5/12/2023 0 Comments The exorcist william![]() ![]() Blatty was as a successful comedy writer for Hollywood before he wrote The Exorcist, which transformed his career when it was published in 1971, while ushering in a new era for theological horror. ![]() While it’s difficult to think of The Exorcist and not picture the spinning, vomiting head of a model child actress Linda Blair (an iconic scene from the film), it was a publishing triumph before it was adapted for the big screen. The Exorcist sold on scandal and intrigue at the box office, with press stories of audience members fainting in cinemas, but it would take a further 15 years for Von Sydow to earn an Academy Award nomination (for Pelle the Conqueror, 1988). Von Sydow, who was famously tall at 6’3” and brought a Nordic angst to proceedings, came to rescue the possessed girl Reagan in the 1973 film. ![]() Von Sydow was considered one of the best of his generation, but achieved his cult-like following in his later years after playing the titular priest in The Exorcist, William Friedkin’s adaptation of the horror book by William Peter Blatty. It was announced on Monday that actor Max von Sydow had died, aged 90. ![]()
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