'The Exorcist' is rewriting all the rules of horror, and that's why we love it
We hold these horror truths to be self-evident: Unless you're the "final girl" at the end of the slasher flick, women and people of color are usually the victims in scary movies and TV shows, not the heroes. (Just ask Michael Che, who made a too-real quip about it on this week's Saturday Night Live.)
The Exorcist — Fox's small-screen follow-up to the iconic William Peter Blatty novel and 1973 film adaptation of the same name — bucked that trend right out of the gate, choosing to center its story around two priests, one of whom is Latino (Alfonso Herrera's Father Tomas Ortega) and one of whom is gay (Ben Daniels' excommunicated Father Marcus Keane) — two perspectives that aren't often serviced in mainstream horror projects. Read more...
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'The Exorcist' is rewriting all the rules of horror, and that's why we love it
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