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The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror-drama film directed by William Friedkin, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name. The book, inspired by the 1949 exorcism of Roland Doe, deals with the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother's attempts to win back her child through an exorcism conducted by two priests.

Contents Plot At an archeological dig at the ancient city of in the Upper Mesopotamia region of, veteran Catholic priest and experienced exorcist Father finds a stone amulet resembling the statue of the Assyrian demon, whom Merrin dealt with before. Meanwhile in Georgetown, young plays with a Ouija board found in their basement. After she suddenly started showing signs of psychotic behavior Regan's mother Mrs. MacNeil takes her to several doctors to have many tests, some proving painful. Wren and martin english grammar book pdf. After showing no signs of mental disturbances in the brain the doctors recommend having an exorcism performed. At this point the demon realizes their plan and turned up its level of violence. Father Merrin, and an assistant priest named Father Karras came and tried to deal with the demon, now in complete control of the girl.

While her husband’s body crumbles, Elise rushes back to help Quinn. Elise takes the knife but instead stabs her husband, realizing he’s just an entity trying to fool her. She finds the demon wrapped around Quinn’s frail body, caressing her in his gaunt frame. This troublesome scene is not suitable for children while the husband’s body disguised as a demon spews blood into the air.

The exorcism turns into a completely terrifying failure for both priests, who struggle against the many powers of the evil spirit. The Demon psychologically tortures both priests and it actually causes Karras to back out of the exorcism. Merrin attempts to exorcise the Demon by himself, but he dies from a heart attack due to the demon´s power. When Karras returns, he attempts to revive the priest, but when he fails to revive him, the possessed girl just giggles. This enrages Karras, who then hits the Demon many times in the face and challenges it to enter his own body.

Pazuzu takes the bait and takes near full control of the priest and attempts to kill Regan, but Karras gains control again and remains in control enough to leap from the window and down a flight of stairs, mortally wounding himself and driving Pazuzu out of his body and back to Hell. Whilst the dying priest is accompanied with his friend giving him his last rites, a local police chief, who doesn't believe in Demon possession, begins revealing his theory of the situation and that Regan is a murderer. Noone seems to agree with him. With the demon banished, Regan and her family move from the house and try to forget about their awful past.

Regan, however, shows gratitude for the church´s effort in saving her by giving the priest´s friend a goodbye kiss, when he appears to say goodbye to them all. Parasite in the city free play. After that he looks at the scene a last time and moves away, too.

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