The Exorcist/The Shining

A double bill of classic horror thrillers: In 'The Exorcist' (1973) , actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her twelve-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen and withdrawn, Regan becomes aggressive and blasphemous, ugly welts appear on her face and body. No medical cure is forthcoming and after Burke dies after being thrown from Regan's window, Chris turns to local Jesuit priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) for help. Karras then calls in exorcist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), who confirms that Regan is possessed by the devil. 'The Shining' (1980) is Stanley Kubrick's chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at a remote hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack's writer's block gradually turns into murderous insanity.

Director: William Friedkin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: William Peter Blatty
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Music: Jack Nitzsche
Music: Béla Bartók
Actor: Ellen Burstyn
Actor: Jack Nicholson
Actor: Shelley Duvall
Actor: Max von Sydow
Actor: Danny Lloyd
Actor: Jason Miller
Actor: Scatman Crothers
Actor: Lee J. Cobb
Actor: Barry Nelson
Actor: Jack MacGowran
Actor: David Baxt
Actor: Kitty Winn
Actor: Lia Beldam
Actor: Linda Blair
Actor: Lisa Burns
Actor: Vasiliki Maliaros
Actor: Tony Burton
Actor: Wallace Rooney
Actor: Alison Coleridge
Actor: Titos Vandis
Actor: Barry Dennen
Actor: Billie Gibson
Actor: Anne Jackson
Actor: Kate Phelps
Actor: Philip Stone
Actor: Joe Turkel