The Exorcist | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The movie moves at a pace that is unheard of today; a good hour and a quarter pass before the word "exorcism" is even mentioned. Yet it weaves a frightening spell right from the get-go.

The Exorcist remains an exceptionally well-made, thoughtful film, enacted by a first-rate cast and displaying an almost masterful interplay between the humdrum and the horrific.

Friedkin performed a similar alchemy to that of Francis Ford Coppola [with The Godfather]: He took a good, pulpy novel and turned it into a great, enduring movie.

Some parts are bound to be greeted by unintentional laughter today, the result of countless parodies over the years. Still, The Exorcist has lost none of its ability to invade your nightmares.

The Exorcist accomplishes what so few horrormeisters save Stephen King have managed: It sets sin and salvation not in the realm of graveyards and goblins, but in day-to-day life.