Georgetown Washington DC 1973 Actress & divorced mother Chris Mac Neil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan The child becomes afflicted by spasms convulsions & unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses accompanied by physical mutation Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight & in her increasing despair Chris turns to troubled priest & psychiatrist Damien Karras who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures & speech On Karras's recommendation the Church summons Father Merrin a specialist in the exorcism of demons William Peter Blatty scripted this version of his own best-selling novel for director William Friedkin & was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay of 1973 This publication also
Includes:: the texts of the film's legendary 'lost scenes' & excised dialogue which shed additional light on The Exorcist's profound darkness