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Although there has been much discussion about the possibility of harmful psychological reactions to films, we have very little meaningful data. Bozzuto presents four cases which suggest a significant hazard in viewing the film, The Exorcist. He compares the mechanism to one that Freud discussed in A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis, which was published in 1923. The mechanism Freud described appeared to be the retention of a part object in the face of a loss as a partial solution to that loss. The principal psychological themes in both Freud's report and the recent film seem to be the loss of a parent, depression, and the psychological attempt at restitution by retention of a part object in the form of the Devil. Bozzuto's case material is interesting, although the therapeutic contacts in each case were limited. Moderate to severe disorganization occurred after viewing the film. The author views the precipitant as an increase of stimulus too powerful to be dealt with or worked off in the usual way. In each case, anger and hostility toward an ambivalently cathected object was experienced, which resulted in fears of identification with the Devil. Intense guilt over aggressive feelings then followed. In addition to these considerations, Bozzuto discusses his therapeutic approach, which appears to have been quite successful.