Making an Exorcist movie isn’t easy. Up until the most recent entry, released in theaters this week, every movie in the series has suffered from a tumultuous shoot, copious rewrites, or entire recuts.

I used to simply think there were a lot of exorcist movies. There are, but that doesn’t quite say it. There are so many exorcist movies that starting long ago they began to add up to something larger ...

There are exorcism movies and Exorcist movies, and the two have never really been the same thing. While movies about possession were around long before William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin’s 1973 ...