Word: exorcistic
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...Exorcist...
...these days, and the Jesuit school's telephones are busy with calls on subjects that not long ago would have embarrassed thinking Roman Catholics: the devil, demonic possession and exorcism of evil spirits. The reason: part of the movie made from William Peter Blatty's novel, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14), was filmed at Georgetown...
...most articulate critics is Dominican Father Richard Woods, a young expert on occultism at Chicago's Loyola University who recently published a book called The Devil (Thomas More Press). Woods encountered 23 cases of people who thought they were possessed by the devil after reading The Exorcist; he now fears another wave of hysteria from moviegoers. "The movie is going to cause so many pastoral problems I wish they had never made it." Beyond that, argues Woods, the film never really grapples with the problem of evil. "The devil's true work is temptation. He leads us into...
...Exorcist had been invested with any real intelligence or passion, if it had wanted to do something other than promote a few shivers, the explicitness would never have mattered. As used here, the explicitness amounts to not much more than a shill, a come...
...hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have suited Fay Wray: look hysterical and scream. The role, alas, is the very essence of The Exorcist...