![]() ![]() He also said Mom wouldn’t watch it again, that it was too much for her. ![]() He had seen it in the theater when it first released and told me it scared the piss outta him. I distinctly remember watching the movie on network TV with my father. ![]() Compared to some of the other book covers on the rack, the book just didn’t look like something I wanted to read. I thought the hazy, lurid, wraith-like girl, looking up at the camera with those haunted eyes, was lame for some reason. The blurbs on the front and back on the paperback, ‘SHOCKER OF THE YEAR’ and ‘9,000,000 copies in print’ sounded cool, but it was really the picture on the cover that wasn’t doing it for me. I’d seen the book at the library, the paperback tattered and torn, spine-cracked and dog-eared, yet for some reason, I wasn’t too impressed with the cover. The film was my first experience with the story, albeit a censored version broadcast on television for the first time. The late William Peter Blatty’s masterpiece, The Exorcist, is a foundation of modern horror fiction. ![]()
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