
William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist" has created a new documentary called “The Devil and Father Amorth".
When you've got a demonic child in Washington splattering dark stinking bile, croaking gibberish, spewing vulgar personal attacks, lying to sow confusion, whining about the unfairness of the attempts of righteous men to compel the diabolical behavior and head-spinning outbursts to stop, who do you call?
The demon-buster himself, of course, William Friedkin, the director of
The Exorcist.
Before Donald Trump became president, the most frightening thing that happened in the capital was
The Exorcist, which brags on its DVD cover that it's "the scariest film of all time."
It could well be, if the measure is moviegoers putting down their popcorn in unison when Linda Blair gushes green vomit.
"That was oatmeal - the pea soup was just for coloring," the 82-year-old Friedkin tells me, as we have lunch at 1789 in Georgetown, a restaurant opposite the steep concrete steps where Jason Miller's tortured Father Karras fell to his death in a violent struggle with the demon.
Comment: Cases of possession appear to be on the rise, and one wonders whether it's a reflection of the evil running rampant on our planet: