The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear

I HATE reading Biblical analysis, and this book is packed with it. Plenty of entertaining behind-the-scenes-type stories, so it was still an enjoyable read.

I just finished The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear by Nat Segaloff and here are my thoughts.


It's been 50 years since the movie has been released and it is still one of the scariest movies of all times. 1973 was the year and it has had us gripped ever since.


It is a cult classic and Nat Segaloff has an interesting viewpoint of the rationale as to why it became a long time classic. It is still the benchmark for horror movies for sure.


The book that the movie is based on was written about a real life exorcism that happened in 1949. That book scared me as much as the movie did and is still one of my favorite horror books of all time.


This book is full of interviews and some really interesting information regarding the movie.


It was nice to read about how they managed to pull off so many of the special FX in a time before CGI. It got a bit repetitive but all in all, a solid non fiction read.


3.5 stars.


Thank you to @netgalley and @kensingtonbooks for my gifted copy