The Exorcist is without a doubt one of the influential horror films of all time and is one of two horror films that have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The other being Silence of the Lambs which won Best Picture in 1991. In 2000 director William Friedkin edited a new cut of The Exorcist, billed as Extended Director's Cut - Version You've Never Seen. Warner Bros released
The Exorcist (1973) is the sensational, shocking horror story about devil possession and the subsequent exorcism of the demonic spirits from a young, innocent girl (of a divorced family). The Exorcist was notable for being one of the biggest box-office successes (and one of the first 'blockbusters' in film history, predating Jaws (1975) ), and In a 2018 interview with The Guardian, Mexican priest and exorcist extraordinaire Cesar Truqui declared that "Christ was the first exorcist." In a sense that makes every Christian exorcist a Jesus tribute band. Tribute bands seldom excel like the originals, but Truqui claimed to have hit the right notes during more than 100,000 exorcisms. The Exorcist 's infamous " spider-walk " scene has two different versions, and there is an interesting reason behind why they exist. Based on William Peter Blatty book of the same name, The