The film that caused a US moral panic
By Anna BogutskayaFeatures correspondent
AlamyFifty years ago, the horror about a young girl invaded by a malevolent spirit caused pandemonium in the US. With a new Exorcist film out this week, Anna Bogutskaya reflects on the original's chilling legacy.
Over the last few years, possession narratives, in which characters are taken over by malevolent spirits, demons or gods, have been booming among horror filmmakers, with The Pope's Exorcism (2023), The Medium (2021), Evil Dead Rise (2022), Umma (2022), Talk to Me (2023), It Lives Inside (2023) and, of course, The Conjuring Universe all deploying them.
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