The film was a critical and commercial success and launched a franchise that included the follow-up Exorcist II: The Heretic, ...

Similarly, when Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn ... who briefly appears in "The Exorcist" as a radiology technician, was convicted of murdering a film reporter six years after the movie's release.

Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil, the only person alive who's witnessed anything like it before.

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Seventeen long years after the execution of the Gemini Killer and the fateful night of pure terror in The Exorcist (1973), a spate of ...