Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case of The Exorcist.

The article examines the evil voice in the horror film "The Exorcist" by William Friedkin. Topics include a description of the voice of the evil possessed adolescent girl in the film named Regan MacNeil, the experimental efforts of sound designer Ron Nagle and his team to find the right voice for possessed Regan, the application of the theory of conceptual metaphor to voices in popular fictions and the reason for the notoriety of the 1973 film adaptation of "The Exorcist."