character stepping out of a cab into a beam of light from an upstairs window at the home of a possibly possessed woman is a psychiatrist, not a priest. In 1992 the hard rock band Pantera named its sixth studio album Vulgar Display of Power, from the possessed Regan's demurral when Karras asks why, if the possessing spirit is indeed the Devil, she would continue asking him to remove the straps on her arms rather than making them disappear. The title was reused for a book about the band's adventures on tour culminating in the onstage shooting death of guitarist Dimebag Darrell. Popular comedy used the film as an inspiration; SNL parodied the film during its first season, with Richard Pryor in the Karras role and Laraine Newman as Regan. Ghostbusters, the 1984 comedy blockbuster, included joking references to many successful horror movies from the previous two decades, including The Exorcist. In one scene, Sigourney Weaver's character has become possessed by an evil spirit, as Bill Murray's Dr. Peter Venkman attempts to communicate with her she begins to speak with a deep, husky voice and levitates above her bed. In 1990, Blair starred as a housewife needing exorcism in the parody Repossessed. Court opinions in cases not concerning the film have referenced it. In 1999, Massachusetts federal judge Reginald C. Lindsay, considering a product-disparagement suit brought by Gillette against competitor Norelco, noted that in one of the latter's commercials for its Reflex Action shaver "the razor corrodes and twists its 'neck and head,' apparently in an effort to evoke recollection of a scene from the motion picture The Exorcist. At the same time, the voiceover states: 'A blade can leave you feeling irritated. What would possess it to do that?'" A Colorado lawyer challenging his 2005 suspension from the bar admitted his own recorded voice on obscene phone messages he left his wife while under the influence of cocaine sounded like the possessed Regan. Litigants have made similar observations about people experiencing mental illness. Religious wariness toward the film abated as years passed and it became more widely accepted as a classic. "The Exorcist exposed people around the world to the question of evil in a new and terrifying way", wrote Jesuit Jim McDermott in a 2019 issue of America. "It is a film that takes on big questions and aspires to do much more than shock." In the heavily