DAILY STAR
A sequel to the cult horror classic The Exorcist is set to prompt screams in cinemas across the US with its release today (October 6) – 50 years after the original.
The 1973 flick, which included iconic scenes like a girl’s heading moving all the way around her neck, terrified a generation.
And makers of the latest supernatural blockbuster, The Exorcist: Believer, hope to achieve the same. But many younger cinema buffs will have no idea that the movie is actually inspired by a chilling true story.
The person unfortunate enough to stir morbid interest was an anonymous boy dubbed ‘Roland Doe’ whose story was first reported in The Washington Post.
This later inspired The Exorcist novel in 1971 before the film version was released two years later. In both stories the possessed child was a girl named Regan MacNeil.
