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The Exorcist

Its $441 million gross (adjusting for inflation) exceeds the runner-up Ghostbusters’ horror earnings and its portrayal of demonic possession traumatized audiences so deeply that 1973 saw a 30% drop in church attendance for months. Friedkin’s use of subliminal imagery set a technical standard for supernatural horror that persists today.

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