Professor Annabelle Sreberny
A strangely moving and sentimental film that nonetheless chills to the bone. Before it can be attacked, let alone defeated, it has to very first be believed in — as terrible and soul-threatening as this might be to the young priest and old priest charged with delivering the climatic exorcism. Fathers Karras and Merrin devote the third act of the film web fighting back the devil for handle of young Regan’s soul. And in doing so, Karras, a man of wavering faith throughout most of the film, ultimately believes in the only accurate good he knows by sacrificing himself to...