The Exorcist’s Dedication: What’s Banning a Sequel to a Horror Movie That Traumatized an Entire Generation?

In 1973, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was banned in American theaters for under-17s and is still banned in French theaters for under-12s.

Fifty years after the first opus, David Gordon Green and producer Jason Blum, already at the helm of the Halloween trilogy with Jamie Lee Curtis, present the sequel to the cult film called The Exorcist: Devotion, the first reviews of which have been revealed. .

What is the ban for the future?

Starring Ellen Boorstyn, Leslie Odon Jr., Young, Lydia Jewett, Olivia O’Neill and Ann Dowd, the horror feature film is banned in our theaters for children under 12.

This second opus takes place today in the United States. Victor Fielding is raising his daughter Angela alone. One day, Angela and her friend Catherine disappear into the woods, only to reappear 72 hours later with no memory of what happened to them… Since then, strange events have followed and Victor has been confronted by terrible forces of evil. Desperate and terrified echoes the only person alive who has ever witnessed such events: Chris McNeil.

David Gordon Green and Jason Blum use the same formula here as for Halloween: bring back the cast from the original film and continue the story of the first opus. Exorcist – Loyalty So it doesn’t count the sequels: John Boorman’s The Exorcist 2 – The Heretic (1978) and The Exorcist III by William Peter Blatt, author of the novel that inspired Friedkin’s film (1990).

With a budget of $12 million, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist revolutionized the genre and started the subgenre of the exorcism movie. With $402 million worldwide, it is one of the highest-grossing horror films of all time. Its success also paved the way for many other big-budget horror films.

With an estimated budget of $20 million, The Exorcist: Devotion hits theaters this Wednesday, October 11th, will it manage to top its predecessor?