(Because the film featured a 12-year-old girl there was concern that it would be particularly appealing to kids in that same age demographic). While the movie was released without issue in 1981, the 1984 Video Recordings Act led to the movie being pulled from shelves in 1988. But it faced an even bigger challenge several years after being released on VHS. While The Exorcist was a box office hit when it was released in the UK in 1974, a handful of local religious groups protested the film's release and ended up getting it banned in certain areas. FilmPublicityArchive/Hulton Archive/United Archives via Getty Images Linda Blair stars in The Exorcist (1973). UK audiences had a hard time finding The Exorcist for many years.
They stated that the movie's lack of nudity or overt sexuality meant it qualified for an R, not X, rating. District Attorney's Office, no one under the age of 17 will be admitted to The Exorcist.' Advertising for the film now carries a similar warning."ĭespite the negative publicity, the MPAA stood behind its R rating. A sign was put up at the theater's box office reading, As a result of a ruling by the U.S. Attorney's Office, officers from the police department's morals division warned the management of the Cinema Theater that arrests would be made if any more tickets were sold for use by minors. "Early in the morning on New Year's Day, Washington became the first city ever to bar children from a film the review board said they could see. But local police acted swiftly to ban any underage moviegoers from entering a screening of The Exorcist (regardless of whether they were accompanied by an adult):
being a prime place where children and teens were interested in seeing The Exorcist-partly because it had been shot in the area and they were excited to see their neighborhoods on the big screen. Meacham's article made specific mention of Washington, D.C. threatened to arrest anyone who sold a ticket to The Exorcist to any non-adults.
In a 1974 article for The New York Times, Roy Meacham wrote that by giving The Exorcist an R rating, they were essentially saying that the movie was suitable for children to see, as long as they were accompanied by an adult, but argued that the organization "certainly wasn't thinking about the youngsters and the possibility of traumatic damage to them from the movie's unremitting and violent assault upon the emotions." Meacham relayed an incident about a young girl being "removed from a showing.
In the case of The Exorcist, the fact that the MPAA slapped it with an R rating instead of an X was what ruffled more than a few feathers. Typically, the simple act of being given an X rating is enough to cause a bit of controversy for a movie. London's ABC Cinema advertises the opening of The Exorcist in 1974.
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