"The Exorcist" is named best British film horror

The tape director William Fridkina "The Exorcist", which was established based on a novel by William Bletti in 1973, was named British best horror film in the history of cinema, transmits agency AFP.

Horrible picture tells the story of girls Riga, which gives a demon. Unsuccessfully try all methods of healing, a young Jesuit priest Demen invite Satan give himself, leaving the girl. He inspires, and the priest at the time of enlightenment thrown from a window and dies, the stairs.

Second place in the ranking of the best took a screen adaptation of Stephen King's famous novel "The Shining", created by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. In the three leaders also had the tape "Alien" Ridley Scott (1979).

In the ten best hit with such films as "The Silence of the lambs" Jonathan Demme (1991), "Saw" James Wang (2004), "Halloween" John Carpenter (1978), "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Uesa Craven (1984) "Call" Hideo Nakata (1998), "Pleteny people" Robin Hardy (1973) and "Omen" Richard Donnera (1976).

In the voting was attended by more than 6,000 Britons. The survey was conducted on the site of HMV, from 19 September to 20 October 2008.