Friday, October 31, 2008

The Exorcist And Georgetown

Georgetown's second great Halloween tradition is the screening of The Exorcist in Gaston Hall. Scripted by Georgetown alumnus William Peter Blatty and shot on and around the university campus,
The Exorcist is the Georgetown movie
- much more so than the bland and forgettable Brat Pack flick St. Elmo's Fire, which is ostensibly about a group of young GU alumni but makes only generic references to the university and wasn't even filmed there.
Thanks Joe! From the blog City and the World, read the full post (here)

Some of the back story (here)

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