The dof the director's cut of The Exorcist has been banned on Good Friday by the government of the Australian state of Victoria, according to a report from the Associated Press. And according to the state law, theatres cannot run movies on Good Friday or Christmas without a permit. That permit was denied to the would-be Exorcist exhibitors out of respect for Christians who might take offense to the content of William Friedkin's horror classic.

An enhanced version of The Exorcist was re-released last year by Warner Bros. in the United States, and the film contained 11 minutes of previously unseen footage and a digitally enhanced soundtrack. And the film was recently aired for the first time on British television after being denied a U.K. home-video release in the 1970s. The main reason was that the film was considered too disturbing.