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    In 'The Exorcist' and beyond, William Friedkin gave the devil his due

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Aug 08, 2023 5 minutes
    William Friedkin, who directed "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," in Chicago in 2013..

    As he noted in more than a few of the generously candid interviews he gave over the years, William Friedkin believed profoundly in the existence of evil. That may not sound like the stuff of revelation coming from the director of "The Exorcist," though one of the reasons that 1973 landmark lives on so forcefully — the reason it's outlived all the half-hearted horror homages, the pea-soup parodies and the (still-ongoing) chain of sequels and prequels — is that it treats the reality of the demonic with a deadly serious, utterly unfakable conviction.

    To these eyes, the movie's most subversive suggestion is that the devil that has taken possession of young Regan MacNeil may only be the greater of two evils. The lesser evil, arguably, is the pervasive skepticism that attends

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