That said, someone who saw that version first, and had not context for which scenes were "new" might not have had the same reaction to me. In general though, I find "Directors cuts" to be more miss than hit. While there are a few out there that are improvements, I often find that the extra stuff isn't particularly better than the original. Sax ( 2020) demonstrates the same. 2. “The Roman Catholic rite of exorcism, so effectively dramatized in Blatty’s movie, was first formally laid down in the Rituale Romanum of 1614, and the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which was in effect until 1983, mandated that every bishop officially appoint an exorcist for his diocese. .