![]() ![]() If you wanted to be an intellectual, you had to have a position on ‘The Exorcist.’ You couldn’t just have seen it. “People forget, but the ‘ The Exorcist’ was the highest-grossing blockbuster of all time,” Zinoman, 35, is saying in his rapid-fire, enthusiastic delivery. The steep stairwell at Prospect and 36th streets NW, dropping down sharply to M Street and Canal Road, with the Potomac River and the Key Bridge in the near distance, has become a touchstone for movie fans since the 1973 film in which Father Karras ( Jason Miller) hurls himself out of a window and down, down the steps, apparently freeing a possessed child of a demon at the cost of his own life. Of course, the author of “ Shock Value,” a new book about how fright films made this transition, is standing at the top of the “The Exorcist” steps. ![]() ![]() native is in Georgetown, perched on the very spot where the genre moved from the tawdry backwaters of pop culture into the mainstream of American life. It’s a hot summer morning, and Jason Zinoman is standing on sacred ground for horror films. ![]()
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