the exorcist by william peter blatty 1971

Kinderman grows suspicious of Chris’s housekeeper Karl after finding a flaw in Karl’s alibi.Īfter Regan returns home, Chris becomes increasingly desperate.

Kinderman approaches Karras and they discuss the occult. The violent way in which Burke’s neck was twisted all the way around leads Kinderman to suspect possible foul play. Detective Kinderman begins investigating Burke’s death, linking it to the desecrations at the churches. The doctors recommend sending Regan to a clinic in Dayton and Chris agrees.īurke Dennings is found dead under Regan’s window. Under hypnosis, Regan claims to be possessed by a demon who wishes to harm her. Chris becomes more desperate as the doctors struggle to find an explanation. Klein and a neurologist to the house there, they discover Regan screaming obscenities while masturbating. Regan’s problems are beginning to impinge on Chris’s professional career, so Chris calls Dr. Regan’s condition worsens: She swears, spits, and struggles to remember anything that happens. He learns about a series of desecrations in local churches. After the guests leave, Chris hears Regan scream and finds her writhing on her shaking bed.įather Karras, a Jesuit priest and a psychiatrist, works at a university as a counselor, where he advises younger priest, while hiding worries about his own diminishing faith. Embarrassed, Chris takes her daughter to bed. She tells one of the guests that he is going to die and then urinates on the rug. She hosts a dinner party for friends, and Regan appears just as the party is over. Chris cannot explain the strange occurrences around the house she also learns that a number of her business investments have soured. Chris discovers that Regan has been playing with a Ouija board to talk to an invisible friend named Captain Howdy. Chris hears strange sounds emanating from Regan’s bedroom and notices furniture and items of clothing seeming to move around the house. While finishing a film shoot with the director Burke Dennings, actress Chris MacNeil is living temporarily in Georgetown with her daughter Regan, her housekeepers (an elderly Swiss couple named Willie and Karl), and her secretary Sharon Spencer. In northern Iraq, an elderly priest named Lankester Merrin finishes an archeological excavation of a tomb and returns to America, shaken by a premonition.

The exorcist by william peter blatty 1971