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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Smile” is a horror film that sets up nearly everything — its highly effective creep factor, its well-executed if familiar shock tactics, its interlaced theme of trauma and suicide — before the opening credits. In an emergency psych ward, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), a diligent and devoted therapist, is speaking to a woman who sounds like her soul went to hell and never made it back. Her name is Laura (Caitlin Stasey), and she describes, in tones that remain rational despite her tremulous panic, the visions she’s been seeing that no one else can. She sees faces — or, rather, a spirit, a something, that reveals itself in people’s faces. She can feel it lurking; the spirit’s signature is a face that will stare back at her with an evil smile, a scary grin of the damned. Describing all this, Laura becomes so distraught that she starts to convulse. Then the doctor turns around, seeing a smashed flowerpot on the floor, and Laura has disappeared. But no! She’s there, with a pottery shard in hand. And now she’s the one smiling, as she digs the shard into her neck and scrapes it along, slitting her throat in blood-gushing slow motion. Put on a happy face!

“Eras” tour would open that day. “We had this amazing Friday the 13th in October, which is the single best day to release a scary movie,” he told Entertainment Tonight.

showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterPrepare for a scare - as terrifying horror The Exorcist is coming back as a new trilogy.Released in the UK in March 1974, the original film saw a young girl called Regan MacNeil, played by Linda Blair, possessed by a demon.Original star Ellen Burstyn will reprise her role as the mother while Hamilton actor Leslie Odom Jr stars as a father who tracks her down when his daughter is possessed.But how much do you know about the original, which famously left cinema-goers fainting, crying and vomiting in terror? Here's Daily Star's dozen demonic facts.1.

The Exorcist.The actress, who famously played Regan MacNeil in the iconic 1973 horror film, took to social media to clarify her stance after Blumhouse confirmed they were working on a new series of films.“To all my fans asking about my involvement in the new Exorcist reboot, as of now there has not been any discussions about me participating or reprising my role,” Blair wrote on Twitter.“I wish all those involved the best and I appreciate the loyalty and passion the fans have for The Exorcist and my character.”#TheExorcist pic.twitter.com/MXU5axqSNz— Linda Blair (@RealLindaBlair) July 26, 2021Ellen Burstyn, however, confirmed she would be reprising her role of Chris MacNeil in the forthcoming films.

would reprise her 1973 “Exorcist” role of Chris MacNeil — mother of devil-possessed teen Regan MacNeil, played by Blair — for an upcoming $400 million sequel trilogy to the classic horror film. However, one key casting question was not addressed by the announcement: Will Linda Blair reprise her own character for the project?On Monday evening, the 62-year-old actress shared a statement on Twitter, noting that “as of now there has not been any discussions about me participating or reprising my role,” adding that she “wished all those involved the best and I appreciate the loyalty and passion the fans have for The Exorcist and my character.”Blair further told The Post that representatives for screenwriter and director David Gordon Green (of

Peacock. “Halloween” director David Gordon Green is at the helm of the revived supernatural, cross-wielding priest film series.

Universal Pictures and and NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock, in partnership with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, have closed a reported $400 million-plus deal to purchase worldwide rights for a new Exorcist franchise that will see Ellen Burstyn reprise her role as the mother of a demon-possessed child.