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Acting
Stacy Keach's thousand-yard serenity masking something genuinely broken.
Writing
Blatty's script dares you to laugh at things that should devastate you.
Production
That Hungarian castle location — gothic architecture doing heavy lifting.

Director
William Peter Blatty
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