Steven recently had a project on Arab contributions to society in his world history class so he chose to focus on recent individuals. One of the individuals was William Peter Blatty who wrote his novel “The Exorcist” in 1971. The movie received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and lost out on best picture to “The Sting”.
It took a few phone calls but we were able to rent a copy of this movie and I thought it would scare my sons but they laughed throughout most of it. They thought it was funny but maybe a few scenes caught their attention. Apparently what they now see in movies, television and video games is more graphic and violent than what was considered horror in 1973.
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