Comparative Openings: The Mummy (1932) Meets The Exorcist (1973)
An side-by-side audio-visual essay inspired by film historian William K. Everson’s claim that The Exorcist had been influence for its opening by Karl Freund’s The Mummy.
Donato Totaro has been the editor of the online film journal Offscreen since its inception in 1997. Totaro received his PhD in Film & Television from the University of Warwick (UK), is a part-time professor in Film Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and a longstanding member of AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).
