“ A priest who, like Karras, was a Jesuit and psychiatrist
at Georgetown mentioned that although he believed in the Devil "there is no shred of evidence from the Bible that he can have an specific." Woods, the Loyola of Chicago professor, who experienced composed a
e book about the Devil, advised The New York Times that Karras and Merrin have been incompetent exorcists.
In 1975, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease released a paper by a psychiatrist documenting four
circumstances of what he referred to as "cinematic neurosis" triggered by
viewing the movie. In all he considered the neurosis was currently current
and merely brought on by viewing scenes in the film, significantly those depicting Regan's possession. He instructed that
the scores board had somehow yielded to strain from Warner not to give the movie an X rating, and
was skeptical of MPAA head Jack Valenti's promises that considering the fact that the film experienced no sex or nudity, it
could receive an R. After a week in Washington's theaters, Meacham
recalled, authorities cited the crucifix scene to invoke a community
ordinance that forbid minors from looking at any scenes with sexual information even where the
actors had been fully clothed police warned theaters that staff members would be
arrested if any minors ended up admitted to see The Exorcist. ”