And the label doesn’t really get to the heart of Friedkin’s true accomplishment with this film. No one knows whether The Exorcist can still be called the scariest horror movie ever.

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The Exorcist (1973), one of his most ... grows ever louder and more menacing. It is either ironic that neither Friedkin nor William Peter Blatty, author of the novel on which the movie was based ...

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William Friedkin, the acclaimed director best known for his Oscar-winning 1971 film "The French Connection" and the 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist," has died at 87. Friedkin died Monday in Los ...

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