In our first look at the MacNeil family, we watch matriarch Chris go into Regan’s bedroom to shut a window. Film Quarterly’s Michael Dempsey called it a “trash bombshell” that expertly appeals to both “reactionaries” as well as liberal “sophisticates” and “ruthlessly manipulates the most primitive fears and prejudices of the audience.” ĭempsey and others look at the mania surrounding The Exorcist as evidence of a rapidly diminishing capacity for the contemporary American (and by extension Western) film audience to discern fantasy from reality, a condition expressed in both the personality cults and religious movements, new and revivalist, sweeping the country in 1973. In the film-academic world, contemporary critical response to The Exorcist was negative, and sometimes even vitriolic. Lapsed Catholics spoke of the film’s evocation of their pre-Vatican II haunted childhoods, while church officials were scandalized by the gross-out horror and sexual blasphemy of Linda Blair’s child possessee Regan MacNeil. Aping the sensationalist marketing of B-movies from the 1950s (like William Castle’s famous gimmick films, such as 1959’s The Tingler-electric shocks dealt from every cinema seat), ubiquitous TV and newspaper stories about the film during its holiday season release detailed the audience’s visceral physical reactions of disgust and abjection: moviegoers were passing out, vomiting, screaming in terror. It was nominated in four categories at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best cinematography for Chan Kwok-Hung, Best Art Direction for Silver Cheung, Best Original film Score for Peter Kam and Best Original Film Song for Jen, Ah Niu and Michael Wong.One of the biggest movies of the 1970s, The Exorcist is probably best known for the public response to its shock and blasphemy. The film earned HK$21,336,647 at the Hong Kong box office, becoming the second highest-grossing local film after Needing You.
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