![]() 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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