Film The Exorcist is adapted from a true story and events inspired by the expulsion of the lives of the process took place in 1949 for a 14 - year - old boy
The story of The Exorcist revolves around the mother (Allen Burstein) and the daughter (Reagan),
where the mother feels a change in the behavior and reactions of her daughter and takes her to psychiatrists who fail to diagnose her cases there. The mother is forced to go to a priest who tells her that her daughter has been demonically touched and she must search About an exorcist to help her daughter.
The Exorcist review
You may feel bored with the beginning of the movie as it describes to you what happened with the little girl gradually, but soon events happen and the girl begins to change and the mother begins to search for a solution for her only daughter until it comes to trying to expel the evil spirit from the girl.
Scenario:
The scenario of the movie is wonderful, especially since the director quoted some scenes and words from what happened in the process of expelling the truth, and the film won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and best audio recording.
Photography :
The selection of the location for filming at the beginning of the film was very successful, as the beginning of the film was in one of the ancient cities in northern Iraq, where there is one of the statues representing the goddesses of evil, where this statue is obtained in the film and from it the events begin.
The house in which the exorcism took place was built specifically for the film. It burned down on one of the shooting nights without any justification and was rebuilt in order to complete the filming of the film.
The house burning incident was not the only one, as many of the film's staff had sudden problems during filming.
Directing:
The film was directed by William Friedkin, who directed us the first true-adapted horror movie without using CGI technology, as this technology was not present at the time, and despite that, the film achieved high revenues to become the first horror film that achieved huge revenues in this period of time.
- The film is considered one of the strongest and most successful horror films at the box office, especially since it is one of the first films that dealt with the subject of demonic and jinn touching. Current with higher imaging technologies.
- Despite that, but the film is classified as the strongest horror film due to its story, which was different and strong at a time exposed to cinema in addition to being banned in many countries due to its frightening and not widespread content at the time, and circulation on video tapes was also prohibited.