The Exorcist (1973)

This was another film I knew all about but hadn’t seen. But we’ll get to that. “Regan” (Linda Blair) is the twelve-year-old daughter of film actress “Chris MacNeil” (Ellen Burstyn), temporarily living in Washington D.C. while Chris is filming a movie. Chris has a couple of hired assistants to help keep an eye on Regan and their rented house, but Regan is still kind of left to her own devices, and her boredom spurs her to play with an abandoned Ouija board she’s found in the attic, where she periodically communicates with someone she’s named “Captain Howdy”. Meanwhile, elsewhere in D.C., “Father Damien Karras” (Jason Miller) is struggling both with caring for his elderly mother and with a growing crisis of faith; Father Karras’ mission is to offer psychological counseling to other priests and seminarians, and the stress is starting to eat at him. After a few months, Regan starts acting really, really weird. She starts punching and slapping Chris and her nanny. She has trouble sleeping.…

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