The result is a genuine crowd-pleaser that has the audience not just cheering but also shrieking.
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While the production delivers a couple of serviceable jump-scares, it fails to capture what made the original so visceral and, well, compelling.
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But this stage version of Blatty’s yarn insists, with unforgettable effectiveness, that the most destructive sin to which you can succumb is despair.
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Theatregoers will enjoy the chance to squirm and scream at this stage version of a horror classic.
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It has its head-turning moments, but this feels like a Hallowe’en whodunnit with a bit of Catholic hocus pocus thrown in.
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But The Exorcist essentially feels flimsy, a piece created for the sake of Halloween, with the express intention of making everybody feel very uncomfortable.
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Connoisseurs of matters demonic will surely feel better served by sticking to the cinematic realm.
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[The Exorcist] is all very technically accomplished...But it feels haunted by the spectre of the braver production that might have been.
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