The Exorcist/The Shining

A double bill of classic horror thrillers: In 'The Exorcist' (1973) , actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran).

However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her twelve-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair).

At first sullen and withdrawn, Regan becomes aggressive and blasphemous, ugly welts appear on her face and body.

No medical cure is forthcoming and after Burke dies after being thrown from Regan's window, Chris turns to local Jesuit priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) for help.

Karras then calls in exorcist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), who confirms that Regan is possessed by the devil. 'The Shining' (1980) is Stanley Kubrick's chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker.

Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at a remote hotel in Colorado.

Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).

Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack's writer's block gradually turns into murderous insanity.