway mysteries. ![]() Whereas today most horror writers will go for cheap shock value, we can thankfully always take refuge in the novels of the past, and few show the depths to which the genre can aspire to better than The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. In the last few decades horror stories and movies have become so commonplace they have lost much of the charm and meaning which their scarce few ancestors used to bear. William Peter Blatty Establishes Religious Horror ![]()
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