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4K Ultra HD Review – The Exorcist (1973)

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The Exorcist, 1973. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. SYNOPSIS: The Exorcist celebrates its 50th anniversary with a head-turning (I know, I’m so funny) 4K UltraHD edition containing both the original 1973 theatrical cut and the extended director’s edition […]

Overlooked Horror Actors and Their Best Performance

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While these actors aren’t specifically known for horror, their work in the genre is easy to overlook… Within the horror community, we often focus our admiration and attention on some of the more iconic actors. If it’s classics like Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee to modern icons like Sarah Michelle Gellar or Bruce Campbell, we […]

Seven Famous Cursed Movie Productions

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Disasters, terrible luck, radiation poisoning and death. We look at some famous cursed film productions… With Flickering Myth’s first foray into movie-making on The Baby in the Basket now underway, we’ve found ourselves faced with a number of problems throughout pre-production as recently covered in our pre-production update. We’ve dealt with unavoidable dropouts, unexpected costs […]

The Must-See Horror Movies From Every Decade

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EJ Moreno on the best horror movies in cinema history… Horror is a film genre as old as the medium itself. Since the start of the cinemas, people have packed the seats in hopes of getting some chills and thrills. As a life-long fan of the genre, it’s essential to recognize the history of horror […]

Jason Blum on moving The Exorcist: Believer away from Taylor Swift concert film

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Jason Blum has conjured up quite a few memorable scares in his career, but one thing he doesn’t want to battle is Taylor Swift and her fans. If you recall, Universal Pictures and Blumhouse landed the coveted Friday, October 13th date for The Exorcist: Believer, perfect for a horror event. But things changed swiftly when […]

Scary bedtime stories summon a demon in The Exorcist: Believer clip

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The Exorcist: Believer may have been scared into cinemas a week earlier thanks to the Taylor Swift concert movie, but director David Gordon Green’s latest legacy sequel is still hell-bent on making a mark at the October box-office, and judging by this creepy new clip for the Universal/Blumhouse horror film it has a good chance […]

Get a look inside The Exorcist: Believer with new featurette

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With under two weeks to go until The Exorcist: Believer arrives in cinemas, a ‘look inside’ featurette has been released for the film which sees director David Gordon Green, and stars Ann Dowd, Olivia O’Neill, Lidya Jewett, Ellen Burstyn, and Leslie Odom, Jr. discuss what to expect from the horror sequel; watch it below… Since […]

Taylor Swift concert movie scares The Exorcist: Believer into changing release date

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What’s more powerful when it comes to warding off demonic possession? A crucifix wielding priest spitting the word of God, or an army of Swifties setting pre-sale records for the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie? If you put your faith in the former then you’d be wrong, because Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: The Believer […]

William Friedkin: The Cinematic Sorcerer

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We look at the stellar career of the late William Friedkin and in particular his underappreciated masterpiece, Sorcerer… William Friedkin has sadly passed away but left behind a resume filled with masterful cinema including several films which redefined genres. When it comes to cinema, there are some filmmakers who have never quite had the level […]

The Exorcist: Believer possesses us with first trailer

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David Gordon Green is set to deliver his scariest outing yet, and we got our first glimpse at the devil-filled madness. Today, the first trailer for Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer arrived, and it’s a delightfully twisted treat. We get a look at our new story while also revisiting iconic characters from the original outing. The […]