導演：威廉?弗萊德金

主演：艾倫?鮑斯汀 馬克斯?馮?西多 Jason Miller

類型：驚悚/劇情/恐怖

上映日期：1973年12月26日 美國

推薦指數：★★★

劇情介紹

該片講述了12歲的里根?麥克尼爾(琳達?布萊爾飾)被惡魔附身，她的母親克里斯?麥克尼爾(埃倫?伯斯泰因飾)、父親卡拉斯(賈森?米勒飾)和招魂的牧師梅林(馬克斯?馮?賽多飾)為了解救小姑娘的靈魂而與魔鬼不懈斗爭的故事。

推薦理由

本片講述一個魔鬼附身的故事，但蘊涵著更深的社會涵義。本片曾被影迷評為影史上最為恐怖的電影，在最初放映時曾造成觀眾嚇暈等事件,以至于護理人員被劇院招來隨時待命，成為當時電影史上最具有爭議性的一部電影之一。

Plot summary

The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Peter Blatty. It is based on a 1949 exorcism Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit and Catholic school.

The exorcism was partially performed in both College Park, Maryland and Bel-Nor, Missouri.Several area newspapers reported on a speech a priest gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a thirteen-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks, ending on April 19, 1949.

An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and studying ancient relics. Following the discovery of a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an actual ancient Sumerian demigod) and a modern-day St. Joseph medal curiously juxtaposed together at the site, a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa. Meanwhile, in Georgetown, a young girl named Regan MacNeil living with her famous actress mother, Chris, becomes inexplicably ill. After a gradual series of poltergeist-like disturbances, she undergoes disturbing psychological and physical changes, appearing to become "possessed" by a demonic spirit.

After several unsuccessful psychiatric and medical treatments, Regan's mother turns to a local Jesuit priest. Father Damien Karras, who is currently going through a crisis of faith coupled with the loss of his mother, agrees to see Regan as a psychiatrist, but initially resists the notion that it is an actual demonic possession. After a few meetings with the child, now completely inhabited by a diabolical personality, he turns to the local bishop for permission to perform an exorcism on the child.

After consultation with the Jesuit president of Georgetown, the bishop appoints the experienced Merrin, recently returned to the States, to perform the exorcism and allows the doubt-ridden Karras to assist him. The lengthy exorcism tests the priests, both physically and spiritually. After the death of Merrin, the task ultimately restores Karras' faith, leading him to give his own life to save Regan's.

(Source: wikipedia.org，英語點津Julie編輯）