William Friedkin's film of William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist is an expert telling of a supernatural horror story. The well cast film makes credible in powerful laymen's terms the rare phenomenon of diabolic possession.

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The 50th anniversary extended director’s cut of the 1973 tale of teenage possession still shocks

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The New York Daily News gave "The Exorcist" four stars in 1973.

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Read the Empire Movie review of The Exorcist: The Director’s Cut. Unlike a number of director’s cuts, this version does embellish the original film. It won’t,...

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Warners' theatrical release of a new version of "The Exorcist," including 11 minutes of footage that didn't make it into the 121-minute 1973 release, proves to be more than a marketing gimmick for extending the life of one of the studio's most successful projects. This edition of the seminal example of genre sensationalism refined by the cream of Hollywood craftsmanship is more complicated than a standard director's cut, since added scenes and images (Augie Hess was the supervising editor) partly represent the preferences of director William Friedkin and partly those of author-producer William Peter Blatty.

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The marketing of the umpteenth release of The Exorcist as "the version you've never seen" is more than a little misleading. For starters, most if not all of the added footage has been available in various home-video incarnations. Besides, those 12 unnecessary minutes—in particular a gratuitous special effect and a…

'The Exorcist' is back with a vengeance — and new scenes.