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Linda Blair suffered a "midlife crisis" in her 20s. The 64-year-old actress shot to fame when she was just 14 years old thanks to her role as Regan in 1973 horror classic 'The Exorcist' and she explained how her "life's calling", animal volunteer work, came about when she began looking for fulfilment a decade later. She told People magazine: "In my 20s, I said, 'I really am struggling.' It was like, for some, a midlife crisis. But, for me, it was my life's calling, saying, 'What about me? The animals need help.' "So that's where I really started buckling down ... and I was giving my time and m...
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'The Exorcist: Believer' director David Gordon Green says audiences have become “desensitised” to horror. The upcoming supernatural film is a direct sequel to the 1973 horror classic 'The Exorcist' in which Linda Blair starred as Regan MacNeil, a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a demon. The new flick follows another family whose daughter, Katherine (Olivia Marcum), is demonically possessed. And Green insists the movie is not about trying to be as “shocking” or provocative” as you can be, because it’s practically impossible to “shock” people these days. Speaking to SFX magazine, he explain...
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'The Exorcist: Believer' set was affected by a "weird energy" that influenced the horror movie. The upcoming supernatural film is a direct sequel to the 1973 horror classic 'The Exorcist' in which Linda Blair starred as Regan MacNeil, a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a demon. The original movie was disturbed with supernatural goings-on during production, with the crew believing 'The Exorcist' set was haunted as the shoot was plagued with tragedies. Before or soon after its release, nine people died that were associated with the movie, most notably Jack MacGowran - who played Burke Dennin...
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'The Exorcist' star Linda Blair worked as a special advisor on new sequel 'The Exorcist: Believer'. The hotly anticipated horror movie from Blumhouse Productions acts as a direct sequel to the 1973 classic, in which Linda starred as Regan MacNeil, a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by the demon Pazuzu. Ellen Burstyn has returned to the franchise to play Regan's mother Chris MacNeil, 50 years after the original film, and now director David Gordon Green has revealed that Linda was on-set to help child actresses Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum, who are the new victims of Pazuzu in the movie, Spea...
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'The Exorcist' has been voted the scariest movie of all time. The 1973 horror film - which was directed by William Friedkin and stars Linda Blair as demonically possessed12-year-old Regan MacNeil - has come top in a British poll to name the "scariest" horror film ever, beating off competition from the likes of Jodie Foster thriller 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 1980 classic 'The Shining' by taking 12% of the vote. Mark Barlow from Showcase Cinemas, which commissioned the study, said: "Horror movies continue to be extremely popular with our guests throughout the whole year, not just at Hallowe...
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Ellen Burstyn only signed onto the new 'Exorcist' movie after film bosses agreed to set up a a scholarship program for young actors as part of her pay deal. The 89-year-old actress appeared in the original 1973 film playing the mother of Linda Blair's possessed young character Regan and she's now involved in plans to revisit the scary movie in a new trilogy helmed by 'Halloween Kills' director David Gordon Green - and Ellen has revealed she was reluctant to sign up at first until she got an offer she couldn't refuse. She told The Hollywood Reporter: "I’ve turned down many versions of 'The Exor...
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Jamie Lee Curtis wants to voice the devil in the 'Exorcist' reboot. The 63-year-old actress is keen to reteam with her 'Halloween Kills' director David Gordon Green on his upcoming horror trilogy - which will star the likes of Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn - and she's particularly keen to portray the demon, which in the 1973 original was voiced by Mercedes McCambridge as she possessed Linda Blair's young character Regan. She said: "Maybe I should be the voice of the devil like Mercedes McCambridge. "You see, if David gives me a part in the new Exorcist trilogy as the voice of the devil, th...
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Linda Blair has not been asked to reprise her role as Regan MacNeil in the upcoming 'The Exorcist' reboot. The 62-year-old actress starred as a child possessed by a malevolent demon in the 1973 horror classic, whose mother Chris MacNeil, played by Ellen Burstyn, approaches two Catholic priests to save her child. And after it was revealed that a new trilogy is on the way, which will see Leslie Odom Jr. play the father of a child who has become possessed in the first film and Ellen back as Chris, Linda has confirmed she has not received a call to join the new films as of yet. In a statement shar...
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