Know Your Favorite Horrific Movie With This Daily Dread Review

By Lena Stephenson


Are you thrilled by horror movies? The market is awash with several horror thrillers are worth watching. Hollywood in particular has been good at energizing our imaginations with some masterpieces of this kind. These have kept us glued to the screen watching these frightening movies. To the lovers of horror, lets us review the Exorcist, as part of our daily dread reviews. This has been touted as one of the most horrific productions of all the time.

The American horror movie released in 1973 was an adaptation from Peter Blatty novel that had been released in 1971 by the same title. The novel traces its roots from a case in which Ronald Doe was exhorted of a demon in 1949. The film builds its story around a mother who tries all she can to bring her teen daughter back to normalcy after being possessed by a demon with assistance from two priests who perform the exorcism.

Warner Bros released the movie by the end of December 1973. The movie shined all the way to be nominated in ten different Academy Award categories. It scooped two of these categories one being adapted screenplay category and the other being best sound mixing. Many years later, it was nominated as the scariest movie by several entertainment authorities all over USA and Europe.

The movie starts with a catholic priest called Lankester Merrin in an archeological excavation in Iraq. As he goes along with his work, he finds an amulet that resembles Pazuzu statute, which was a demon that he defeated several years before. At once, he realizes the demon is on a revenge mission.

We are also taken to one Chris Mac Neil, a famous actor who lives in Washington with her daughter. In the movie, she plays Ouija board with the teen daughter called Regan. She is about 12 years of age. Out of the blues, Regan starts behaving funny. She starts making deafening sounds, uses obscene language, and becomes overly strong. She even continually shakes her bed much to the horror of her mother.

Chris, her mother, seeks medical attention for her daughter. After several painful tests, the doctors conclude that she is okay. Little do they know that Pazuzu the demon has taken over her body. Her condition worsens culminating to her killing the acting director called Burke Dennings and the babysitter at night. The government brings in a detective, Kinderman, to probe these murders. Kinderman interviews both Chris and another priest who had lost faith by the name Karras.

Doctors finally give up on Regan and exorcism seems the only way out. Chris asks Karras the priest to help her alongside Merrin. Karras at first declines but soon agrees after he finds a plea for help on Regan stomach and a recording where Regan talks in reverse.

The two priests are unable to exorcise the demon. It mocks them in the process even abusing Karras dead mother. Karras leaves after sometime. Merrin is left to deal with the demon. However, after some time Karras comes in only to find Merrin dead. He pleads with the demon to leave Regan and enter him instead. He sacrifices his life by jumping over a window and dying out of head injuries. This banishes Pazuzu from earth. Regan feels better after sometime and returns home. Kinderman, befriends her to help unveil why Karras died. This is a real thriller.




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