The Exorcist (1973)

Name: The Exorcist (1973)
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Rating: 4.888888888888889

2hr 2m

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

William Friedkin

Producer:

Noel Marshall, William Peter Blatty

Writer:

William Peter Blatty

Release Date:

Dec 26, 1973

Runtime:

2hr 2m

Synopsis

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Cast

Ellen Burstyn
Linda Blair
Max von Sydow
Lee J. Cobb
Kitty Winn
Jack MacGowran
Jason Miller
William O'Malley
Barton Heyman
Pete Masterson

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.9

RATINGS 15.3K FANS

3.9

Jan 20, 2014

I hope when my daughter hits puberty it'll be a tad less eventful.

8.7K Likes

DirkH

May 19, 2013

This review is based on a true story. Last night a human being watched this stoned and almost had a heart attack from fright.

6.4K Likes

Peaceful Stoner

Nov 29, 2016

Scary, but less scary than heartbreaking, suffused with grief and guilt and dread, with the sense that there's no system truly prepared to combat madness or pain, there's only trial and error, the compromise of barely surviving them.

5.8K Likes

matt lynch
Oct 29, 2020

12 year olds are just like that

5.6K Likes

nico ⛽️

Oct 20, 2019

the priest kinda cute tho 🤪

4.9K Likes

siobhan

Oct 26, 2016

Someone get this girl some chapstick!

4.8K Likes

Aaron Michael
Feb 6, 2022

their first mistake was talking to someone named captain howdy on a ouija board.

3.9K Likes

tawni─ ⊹ ⊱ ☆ ⊰ ⊹ ─

May 28, 2017

I love the that their strat to get the demon out was have boring old men come talk to it about religion... I would leave too

3.9K Likes

Dan

Sep 20, 2020

hot priest blueprint

3.6K Likes

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Atom Users Reviews

4.9

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Metacritic

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Based on 23 Critics

8.5

USER SCORE (525)

Universal acclaim based on 525 Reviews

Just as some of the footage deepens what is already there, additions in final reel, though closer to Blatty’s wishes, restate the obvious or add a feel-good patina which pushes the film closer to our own audience-pleasing period than the more daring early ’70s. [2000 re-release]

Robert Koehler

Variety

A museum piece, something to be enjoyed for its historical value. [2000 re-release]

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

100

William Friedkin’s full-throttle adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel works because it fuses the extreme and the everyday.

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

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The movie has been rated as R, meaning that Under 17 requires an adult accompaniment.

How long is The Exorcist (1973) (1973)?

The movie is 2hr 2min long.

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