Chris MacNeil - adored film star, divorced single mother - has come to Washington, D. C. to finish a movie. Swept up by the demands of her busy, flourishing career, Chris is blind to the subtle warnings that a dark, malevolent presence has invaded her comfortable townhouse.
Powerful and cunning, it is taking possession of Regan, her 12-year old daughter.
Every avenue of help leads to a dead end.
Now hope lies only in a doubt-ridden priest and his fragile elder... in a terrifying battle with an obscene, unspeakable evil that must end in victory ... or madness and death.
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How do you describe a book which movie one has seen for more than 10 times during the past 15 years ? It is difficult to see the book as the inspiration for a great horror movie because they are so different from each other. While the movie focuses mainly on Regan's possession the book rather keeps everything a bit like a mystery. Like for example who killed the director Burke Dennings and the police detective Kinderman's investigations into his mysterious death.
However, I can imagine why a lot of people thought this book is so frightening. In some parts it becomes very clear in how Regan's behavior emerges to the surface and impacts her surroundings. For me however, it wasn't frightening at all. I believe you've got to be religious to become frightened.
The movie clearly has an advantage to let the viewer know how Regan's head turned or how her famous spider crawling looked like. But even if there would not have been a movie the book couldn't keep up with my expectations caused by the hype.
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Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: HarperTorch (February 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061007226
ISBN-13: 978-0061007224
1 comment:
I read this when it first came out. I never had the nerve to see the movie.
It scared the heebie jeebies out of me so bad that I don't think I will ever forget it, basically because I think I was just too young to reading something like this.
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