And it's not just Catholics who have a visceral reaction: News footage filmed at movie theaters during The Exorcist's
original theatrical run shows people, many of them women, leaving midway through the movie short of breath and clutching their chests.
Running February 19 thru March 10, along with a separate shorts program of short films and trailers, the Music Box will be
showing 14 features — some of them in prints from their
original theatrical runs — that
run the gamut from Oscar - winning classics to cult oddities to contemporary uses of the format.