The Exorcist
1973
film · 1973 · 13 min read
The Exorcist
The Church's Improvised Tools Against Something Ancient
Directed by William Friedkin
Pazuzu predates Christianity by millennia. Friedkin cast a Mesopotamian wind demon in a Catholic exorcism ritual and left the anachronism intact — because the real terror is that the Church's tools are improvised against something far older and far less interested in theology.
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