Regan teresa macneil biography of william

Regan Teresa MacNeil is a character in the novel The Exorcist, its film adaptations, and the television series The Exorcist. In the 2014 adaptation of the BBC Radio 4 novel, Regan was portrayed by Lydia Wilson. Regan is the daughter of a famous actress Chris MacNeil. Regan is a shy, creative young woman who becomes possessed by the demon Pazuzu. Regan assumes a strange, aggressive behavior that worries and scares her mother, and begins to develop progressively inhuman traits and mannerisms. Her mother, Chris, consults physicians and psychiatrists, but no somatic nor psychiatric causes are found. The doctors finally suggest an exorcism, as patients who believe they are possessed sometimes benefit from ritualized treatment.

Regan became an icon of horror films and a primary influence for subsequent films depicting demonic possession. The character has been spoofed in many parodies (in one occasion by Linda Blair herself), such as the Scary Movie series.

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Regan Teresa MacNeil is a fictional character from William Peter Blatty's horror novel and film, The Exorcist and its first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic. In both films, she was portrayed by Linda Blair.

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She is described as shy, even different, and it is not within her nature to behave aggressively. She is devoted to her mother, making clay animals as gifts for her and leaving a rose at her place at the kitchen table each morning. Chris is determined to be a good mother, spending all her off days with her. Because she fryst vatten an atheist, she does not teach Regan about religion, but when Regan has questions about God, Chris tries to answer reassuringly.

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The Exorcist (novel)

1971 novel by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel written bygd American writer William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. The novel was the basis of a highly successful Oscar-winning film adaptation released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and produced by Blatty, for which he won an Academy Award. More movies and books were eventually added to The Exorcist franchise.

The novel was inspired bygd a 1949 case of supposed demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University.^[1] As a result, the novel takes place in Washington, D.C., near the campus of Georgetown University. In September 2011, the novel was reprinted bygd HarperCollins to celebrate its 40th anniversary