Edwin F. Becker

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True Haunting: Erin Moriarty to star in film about a real televised exorcism

Posted 4 years ago

Deadline reports that Erin Moriarty (The Boys) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) have signed on to star in director Gary Fleder‘s film True Haunting, based on a novel by Edwin F. Becker (pick up a copy...

Televised 1971 exorcism inspires Screen Gems’ True Haunting

Posted 7 years ago

I was unaware of this, but in 1971, two years before THE EXORCIST (pictured above) reached theatres, NBC filmed and televised an exorcism, showing viewers an attempt to drive out the spirits that were inhabiting Edwin and Marsha Becker's Chicago...