More than half a century after its game-changing 1973 release, The Exorcist (airing this month on SYFY) continues to rate atop many critics’ lists of the greatest horror movies ever made. Directed by ...

Author William Peter Blatty, who wrote the best-selling horror novel, "The Exorcist," has died at the age of 89. Blatty died Thursday, according to William Friedkin, who directed the film adaptation ...

The Exorcist is still one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, even without adjusting for inflation, and for decades, no other R-rated horror film could touch it. Based on William Peter ...

William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50) was most well-known for writing “The Exorcist,” which was set largely in the Georgetown neighborhood. As he sat in a theology class at Georgetown taught by Fr. Eugene ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Exorcist. As written by William Peter Blatty, both in his original novel and his Academy Award-winning screenplay, The Exorcist (1973) did not happen.

July 1971 Blatty discussed the idea for his novel with Harold Keen. It was the nation's best selling book then. Donald Trump violated the Constitution, federal judge rules Nikki Glaser trashes CBS ...

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...

The Exorcist has long been touted as one of the scariest films ever made. Some would even call it the scariest. William Friedkin’s adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel about a young girl ...

Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and ...