Among the many differences between William Friedkin’s newest film and his most famous, one is considerably more visceral than the rest: “The Devil and Father Amorth” probably won’t make anybody faint and/or vomit.
The Academy Award–winning director has revisited “The Exorcist” 45 years later with a documentary about an actual priest who performs actual exorcisms, making a kind of companion piece to his horror classic.“The Exorcist” was ahead of its time in many ways, not all of which were confined to the screen.
Reports abounded — some confirmed, some not — of audience members having extreme physical reactions to the film.
Nearly half a century later, that tradition continues in fits and starts — someone might even make a documentary about it one day.The most recent of these is Julia Ducournau’s instantly infamous “Raw,” a cannibalistic horror offering that proved so unsettling to two attendees of the
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