Essay On The Exorcist

William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, is, in many ways, the scariest movie of all time. It’s not just a brilliant and terrifying motion picture, although it’s that; it’s also a great human experience, one that invites moviegoers to experience fearful emotions, face the unknown and shape our belief systems. The Exorcist, may not have won the academy award for best picture, it is, however, a brilliantly successful scary movie that still gives us nightmares even today. The Exorcist is intense and excels in fear factor. The horrific images of the film deliver the scares every time and will haunt your dreams forever. In a genre exhausted with cheap imitations, The Exorcist remains in a class by itself. The movie was innovative and groundbreaking, leaving a mark, the …show more content…
The film is based on the 1971 novel, The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty. Based on true events, the movie is a story of a 12-year old and her movie star mother who is temporarily filming in Washington, D.C. and rent a house in Georgetown during the shoot. The daughter soon becomes possessed by a mysterious entity and as a result her behavior begins to alter; the mother seeks medical help to no avail, but the doctors can’t find anything wrong with the child and let alone explain her new behavior. Despite being released over 40 years ago, The Exorcist remains relevant today because the film is about demonic possession, and thus, making science versus religion the central theme of the movie. The Exorcist examines the nature of spiritual faith. The daughter’s demonic possession brought a priest who was losing his faith closer to God and his faith was restored, and it forced the atheist mother to turn to God and ultimately becoming a believer. Unlike, slasher movie villains or monsters, demonic possession activity is possible today. Raul Silva, 52, an evangelist who has been serving the Lord for almost nearly 20 years, has encountered several demonic