Critic’s Notebook: William Friedkin’s Towering ‘The Exorcist’ Redefined Horror

Is there another modern horror movie as influential and enduringly terrifying as The Exorcist? Some might make a case for the atmospheric chill of works that preceded it, like Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby or Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. Others perhaps will point to subsequent hits — the…

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