We dare you to watch William Friedkin's 1973 thriller alone in the dark.
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William Peter Blatty "The Exorcist"
Charging in effect that Warner Bros. had cooked the books to deprive them of their legitimate profits from last year's re-release of The Exorcist, writer William Blatty and director William Friedkin have sued the studio, demanding more than percent of the movie's profits.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2000 -- Seen any good Satanic-possession movies lately?The granddaddy of all devil-in-me flicks, "The Exorcist," is set to return to a handful of U.S. theaters next month in an all-new expanded and restored version that contains "more than one full reel of long-rumored, legendary footage, excised before the film's original release," according to Warner Bros.The new version isn't being billed as a "director's cut," but rather as an "author's cut." Director William Friedkin, who supervised the restoration, says this is the version that author William Peter Blatty (who wrote the screenplay, based on his novel) wanted to see back in 1973. Twenty-six years ago, Friedkin and the studio had other ideas. Now Friedkin's a convert. "After viewing it a quarter of a century later I've come to agree with him," Friedkin says in a