Thursday, October 15, 2015

The Exorcist (1973)



Academy Awards, USA 1974

Won
Oscar
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
William Peter Blatty
Best Sound
Robert Knudson
Christopher Newman
Nominated
Oscar
Best Picture
William Peter Blatty
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Ellen Burstyn
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jason Miller
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Linda Blair
Best Director
William Friedkin
Best Cinematography
Owen Roizman
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Bill Malley
Jerry Wunderlich
Best Film Editing
Jordan Leondopoulos
Bud S. Smith
Evan A. Lottman
Norman Gay

Warner Bros.
Directed by William Friedkin
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)

Actress Ellen Burstyn concludes that her young teenage daughter is possessed after medical doctors cannot find a reason for her increasingly bizarre behavior. She resorts to asking for an exorcism by a Catholic priest struggling with his faith after the death of his mother. The priest enlists help from an elderly yet experienced Max von Sydow. Together they face an onslaught of profanity, sacrilege and vomit in their epic confrontation with the devil himself. Intelligent, and most of all convincing, portrayal of possession that gets my vote as the best horror movie of all time.

No comments:

Post a Comment