Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Summit Mall Theater usher Doug Isenhart inspects the wooden cross that he wore around his neck during the first screenings of “The ...

Priests, played by Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, try to help a possessed child in The Exorcist, from 1973. The Exorcist on the marquee at the Warner Rendezvous cinema in London in March 1974. The ...

When the “The Exorcist” premiered 50 years ago, in December 1973, some theatergoers fainted or broke down in tears. A few even vomited. The film, which cast a young Linda Blair as a girl claiming to ...

The 1970s gave the world several of the most beloved scary movies ever released, including Halloween, Alien, Jaws, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Carrie. While those films are considered classics, ...

In the Feb. 2, 1974, issue of America, the editors invited Richard A. Blake, S.J., the Rev. Robert E. Lauder, Robert Boyle, S.J., and the magazine’s long-time film critic Moira Walsh to comment on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 50 years since, the cultural fascination with Satan has persisted. But as religiosity has waned, popular portrayals of ...