Why THE EXORCISTS should receive Bram Stoker Award

Rating: 8/10 (18 October 2006)

THE EXORCIST deserves to be part of William Peter Blatty horror works that won him the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award. The scenes of Regan possessed are horrifying. Regan is speaking in a very deep voice, instead of her usual high-pitched voice. Her eyes change to the color of yellow during the exorcism and her head turns around 360º. The devil gives off an odor and makes the room freezing and can make the bed literally levitate. In chapter four of part two, Blatty wrote on page 143, "...Chris watched helplessly while her daughter's eyes rolled upward into their sockets and she wrenched up a keening shriek of terror torn raw and bloody from the base of her spine. Burke Dennings was killed by Regan. The scary part was that "Burke Dennings...was found at the bottom of that long flight up steps at exactly five minutes after seven with his head turned completely around and backward." ------------ THE EXORCIST is a wonderful horror story that is full of suspense and can introduce one to the topic of exorcism. Mr. Blatty's ideas of Regan being possessed and how he is able to unite fiction and nonfiction together will make him a reputable author of horror. The Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award is for authors whose entire body of work has influenced horror and THE EXORCIST deserves to be part of Mr. Blatty's horror works that won him this award.