As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
What story is The Exorcist by William peter blatty based on? For the most part, the story was based on a story of a story and most of it was bogus. There was for a long time the strongly held belief that this was based on the real life â¦ exorcism of a boy from the Mount Rainier area of Maryland in or around 1949.