The Exorcist (1973): Accompanied by her 12-year-old daughter Regan, actress Chris MacNeil relocates to Washington, D.C., where she is filming a movie. Mother and daughter have a good relationship, but Regan begins to act strangely after a while. She undergoes various neurological tests, but doctors can find nothing to explain her behavior. As Regan's situation reaches crisis proportions, Chris turns to Father Karras, a Roman Catholic priest and psychiatrist, to see if an exorcism might solve their problem. Karras is incredulous, but the church eventually agrees, calling in Father Merrin, who had previously conducted an exorcism and came face to face with the demon.
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The Shining (1980): Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.
