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The Exorcist
Cast
Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller View AllCrew
William Friedkin (Director), William Peter Blatty (Screenplay) View All
Released: Jun. 19th, 1973
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Reviewed by
Captain Spaulding
Even though this was my first true viewing of the movie, I've seen so many scenes before--- the "pea-soup" scene, the "360-degree-head-turn" scene, "the power-of-Christ-compels-you" scene, as well as numerous other iconic scenes from the movie--- that it hampered my enjoyment of the movie.
pahaK
In all the movie there might be a few minutes worth of material that could have been dropped to make the film little tighter but otherwise it's nearly perfect.
Nostromo87
it won two Oscars, one for best adapted screenplay (Blatty), one for best sound (Knudson, Newman), and was the first horror movie ever to be nominated for best picture.
