The Exorcist Filming Locations - 48 Years Later
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2021
- We're checking out all of The Exorcist filming locations in Georgetown Washington DC. Everything from stairs to the house, Georgetown University, and more. We love visiting filming locations around the US, but seeing The Exorcist house and steps in person was really special.
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Nice job; thanks! Yes, St. John's College High School, also in DC, is older than Georgetown. St. John's retains 'College' in the name because before Georgetown was founded, it was the only Catholic college.
And the Car Barn is where the city trolleys were housed. You may have seen some iron trolley rails embedded in the pavement of some of the streets of Georgetown.
In 1973 (when the movie came out) I had just graduated from High School and was living in McLean, Virginia (just a car ride over the bridge from Georgetown). My friend and I drove to a theater in D.C. to watch the movie. Afterwards, on the way home, we drove by the “steps” very slowly…talk about scary after having just seen the movie! I slept with the lights on for a long time after that!
Great story
Ohh my God
I’ve never seen anyone do a more thorough and detailed location video of this movie. Great job 👏
Thank you for watching it and the kind words!
@@TheMagicGeekdom I've seen the whole movie for the first time this year and the most disturbing bit for me was the stabbing with the cross
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Very well done! thank you for the detailed explanations,
We saw the Exorcist on it's opening run at the KB Cinema is D.C. Right after the movie ended we drove the two or three miles to Prospect St. and we walked the stairs top to bottom and up again. Man that was so cool in 73 to have done that. And yes the house in reality was way too far away from the steps for those two to have tumbled down. The film has stayed with me because it has that something special factor going for it. Everyone who loves this film should make the trek to go down those stairs.
That's so cool that you did that!
Great job. I was just there a couple weeks ago the week of the 9th of October 2021 right after you were there and found it as exciting as I did when I was here back in 75'. Thought the fact that the owners left the gate open of the house was interesting and good that we could see the whole building. Saw a woman in the 1st window sitting down reading. I definitely would rather live in the Exorcist house than the Transformer house. The track where father Karas was jogging around ...those bleachers were wooden. My guess is that they were replaced after almost 50 years. Thanks again for the effort put into all the locations of the where the scenes were. That was a lot of research you did and it was appreciated. That movie was very impressionable to me.
I appreciate that you would also rather live in the Exorcist house lol. Thank you for the info! I bet it was neat to visit when things looked closer to what they were like in the movie!
The one movie that gave me nightmares as kid, along with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which incidentally came out around the same time as The Exorcist. Your coverage of all of the main filming spots was very thorough, and you did a great job!
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Jeremy's favorite. Did you know that the house is now a restaurant? We ate dinner there a couple years ago. It's pretty cool. Thanks for watching!
Just the movie locations give me the chills. Some cinemas here in the UK had a priest outside the theatre after a showing. Catholics, or anyone for that matter, upset by what they had just seen, could seek support. Great publicity I suppose for a terrifying film.
Oh wow I didn't know that
This was the most thorough video I’ve ever seen and I appreciate the time you put into this! Awesome ❤️
I'm so glad! Thank you!
Bing a lover of Horror movies; The Exorcist was one of my favorite movies of all time. I took my girlfriend (who 4 years later became my wife) To see this
movie back in 1973. I just want to thank you for taking me on this Nostalgia trip back in time to these filming locations. Truly amazing! And thanks again! 🙏🏿
Oh wow that's awesome. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much!! You did an awesome job showing us all of the locations of today and how the locations appeared in the 70s!! Your hard work is so appreciated!!!
Thank you!
One of the best horror movies ever made, the film was excellent, the book was frightening more detail, William Peter Blatty was an excellent writer. Loved the film. 👍🏼😱
It's STILL scary.
Was just there today. You did a fabulous job. Thank you
Awesome! Thank you!
Ellen Burstyn was the one that got her back injured in The Exorcist - and they actually used the footage of her screaming and writhing in pain on the floor after she (her character, Chris McNeil) was slapped by the possessed Regan. Linda Blair suffered some sort of injury after she came lose from the harness holding her in while she was undergoing violent, whipsaw-type spasms on the bed.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the info!
Linda Blair also had a back injury as well as I just read in another documentary
Ah thanks for that
As rough as it was Linda did win the Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination.
True
This is awesome. I'm a huge fan of Batty's novels, but my favorite is not the exorcist, but "Legion." The movie "Exorcist III" was also filmed in Georgetown. Thanks for the tour.
Very interesting, I saw the movie when it first came out, the lines were around the block of the theatre in Manhattan. If I remember correctly, it was The Paramount theatre. I remember people from the line were making fires in the city trash cans on the sidewalks, the movie did leave a very scary impression on me. I loved Linda Blair for years after I saw the movie. Thank you for this post.
For some reason, those stairs always confused me as a kid, lol. Like, "How is it that there are streets below and above?"
Also, I love how you took the time to show comparisons between your footage and the actual movie instead of just showing random shots of those places. Thank you for that.
Haha I can see that. Seeing it in person made me appreciate the movie shots so much more because except for her walking out of the way to go home, everything about the movie logistically made sense with the real locations. Thanks for watching!
Loved this! You did an amazing job on the filming locations. What a beautiful area.
Thank you! And it really is a beautiful area!
50 years and still these houses are same, just preserved the movie 😇
Awesome video. Great job explaining everything. Thank you for sharing your experience. I feel like I need to watch the movie again 😃
Thank you for watching! and you should definitely watch the movie again 😃
As a huge fan of the movie I always love watching locations videos but your is definitely the best. I really hope I can visit those legendary places one day. Thank you for sharing!
Fantastic video ; My Mother went to see the Movie in England 1974 with her best friend. It was 5 weeks before
she could go to bed without the lights turned on. Needless to say, after what she told me.......I became utterly
obsessed with the film. I consider it the greatest film ever made.
Thank you for watching it. It is a really great film.
You did a great job of finding each scene location
Thank you!
The Best film ever made. There will never be another like it.
Great job on the locations! I only wish that you could have re-created the iconic Taxi U-turn/drop-off of the priest. It would be cool to see the difference on those angles. But a very informative video. A-PLUS!
That's a great idea! Next time
This was wonderful! Thank you so much! I love visiting Georgetown. My oldest son lives there and when I visit, I walk all around Georgetown so I am very familiar with the different areas you've shown. You did a phenomenal job of explaining the locations of the scenes that were in The Exorcist (a very scary movie!). And you have a great personality and smile that keeps us engaged in viewing your video. Thanks again for doing this video.
You really did an excellent job on this video. Excellent details and you took your time.
Thank you very much!
Okay. This has been done before in fact, there are The Exorcist tours that will drive you to each location in Georgetown and M street but very well done! As an aside... I knew the guy on the motorcycle that was an extra as Chris decides to walk home from the set.
Ok
This is a wonderful walk through. Thank you for all your hard work. So thorough, and thank you for the fyi on Linda Blair.
This was such a nice visit. Thank you for making this!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
That bridge where Cris and Karass met was right behind my fathers job on M street where the C&O canal was. I t was long ago drained. People used to skate on it during winter time and there was a nice long smooth path to walk along. Was very upsetting that they drained it. The race track was remodeled and is unrecognizable. The steps were one block over from my fathers job and the garage that the street cars would park in was next to those steps. Georgetown was so fun and beautiful back then and I am very glad that I was alive for that Era. You did a fine job walking us through the scenes. Thanks girl.
Many places of the filming location to the Exorcist was changed across the years , but today this places are amazing. Great video ! Congratulations ! I 'm an Exorcist fan !
Really enjoyed you're whole
thorough scene enacting setting moments
will sub out of principle for you're most passionate vid!!❤
Well done!👏🤘😂
I'm a total sucker, or rather, geek for these type of before and after location comparison vids. Context is everything. Brilliant work!! Aside from it's perfect slow-burn creepiness, the film, like The Shining for me, still endures for the little extra details and other possible hidden symbolism I may unearth every time I revisit it. Forever in my top 3 all-time movies tier.
Very descriptive and nicely done. I have been to that area and it really puts things in perspective when you watch the movie. Thanks!!!
Great commentary and footage. Such videos normally annoy me (mainly because I want to do the tour myself), but you guys are great!
I haven't watched this movie in years! I'm gonna have to watch it again now.
It's so good! I watched it for the first time since I was young about 5 years ago and we've made it an annual tradition now. Such a classic.
The third one was even better!
Great job. I visited Georgetown back in 2013. Went on a guided tour of its history. Yes, I was that guy who kept asking the guide “where’s the Exorcist stairs”? Tour culminated there. Took copious pictures. Georgetown is beautiful.
Lol thanks for watching! I'm glad you were able to take a tour.
Great story
My cousin brought me to watch this movie when I was 8 years old and she was an adult. I was terrified that night. I thought my bed would have levitate off the floor and shake. Lol! Now I'm turning 57 this August. This movie does not scare me now.
I'm glad it doesn't scare you anymore, but it still scares me lol. 😆
Check out the spider walk then.
@@TheMagicGeekdom Many, many strange things happened during the filming,so something supernatural was definitely going on.Anything strange?happen to you making the vid of Exorcist locations...
These filming locations videos are my favorite, you did an outstanding job! The best I've seen. Thanks.
this was the best location video i've ever seen .. i appreciate the information that you delivered
You did an amazing job with this video. I can’t imagine standing next to those steps. Great video!
2022
This is a cool video and it’s so cool that you went to the exact locations.I watched the movie years and years ago and I always feel that Georgetown is a bit of a creepy town, just from that movie alone
I'm (basically) a life long fan of The Exorcist and this upload was bloody fantastic. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much!
Amazing video! I actually go to Georgetown and I can't help but to think about this movie at least once while I'm walking to class I swear! A lot of people also use the stairs to workout but they're too damn steep for me to do that!
They are pretty steep. Thanks for watching it!
You did a great Job on this ! Thank You for sharing 😊
I love The Exorcist and saw it many times in the theatre in 1973/74.
Nice video, thank you.
The music is Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells...
Thank you, this was amazing. I love how you explain everything. 10 out of 10.
Absolutely terrific. Thank you so much. You were very informative. It was great.
Woahh, very spooky and cool! Love your channel, I've been binging everything. :)
Yay! Thank you!
What an awesome video! So informative, well done! Really!❤
Great video and thanking for sharing her rescue organization
Excellent video!
Thank you so much for all of your effort ❤
Good and interesting presentation. Thank you, very much for sharing this.
Although it probably wasn’t permanent or construction grade the modification of the house for the movie made it look better and more distinctive. That black fence the owners had built has been taking a beating ever since. It’s gotta be a challenge to live there sometimes. I am respectful when I visit but I do try to see the back yard if I can.
Cuantos actores q ya no estan!!!
El Padre Carras.... q galan!!
Soy de Argentina, no se ingles!!😁😂😁
La película tiene casi 50 años. La gente tiende a fallecer. Vimos a Linda Blair hace unos años.
oh waooo!!! this is fantastic, a terrific job, great vid continue doing this kind of work, congrats
You guys did a good job filming this short video along with documentation.🥈🥇👍
I was 6 years old and living in Benton Arkansas when the Exorcist hit the theaters in 1973.
Did you see it in the theater at 6? 😳
Ok
Great video! Thank you for posting 😊
I have always wanted to go to these locations. I hope to make it soon. Thank you for your great work. One of my favorite movies of all time.
You should! It is a really great film!
@@TheMagicGeekdom I've seen bits of the exorcist on TCM(here in the UK) at 18 or 19 in 2009/10 and its terrifying the first time you watch it
Definitely seeing the exorcist locations in person is on my bucket list
Wow this is very enjoyable and entertaining to actually see the actual locations of this iconic classic psychological thriller 👍💯
Loved it. You did a awesome job!
Awsome information.
Thank You!
Amazing! Thank you for this video. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you liked it! Thank you!
Nice work... congratulations to you, I'm very curious to know where are the locations of these movies I grew up watching... much success for your channel, keep making cool videos like this....they are great...thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing. This is one of the best movies ever! I also wet around the same location s when I lived in DC. ❤
The film was so traumatic to me as a 12 year old seeing it at the cinema in January 1974 that the two or three times that I have watched it since have been more or less tests to see if I could stand it without fear.
I just caught part of it last week on TCM, and for the very first time I was reminded of several things.
It is a snapshot of 1973, an era that I truly miss.
It's also the first of only two films that I went to with both my now deceased mother and stepfather, Papillion (1973) being the other.
And I noticed things in the film that I have developed a passing interest in now,
such as the Catholic lexicon.
Thank you for researching the locations, and uploading.
I was a student at Georgetown at the time and was an extra in the movie. I was in the bar scene which was filmed over several days and, although it was meant to be inside the Tombs bar near the campus, the scene was actually filmed inside Martin's Tavern on Wisconsin Avenue which is several blocks away from the university. Martin's Tavern is said to be the location where John F. Kennedy proposed to Jackie.
Thank you! Yes, the scene in the book and film is supposed to be The Tombs. But, no, they didn't film inside. Michael Blatty, son of the author, was the one who told me that. He also was attending Georgetown during the filming.
Nice job!! Very well done!!!
Cool comparison you made here. Big fan of the original movie, what turned out to be a classic. Still enjoy it today and hope to visit those places myself someday.
The Tombs bar is also a location for filming and is even mentioned several times in Exorcist III/Legion, the novel and film both also written by William Peter Blatty.
Hughes and Keating Halls at Fordham University in the Bronx were also used to film scenes from the movie.
I drove for a private cab company in 1975, I had a regular customer that I drove to work daily who worked in Keating Hall, she told me, she had to move her work hours from 5am to 8am bec of the paranormal activity that went on there after the filming was over it just so happened the those were the hours in which Jason Miller was listening to the tapes he had analyzed of his interview with Linda Blair when she spoke English backwards were filmed, they filmed during those hours to avoid the rush hour after the shoot. A story I've never forgotten.
My all time favorite movie, awesome video!!!!
Really enjoyed this video. Was hoping to see where the Barringer Clinic was filmed.
This deserves way more views
Thank you! That's so nice to say.
I loved this!
Thank you
I want to go visit the staircase so badly
Back in 1999 or 2000, I was in Georgetown for business. I had to seek out the house and take a few photos. I don’t blame the owners for having put the big fence and gate up to maintain some privacy. The Hitchcock Stairs were fun to walk down and back up. I even had a photo taken of me lying at the bottom of the steps just like Father Karras.
Ah great story
Great job! I've had umpteen opportunities to visit that location when I go to Washington DC, but I never have.
You should! It's very cool!
I love when movies are filmed on location vs a sound stage
Definitely a Top 5 movie for me..
I hope to make it there for the 50th anniversary
Thanks for sharing all of the then and now shots :)
Such a great film! It's insane that it's almost 50 years old! Thanks for watching 😀
Thank you for this interesting beautiful film location!
Our pleasure!
That still gives me shivers looking at it
Same!
Great video!! I'm a big fan of the movie. Would love to go see all these locations in person someday.
You should! It's a cool area and it's pretty walkable to got to most of the places.
It's nice to see that you like and appreciate this movie. I know many people who refuse to watch the film, and have made up their minds about it even though they never saw it...they have contempt prior to investigation. Other, people that saw it, thinking that it was a B rate movie, said that it was one of the highest quality films they ever watched. All one has to do is watch the opening of the movie in Northern Iraq to see that it is a movie production of very high quality. Also, have you noticed that there is no humor in the movie, it is dead serious in it's tone.
Great stuff about a great movie! Thank you.
Great coverage!
Thank you!
Yes that's my favorite movie of all time I hope to meet Linda Blair some day.
Seeing this makes me want to go home to watch the movie. My son and I watch it all the time. I just watched it about 2 weeks ago. This video is awesome and very detailed. To answer your question, I would definitely live in the Exorcist house because the "demonic" filming did not take place there.
Lol that's a good point. The fact that it's just a filming location makes it ok. Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. 😀
This video is sooooooooo awesome!!
Very Good Video! Would love to do a tour of the same region.
Thank you! You should!
Excelente informe 💯
Fantastic Job!!!!!!!! 5 stars!
I would not only live in the Exorcist house but if I had the money I would transform it to how it looks in the movie, inside and out.
Awesome video... Great job...
Thank you! Cheers!
I recently learned that the owner of the Tombs hated the book and wouldn't allow the crew to film there. Though the scene is set in the Tombs, it was filmed at another bar.
Very cool video, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
自分は日本に住んでる映画のエクソシストファンです。
当然ですが撮影当時と街並みが変化してるんですね。
ロケ地巡りいいですね♪