FIRST TIME (I SWEAR) WATCHING "THE EXORCIST" (1973) SCARIEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN?
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Ellen Burstyn does not get enough credit for this movie. She is so good and honestly one of the best performances of all time! Any genre! Nice reaction! My favorite horror movie of all time!
She won a lot of acclaim for her performance.
@@mikerodgers7620 Definitely at the time, but when people look back on this film now, you only hear about Linda Blair.
Agreed. She's fantastic.
Somehow this is the first time I'm realizing it's the same lady from Requiem for a Dream.
I agree 100%. She was fantastic. But let's be honest...It's easy to act like you're in pain when your back is being broken.
All that said, every performance in this movie was "Oscar worthy". And I love how it's still scaring the shit out of people to this day.
That poor old Father Merrin was eating Nitroglycerin like Tic-Tacs.
Captain Howdy -- What's funny is, that if a re-make was done today, the actor would probably be "eating Tic-Tacs like Nitroglycerin".
He probably really was eating tic-tacs.
LOL When most people see the Ouija board they say, "Don't you know NOT to mess with that thing?" Not realizing that THIS was the movie that taught American culture NOT to mess with that thing!!
Right? It was meant to contact _yourself,_ because that's what it actually does.
I know of a few people that knew not to mess with the board before this movie came out. Plus two of those people I know did have a creepy experience with the Ouiji
That's true. All the kids I know were messing around with these in the early 70's, but not for long! The church moms and dads went to war over this stuff.
Precisely! The scare tactic concerning Ouija (actually means "yes-yes" in both French=oui and German=ja) is rather funny since the famous planchette has been debunked quite a while ago. It's actually the ideomotor effect that comes into action... NOT imaginary spirits and demons.
THIS. I was a teenage roman catholic who saw this in 1973 in Georgetown - we were absolutely taught DO NOT USE OUIJA boards from early childhood. ever.
Then came this film and NO ONE wanted to use them anymore.
You talk too much and miss things. When Father Merrin (the old man from the beginning) first enters the house, Pazuzu (the demon possessing Regan he confronted in Iraq) yells his name, "MERRIN!!!" After Merrin first felt Pazuzu's presence in Iraq, it was his destiny to confront him again.
This is disturbing now. Can you imagine what this did to people in the early 70s? My aunt had to go to therapy.
I seriously can't imagine watching this in the 70s and not having nightmares for months
@@FlixTalk It took awhile for me to watch the film again once it became available for home use (VHS, then DVD).
I like how you understood and appreciated the purpose of the build-up. Not everyone understands plot structure! Good review & reaction to the original classic.
Thanks!
I was in Marine Corps boot camp, when the film first premiered. So I missed out on all the hype & excitement. In the summer of '74, a friend dragged me to a theater to see it. Going in completely blind....I was totally freaked out. STILL traumatized 46 years later....LOL. The lack of any musical score kind of added to the feeling that it was real. Or that it could be possible.
The daughter coming down the stairs was actually a deleted scene
Put back in for the DVD release.
Yeah after she came down she actually crawl on the floor with a snake tounge it was very disturbing
An overlooked example of the excellent special effects in this movie is the appearance of Father Merrin, played by Max Von Sydow, who was only 44 in The Exorcist, but looked much much older! Incidentally, Max just passed away in 2020 at the age of 90!
I've thought about that when I learned his age, like, his performance alone is perfect (you can feel him struggling with age and sickness) but without the right makeup it wouldn't have been believable. For many years I believed he was already very old in The Exorcist! 😮
Linda Blair also does not get near enough credit for this role. She was robbed of the Oscar for best supporting actress presumably because it was revealed that a few of her scenes were subbed with a double. Well, you know, she still had to say all of her lines, all those obscenities that were eventually were replaced with the demon voice.
Fun fact: Renowned director Mike Nichols (The Graduate) was considered for the director’s spot for this film but turned it down as he felt a 12 year-old couldn’t possibly carry the movie. Linda Blair did a phenomenal job!
The voice of the demon was dubbed by the Academy Award winning actress Mercedes McCambridge. She was elderly by then. She smoked and drank booze to get her voice in shape for the role so to say. She wasn’t originally credited.
I LOVE all of you discussing classic movies. You guys know your stuff!! Thanx!
Oh God..Mike Nichols...the Graduate...so rewatchable...funny as hell...Fun Fact for You..
Anne Bancroft was only 6 years older than Dustin Hoffman...that's how well she developed the character of Mrs . ROBINSON...she was married to Mel Brooks. Their son wrote WORLD WAR Z....mike Nichols directed the Monty Python broadway musical SPAMALOT...I really enjoy you guys discussing classic film..
The first choices for Chris McNeil were Shirley Maclaine. Jane Fonda, and...Anne Bancroft Burstyn is who brings the personal realism to the role. THANX!!
Many of her scenes were done by a mannequin and a double.
You missed quite a few details, because you wouldn't stop talking.
Probably
@@FlixTalk that’s ok. This is the kind of movie that you spot things on second watch.
I think the problem some reactors have is that they try too hard to get ahead of the movie, instead of letting the movie come to them in time. It's really totally unnecessary, and in my opinion counterproductive, to try to figure out the movie in the first 10 minutes.
Fun fact the movie has a reputation for being actually cursed.
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Another "fun" film that's heavily cursed is The Omen.
An actual serial killer played one of the medical people doing the procedures. Later on, of course.
@@milescoburn1845 If there was ONE thing that your movie needed in order to raise it to the level of being "cursed"....an active serial killer as an extra would cement it forever in the "Legendary" category.👍
Yeah, that is "fun".
Movies from the seventies started the trend of dealing with divorce and single family homes. Interest in the occult was growing in the seventies, thus the popularity of the ouija board, which even had its own commercials, just like monopoly.
Exactly Kramer vs Kramer was one of the big ones my mom particularly enjoyed. Before that it was sort of taboo to showcase parents with multiple marriages or even broken families.
Ouija board IS just like Monopoly.
They are both games sold at toy stores.
I do not know how you have been able to pay attention to this film, if you have spoken at all times more than C3P0 .
I'd hate to be seating next to him in a theater.
@@1957tennis 😹😹😹
I find that, in a lot of these Exorcist reaction videos, people tend to talk a lot because they're frightened...like whistling in the dark.
@@Newton14alan EXACTLY!!!! And it's OK, I just wish they'd say I'm talking a lot cuz I'm nervous....
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best Sound Mixing and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was the first Horror film to win 4 Golden Globes including Best Picture in the Drama category.
Exactly. Not many horror movies are nominated for best picture let alone screenplay.
TO ME THE EXORCIST WAS ROBBED. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN DID A HELL OF A JOB DIRECTING THIS MOVIE. AND IT SHOULD HAVE WON FOR BEST PICTURE.
The movie is based on the book which is based on a true story that involved a 14 year old boy in Maryland back in 1949.
that even creeps me out more Ralph! DO you believe in the Ouija board???
@@LizEdwards Really? NASA? That's Cool!!!
Yeah -- and the whole "Is it a psychotic breakdown and a psychosomatic effect -- or an actual possession?" thing was a very big part of the story. The movie really leans into the "it was an actual possession" opinion, but the book's ambiguity was super creepy -- because it seems so much more "real" and "possible" if it's all in the kid's head.
@@FlixTalk I believe in the possibility of eventual possession by using it yes. It should really just be avoided.
I live in Cottage City, Maryland where the boy's house where the boy was born in. The house is just a few blocks away from me. I was told in 1949 strange things went on in that house. Today the house is remolded but I see tourist would come by driving the owner insane lol.
The male nurse who takes care of Regan is a real life serial killer. The director of this film, William Friedkin, interviewed him years later and it inspired him for his film Cruising with Al Pacino.
Omg are you serious ?
@@FlixTalk Yup, it's true. Another fun fact. Real corpses were used in Poltergeists.
@@sagittarius420cheefie wait what?! Is that true about Poltergeist? How can they get away with that
@@FlixTalk Yes. His name is Paul Bateson!
@@FlixTalk Yeah, it's true. I was way cheaper instead of having a bunch of individual skeletons made. And I guess the bodies were donated to science or something. But they were allowed to use them.
RUclips has guide line you have to follow , so you can't show this type of stuff . That's funny cause every other RUclips reaction of this movie did !
This is my first time at this channel and I absolutely loved your reaction. I'm guessing that you saw the director's cut which is the version you've never seen because in the original film which is the copy that I have, some of those scenes that you felt the movie didn't need had gotten cut out for that reason about 15-20 minutes worth. This is one of my favorites though and remains one of my go to movies when I'm not sure what to watch but I want to be scared. Again, loved your reaction and I think I might subscribe!
Hey thanks! I really liked the movie alot and yes it was the directors copy. And thank you again for the sub! More first time watches coming in the next few days!
My first experience of “The Exorcist” phenomenon was when I was in Air Force Tech School in Denver, Colorado in 1973 - 1974.
I remember lines to get into the theater stretching around the block. Sitting in the full theater (not one of those little pillbox theaters at malls) with my Air Force buddies as the movie played out. Various jump scares happened (although we didn’t call them that at the time) and there were yelps from the audience. And then THAT scene (with the crucifix) came on, and people gasped. At one point, a friend of mine, a big strapping, Air Force guy, pretty much moaned, “Don’t go up those stairs”. Because we all knew, when someone went up those stairs, we were going to see something bad happen.
And it’s just gotten worse with the reworked version where they’ve added a few scenes (the “spider-walk”). Brrrrr!
The first medical procedure shown in the movie is a cerebral angiography. It’s a procedure where a dye is injected into the carotid artery which shows up on x-rays, showing the blood vessels in the brain. It can be used to find abnormalities in the brain. Supposedly, medical professionals have praised it for its realism.
Regan's demon voice was Hollywood actress Mercedes McCambridge considered the world's greatest radio actress. She had to go through extreme measures and rituals to achieve that voice
Oh wow! Good info thank you
Wow all these years I thought it was a man's voice.
Check out the recent documentary called "Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist"...Friedkin talks about what Mercedes MaCambridge went through in order to create the demonic voice...She was a recovering alcoholic and former smoker but to achieve this effect she began drinking again, smoked cigarettes again and ate raw eggs...
McCambridge also had to go to court to have her contribution to the film acknowledged. In the original prints her name did not even appear in the credits. She did have a really unique voice though. Quite elfin and gravelly
I saw this when
i was 11 years old when I saw this. Had nightmares for months. Still think Linda Blair deserved a lifetime achievement award for pulling this part of so well from back in 1973. Freaking crazy for that era.
Exorcist III: Legion was the only decent sequel, because it came from the same author.
2 is so appallingly bad it's virtually a comedy.
@@theradgegadgie6352: Couldn’t agree more.
The Exorsist 3 is a really good movie
Father karris was the Gemini killer
@@markoconnor4110: Fr. Karas was possessed by the spirit of the Gemini Killer. He, himself, was not the Gemini Killer.
I just noticed even the dummy head of Regan, during the 360 degree head turn, was visibly breathing in that cold room. Such attention to detail.
This Movie Looks Absolutely Disturbing
It was!
Never gets old watching people freak out over this.
This has really stood the test of time. People still get freaked out by this movie, and next year is the 50th anniversary!
Before The Exorcist in 1973, the most advanced horror films, and my two top favorites, were The War Of The Worlds (1953) and The Blob (1958).
The blob was amazing! Can you believe i saw that this year for the first time too lol
That sounds like a specific American film point of view though.
Ftr..have you seen the criterion collection of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. The always-way-too-obvious wires that supported the Martian war machines have been cleaned out,making it perfect. It is beautiful!!
Keep in mind that the original version that came out back in 1973 that most people are used to seeing had many extras as far as footage cut out to begin with so this version and other versions on RUclips trust me are the shorter versions. This movie had a lot of movie still shots and believe it or not Twins Of Evil had a lot of still shots that were never in the movie as well and originally had an X rating and ironically that one dealt with evil but in a different form such as vampires, witch hunts, seductions etc...
he seem to talk over 99% of the dialogue.
What's also creepy is the fact that there's a Ouija board in the house and no one knows where it came from!!
This movie was so good because the person who wrote the book wrote the screen play that's why is so good
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When this movie was made, an Ouija board was considered just another board game, like Monopoly. Perhaps things changed after this movie? You're not the first reactor to be taken aback by its appearance. Best. Leo.
Ouija Boards (Or Spirit Boards) have been around for centuries - A similar type of device was used by the Egyptians, Romans, Hebrews and others Thousands of years ago. When Spirit Boards became popular in the early 1900’s in America they were mostly home made or handmade by individuals for sale or their own use. One type made by William Fuld was called a ‘OUIJA’ (Oui - French for ‘YES’ and ‘JA’ German for ‘YES’ a yes, yes, Board or ‘Answer’ Board) which he very successfully marketed in the early 1920’s and was bought by Parker Brothers and sold as a ‘Game’ although there have been many reports of mysterious and even supernatural events, some by police or other authorities or very reliable people connected with its use.
Just so you know.....this movie is based on real events which happened to a 12 yr old boy in Cottage City, Maryland. They used a girl for the movie to bring a MUCH more dramatic effect. When I saw this movie in 1973 I couldn't sleep right for 2 weeks.
Makes it even more terrifying
I remember I saw it on tv some years later in the 80's, and as a kid into adulthood I couldn't get her face off the back of my eye lids. Whenever I heard it on tv from another room, while I'm trying to sleep, I'd be having real time nightmares. The only thing they didn't have in the version I saw, was the edited part of her walking backwards down the stairs. I heard they put that in the test run screenings, but because that was too much for people in combination of everything else, they took it out before major theater distribution. I saw it with that scene when an anniversary special released it added. Freaked me out even more.
This is the Champion of scary movies, for me.
The demon didn't have other souls trapped with it in her. It can read minds and mess with you and make you see.
The demon knew the old father from a previous encounter. He knew who that demon artifact was to. There was also a charm piece that was found with the artifact. It came in the mail on a charm bracelet, I believe. Reagan wore it. She found that Ouijaboard and it gave that demon a direct pipeline to a body to possess. And it almost seemed like the demon was waiting for that old priest for a rematch.
I know I saw this on tv in the 80's minus a scene or two they had edited out until they rereleased it for an anniversary edition. The backwards crawling was cut from the original after tested movie goers said it was too much on top of too much happening. I saw a documentary on it.
Her face was burned into the back of my eyelids for years into my adulthood, whenever I heard that music, saw or heard clips of it in the background on tv, or when Halloween season came around.
This movie is iconic!! The mother of all horror films!! I watched this when I was a kid! Gave me nightmares for weeks!! Still makes me cringe today!! 😬😱😱
my grandma used to play the ouija board with me when i was a young kid, and we kept it in the closet in the bedroom.. i used to sometimes hide in the same closet, and a couple times i got some strange feelings of a presence of a girl in there with me, and some other older people.. by presence, i mean i suddenly felt like i wasnt alone in the closet, and i got a flash of an image in my mind of a girl close to my age, and a vague others like adults.. so i got creeped out and stayed out of the closet for a while.. then one night shortly after, i was sliding around in the kitchen floor on my back, and i looked over into the ajoining room, and in the dark i could see an actual person slowely walking across the room, and as it walked in front of the window, i could see it was the figure of a man, but it had no face or hair.. like a guy covered in dark shiny rubber.. and then i heard a mans voice as if it was right next to my ear, saying 'i want to hurt you, but i cant' and then he laughed, and i took off and told my family, but when they checked there was nothing there
I saw this when it was released in 1973. I was 8 years old. And psychiatrists wonder why we blame our mothers for our emotional issues. I had nightmares for years. Did I mention I grew up Catholic? By the way, I like your review and reaction. Interesting how this movie stands the test of time.
Wow! Thank you for sharing that moment with me. Yes , once again , I can totally understand children being scared from watching this
That's why it carried a bloody X rating. No non-adults should be allowed in to see that sort of film.
How did you get in? It was an R rated movie.
@@milescoburn1845 this was back in the day of drive in theaters, I was in the back of a station wagon under a blanket, though I'm guessing that wouldn't have mattered, the people working the booth taking money as you drive in were usually high school kids
MAN, they don't make em' like this anymore!!
These days, they're played too safe and made too sanitized with jump scares galore. I want this type of horror back!!
I highly recommend Exorcist III ... its really really facinating. Well made, well thought of (skip exorcist 2 at all cost ... awful awful cash grab !!)
12:01 when regan hits her mother across the room, you see the actress land and reach for her lower back while screaming. This was a real reaction to getting hurt while being pulled (by a hidden wire) to the ground, the actress suffered a permanent back injury
I believe the medical procedure you see at around 8:20 is contrast fluid injection in her neck so that the x-ray machine can get a clearer image of the various vessels in her brain. Thus the large syringe is synchronized to the images triggered by the larger device - injecting a bit of contrast fluid as each picture is taken.
Today we can use MRI etc for this purpose. But we still do a very similar thing when we take images of the heart - where you have a long tube inserted in your groin or in your wrist and then feed through your vessels until it reaches the heart where it injects contrast fluid for imaging.
A tracheotomy (that you mention) is a much larger opening in the neck that lets you breath if the passage is blocked above it.
The crucifix scene is hard to watch.
Yes , painful!
Dimmy asked the demon to possess him and leave poor Reagan, then the Demon was trying to make him kill Reagan, and he killed himself to try to end it
Here's a fun fact about the movie the statue that father Marin saw pazuzu was actually made out of Styrofoam and it was windy when they were shooting and if you look you can actually see a hand holding it down there was somebody behind there holding it down to the kept blowing over
I saw this movie in 1973 when it was released, many ppl left 3/4 to half way through the movie in the theater when I saw it I saw a woman sitting a few seats up from me and she blew chunks and got help to leave cause she couldn't watch the rest,its one of a kind movie Linda blair was best 4 the lead roll no other actresses could have done it as good I was 14yrs old when I was it in the movie theater in 1973
Hey, man --- @ the 11:00 minute mark, the doctor did not state that he believes that she is possessed. He basically stated that SHE probably believes that she is possessed, therefore SHE might believe that an exorcism can cure her possession. Basically, the doctor was referring to the 'placebo effect'. If a patient believes that a placebo cocktail-drink would cure them of their disease (even an imaginary disease of the mind), then at times those patients can be cured...even if the placebo was just water and sugar. This is why pharmaceutical companies take into account the 'placebo effect' when they are testing new drug formulations etc.
In controlled studies, there is always a group of test subjects who are given a placebo, while other test subjects are given the actual drug that's being tested --- and then ultimately the researchers measure the results to measure any statistical significance between the results of those that were given the placebo versus those who were given the drug that's being developed.
This movie alone changed the horror movie genre that we see today. There were some demonic movies like Rosemary’s Baby but this shocked people back then. There is a line in this movie that alway stuck with men. Father Karras tries to tell Father Merrin about the difference personalities in Regan and Merrin says there is only one. He says the demon will always trick you with lies and the truth.
I was born in 1971 and I was not allowed to watch this as a kid or teen. Actually I had not seen the whole movie til I was 48. I just actively avoided seeing it but decided I would like to see it all the way thru.
love when the demon says "U abandoned your mother! left her alone to die!"
father damien: SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love this film, it was so raw, so ahead of its time , i get goosebumps everytime i watch. The best horror film ever!
This movie scared the sh** out of me as a 9 year old in 73. I didn’t see it until I was 15, but the TV and news paper ads scared me. It’s been my all time favorite horror movie ever since. The house and those infamous stairs still stand here in DC .
This movie was ground breaking and nothing had come out quite like it. The graphic nature of the movie was also groundbreaking. People were actually passing out, throwing up or just getting up and walking out because they couldn't handle it. This was the birth of the possession movies. That loud procedure was an MRI. NO CGI, just practical effects. Thanks 👍😄
I watched 1985 with my whole family 12 in the afternoon all lights on
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And still it didn't give you peace of sleep at night. 😂
1973, wow, hard to believe The Exorcist is nearly 50 years old. Another R-rated movie I as a child/young teen had to experience in heavily-edited form during its premiere on broadcast television 📺. It wasn't until the mid-80s that I finally saw the theatrical version in its entirety on VHS tape. Ghoulish makeup effects, creepy voices, and that super-eerie score made that movie, in my opinion. I recently watched the first season of The Exorcist TV series and thought it was well-done. You can find that, along with season 2, on Hulu. And I understand that Blumhouse is going into production on a movie remake.
Why doesn't anyone watch Exorcist III with George C. Scott, it's not as in your face shocking gore, but far more unnerving and creepier than the original, and it will keep you glued to the edge of your seat.
I think the reason you think there should've been more deleted scenes is because you watched the longer director's cut, not the theatrical cut. Good reaction video!
Ellen Burstyn is one of the BEST actresses to grace a screen.
Your AMAZING lisp is one of the three main reasons I subscribed to your channel.. I LOVE your voice!!!
The special effects department should have mixed tapioca pudding in with the pea soup to make it really look as if Ragin blew chunks.
The Iraq scene implies that the demon/ evil has existed even from the primordial past. Fr Merrin has done exorcism before and possibly met this demon. The battle between and the demon will conclude in this movie.
Aside from demon possession it's a story of the priest seeking redemption and made the ultimate sacrifice. Fr khais faith was terribly weakened due to the guilt from his mother's death. His redemption came when Regan's mother desperately asked if her daughter will die. Realizing that he could not allow another tragedy to happen Fr Kharis returned to the room determined to save the child from the demon. This regained his strength and faith. NOTE : Back then Catholics believed suicide is a sin. So the scene where Fr Kharis confesses his sin before he dies was necessary in order for him to received salvation. Yes the Demon did not die that's why you need to watch part 3.
The medallion for Catholics are like icons and signs that remind or visually give us direction to God. In the final scene the possessed girl /demon actually REMOVED it from Fr. Damian so it could transfer it's spirit to the priest and possessed him
Please watch EXORCIST III . Considered a direct sequel and a conclusion. It will suppose to answer some questions. Skip part 2-- Not that good
12:20 -- This was rated R so kids didn't watch this in the 70s unless their parent or guardian took them to see it.
@@BlackavarWD I stand corrected. R ratings were created in 1968.
And the mother has no religious beliefs... she didn’t even know the difference between holy water and tap water...
Every parent whose child has turned 13 knows how this all feels
Bro, I swear, with the crucifixion scene, when the mother actually hurts herself when she screams, the girl playing reagan breaks her act for a second. The look of "woah, you okay tho?" Could be me looking to deep into it.
One of the best faithful religious movies and one of the best movies of all time .
Man, I was 16 when this came out..Me and some of my buddies got in to see it. We knew one of the ushers in our local theater, gave him a couple of bucks, and he opened a side door for us..We sat in the 2nd row, where most people don't want to sit, looking almost straight up..(BTW, we smoked a bit before going in. Talk about paranoia!)...Anyway, all I can tell you is it scared the living crap out of us!..Remember, there wasn't ANYTHING like this before it..About the scariest was Rosemary's baby..Good movie, but nothing as crazy as this!..All I remember thinking was.."Oh shit, do NOT go into that room again!"..It was late, walking home that night, and I had to go part of the way ALONE. This is when I believed in all this stuff...I was jumping at my own shadow; leaves blowing out in front of me...I didn't sleep much that night..Lol!..Now I just look at it as a really well made movie, for it's time.
Haha wow what a story! Thanks for sharing
I were 14 years old! I didn't sleep for days.
"You better level up that faith" the next sunday sermon.
William Friedkin put his actors through hell but he made a classic. You watched the directors cut so that might be why you felt it could use a little trimming.
You should watch The Exorcist 3 (1990) too and bring us your reaction!
I was 13 when this came out and it haunted me for a decade. Still holds the same impact as it did in the 70’s. So far, nothing compares to it.
Seen it in ‘73 ,six times in theaters . Thats how much I liked it. What you saw was a directors cut ,longer and than the theater release. Was nominated for an oscar for Best Movie, I was really disappointed it didn’t win.
I was 14 when I saw it, I had to sleep with my mom for years after. I remember people running out of the theater. My mom wouldn't let me go see it... so I went to a friends house and her mother took us... lesson learned, my mom knew what she was talking about.
I'm different when this part comes out...…..I'm thinking; 'Break out the Ouija board.' LOL
Oh BTW: The medical assistant in the hospital scenes turned out to be a real life serial killer.
I saw The Exorcist in 1984. I was just turning 18, graduating from an all boys Jesuit high school. 12 years of Catholic school will set your mind a certain way.
This film scared the crap out of me.....and anyone else I can sucker into watching😁!
Crazy thing about this movie is that one of the techs during the testing scene is a suspected serial killer. He killed at least one person that they know of.
Someone else said this as well....insane!
Ah, the re-release with extra scenes versus the original theater version.
I really enjoyed your reaction to this and your appreciation of the film. I’ve seen a lot of people react to The Exorcist lately and it’s interesting to see some people go with the original version while others like yourself watch the version with the added scenes like the spiderwalk and special effects with the demon’s face popping up in places. I prefer the original. The spiderwalk looked silly to me and the faces added were unnecessary. I did like the added conversation between Merrin and Karras though. Anyway, good stuff 👍
Hey thanks! Glad you enjoyed my commentary! Hope you could sub and join the flix talk family! I have more first times coming!
@@FlixTalk I definitely subscribed! 👍
The movie is based on true events, the voice of Lucifer was played by a great radio voice actress Mercades Macambridge one one could do that voice better then she sadly she passed away a few yrs ago she was great
1.Father Merrin is taking tiny doses of nitroglycerin to ease his angina (heart pains). My mother did the same. Maybe they treat it differently now.
2. Tubular Bells cane before the 1978 Halloween theme. In theaters a lot of people yelled "Rip off!"
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When I was first becoming a movie fan sometimes older people in my family would say something like "If you liked that movie you should watch" and then they'd name an older classic movie of that type. It turns out that almost all the movies i had been watching were copycats/remakes/inspired by older movies. That's why I can understand why if someone is a horror movie fan today, they might not have seen some of the older classics yet. Not everyone starts their love of movies with the old classics. The only potential downside is newer movies can be more graphic, which makes older movies feel more tame. That's not a problem with The Exorcist though!
The first x-ray exam she received with the needle going into her neck was called an arteriogram which has now been replaced with the MRI. You still get the pounding noise but you are given earplugs or a choice of listening to music on earbuds. There's no more use of the needle in the neck since they lay you on a table, the table moves into this cylindrical machine and in 12 minutes they have an entire x-ray of your brain. The second one with the camera moving above her is a primitive form of the CT Scan. The one with the fluid they inject into your body is called a CT Angio. Kids were not permitted to see this film due to the rating R but if you were 16 you got in; younger you had to be accompanied by an older adult or you had to get written permission from your parents or guardian. I knew a lot of Catholic kids in my school were told by their parents and their church leaders not to see the film but I know some of them got in the theatre. The first time I saw it was when it first came out. I was 17 and a film critic for my high school newspaper. I gave it 5 out 5 stars. People were fainting, crying, vomiting, and walking out of the movie and never coming back. All in all, I've seen this film about 48 times and it still holds me in awe.
Obviously you're a medical worker...I'm an xray technologist just retired, and you're spot on...the pounding was a heavy machine on rollers called a Franklin film changer; injection was with a Medrad programmable injector, and the Franklin was so loud! the second test was (I'm fairly sure) was called a pneumoencephalogram.
Instead of a liquid contrast. Air was injected into the ventricles of the brain..I hope that's right. I did hundreds of carotid arteriograms but never even saw the pneumoencephalogram.. the MRI's and cat's are so much less invasive. Thank you
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@@rt3593 Thank you for your reply and the compliment but, no, I'm not a medical worker. I had a mild TIA in December 2014 something I never experienced before in my life and I wanted to find out what was going on. I learned all about the MRI, CT Scan, and the CT Angio from my Neurologist who was the chief of Neurology at the hospital. (I also had a TEE as you know it's called Transesophageal echocardiography). It's amazing when one has such a frightening health event how much they get to know what's going on and, once out of the hospital, I indulged myself on my Chromebook to look up everything that I had. I went back to watching The Exorcist months later and made the connection to all of Regan's exams but you threw me on the pneumoencephalogram which you were spot on with that. Now I learned something else but, fortunately, that procedure is no longer used. Thank God for modern medical equipment. Things seemed so barbaric back in 1973.
@@washo2222 well, that was certainly a frightening education for you. Hope you're continuing in good health..a TIA is a punch on the stomach holycrap situation
MANY HORROR FILMS TO WATCH:
1. Psycho (1960) or Psycho 2
2. The Shining (1980)
3. The Thing (1982)
4. The Exorcist (1973)
5. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
6. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
7. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
8. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
9. Let the Right One In (2008)
10. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
11. Nosferatu (1922)
12. Dawn of the Dead (1978) or the remake
13. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
14. The Innocents (1961)
15. Get Out (I) (2017)
16. HATCHET PART 1
17. HATCHET PART 3
18. VICTOR CROWLEY
19. BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON
20. Evil Dead II (1987)
21. Halloween (1978)
22. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
23. Train to Busan (2016)
24. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
25. 28 Days Later
26. 28 Weeks Later
27. The Skin I Live In (2011)
28. Zombieland (2009)
29. Zombieland: Double Tap
30. Saw (2004)
31. Army of Darkness
32. The Void
33. Let Us Prey
34. Last Shift
35. The Others (2001)
36. Lady in White
37. The Fly (1986)
38. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
39. The Birds (1963)
40. A Quiet Place (2018)
41. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
42. The Conjuring (2013)
43. Grindhouse (2007)
44. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
45. The Crow (1994)
46. Dead Alive (1992)
47. Candyman 1992
48. Candyman 2021
49. Scream part 1
50. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
51. The Omen (1976)
52. The Wicker Man (1973)
53. Deep Red (1975)
54. Night of the Demons 1986
55. Night of the Demons part 2
56. Prom Night 1 1980
57. Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou
58. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
59. The Wailing (2016)
60. REC (2007)
61. The Descent
62. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
63. The Orphanage (2007)
64. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
65. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
66. Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)
67. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
68. Carrie (1976)
69. The Haunting (1963)
70. The Bad Seed or its remake (1956)
71. Hereditary (2018)
72. Ready or Not
73. The Babysitter part 1
74. Better Watch Out
75. Krampus
76. Doctor Sleep (2019)
77. Split (IX) (2016)
78. It (I) (2017)
79. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
80. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
81. Gremlins (1984)
82. Poltergeist (1982)
83. Possession (1981)
84. House part 1 1986
85. Suspiria (1977)
86. Ringu (1998)
87. Cube (1997)
88. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
89. Deathwatch
90. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
91. Outpost part 1
92. Dead Snow part 1
93. Dead Snow part 2
94. Dead Silence
95. They Live (1988)
96. The Lost Boys (1987)
97. Angel Heart (1987)
98. The Dead Zone (1983)
99. The Changeling (1980)
100. Don't Look Now (1973)
101. The Cursed 2021
102. Last Night in Soho (2021)
103. Midsommar (2019)
104. The Black Phone 2022
105. Don't Breathe (2016)
106. The Mist (2007)
107. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
108. The Frighteners (1996)
109. Audition (1999)
110. Timecrimes (2007)
111. Fright Night (1985) or its remake
112. Green Room (2015)
113. The Platform (2019)
114. The Sadness 2022
115. Stir of Echoes (1999)
116. The Monster Squad (1987)
117. Near Dark (1987)
118. Hellraiser (1987)
119. Us (II) (2019)
120. The Babadook (2014)
121. Sinister (I) (2012)
122. Insidious (I) (2010)
123. 1408 (2007)
124. Dog Soldiers (2002)
125. Ginger Snaps (2000)
126. Creepshow (1982)
127. Prince of Darkness (1987)
128. Night of the Creeps (1986)
129. V/H/S/94 (2021)
130. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
131. The Mortuary Collection (2019)
132. Fear Street Part One: 1994
133. Fear Street Part Two: 1978
134. Fear Street Part Three: 1666
135. The Brood (1979)
136. House on Haunted Hill (1959) or its remake
137. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
138. The Gift (2000)
139. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
140. Terrifier (2016)
141. Psycho Goreman (2020)
142. Happy Death Day (2017)
143. Hush (I) (2016)
144. Overlord (2018)
145. Infrared = 2022 film A paranormal investigator and his production crew gain access to a mysterious, abandoned school but when the thrilling haunt turns deadly, the team must race to uncover the terrifying truth before they become the school's next victims.
146. What Josiah Saw = 2022 film. A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
147. Hypochondriac = In this 2022 film The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
148. Resurrection 2022 = In the film Margaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.
149. The Witch (2015)
150. Trollhunter (2010)
151. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
152. 30 Days of Night (2007)
153. Event Horizon (1997)
154. Child's Play (1988)
155. The Blob (1988)
156. The Night Flier
157. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
158. Demons (1985)
159. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
160. Crimson Peak (2015)
161. Glorious (2022)
162. Puppet Master 1
163. Puppet Master 2
164. Puppet Master 3
165. Laid to Rest 1
166. Laid to Rest 2
167. Killer Klowns From Outer Space
168. The Unholy
169. Vicious Fun (2021)
170. Let the Wrong One In (2022)
171. Return of the Living Dead 3
172. Hellraiser 2: Hellbound
173. Barbarian 2022
174. House of Darkness 2022
175. The Bad Seed Returns 2022
176. Tiny Cinema 2022
177. The Red Book Ritual 2022 - This film is a tumultuous wild horror film with some dark stories.
178. Tales of Halloween
179. Child's Play 2
180. Terror Train
181. Fear of Clowns (2004)
182. Fear of Clowns 2 (2007)
183. Midnight Ride (1990)
184. Terrifier 2 (2022)
185. Hellraiser (2022)
186. Sissy (2022)
187. Hocus Pocus 1
188. Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
189. My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)
190. Ghoulies part 2
191. Ghoulies part 1
192. The Addams Family (1991)
193. Addams Family Values (1993)
194. Death Becomes Her
195. The Witches (1990)
196. The Keep (1983)
197. Paperhouse (1988)
198. The Exorcist 3: Legion
199. Phantasm part 1
200. Phantasm part 2
201. Dead and Buried
202. The Silence of the Lambs
203. Seven
204. Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
205. Among the Living (2022)
206. Deadstream (2022)
207. Spirit Halloween (2022) = This is a Halloween film for kids that can be watched alongside The Monster Squad, The Gate part 1, The Gate II: Trespassers from (1990) and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
208. Bitch Ass with Tony Todd (2022)
209. The Accursed 2022
210. The Cottage (2008)
211. The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022) =The Loneliest Boy in the World is a fun morbid horror comedy that has not only wit and charm, but brings a memorable viewing experience.
212. Botched (2008)
213. The Fear 2: Halloween Night
214. ParaNorman (2012)
215. Jeepers Creepers 1
216. Jeepers Creepers 2
217. The Prowler
218. Superstition 2 (1989) Aka; Witch Story
219. Silent Hill part 1
220. Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders (2022)
221. The Unseen (1980)
222. Slayers (2022) with Thomas Jane
223. Hounded (2022)
224. Offspring (2009)
225. The Resurrected with Chris Sarandon
226. Demons 1
227. Demons 2
228. The Innkeepers
229. Keep my Grave Open (1976)
230. MANDRAKE (2022)
231. Friday the 13th part 2
232. Friday the 13th part 4: The Final Chapter
233. Friday the 13th: Jason Lives
234. Midnight Movie (2008)
235. Astonishing Tales Of Terror: Rocktapussy! (2022)
236. Night Warning
237. The Woman in Black part 1 (2012)
238. Nocebo (2022)
239. Girls School Screamers (1985)
240. Star Time (1991)
241. Mute Witness (1995)
242. American Carnage (2022 Hulu)
243. Tobe Hooper’s Night Terrors
244. Darby and the Dead (2022 Hulu)
245. My Demon Lover (1987)
246. Prison (1987)
247. Bed Rest (2022 with Melissa Barrera)
248. Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
249. Aftermath (2014)
250. Daylight's End (2016)
251. Blind Date (also known as Deadly Seduction) is a 1984 independent film which stars
Kirstie Alley
252. Husk (2011)
253. Far From Home (1989)
254. The Wrong House (2012) with Marc Singer
255. The Apology (2022)
256. The Fireplace (2022)
257. The Last Will And Testament Of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
258. A Haunting At The Rectory (2015)
259. Haunting Of Number #24 (also known as Lie Still from 2005)
260. Freehold (2017)
261. Megan 2023
262. Two Witches (2022)
263. Something in the Dirt (2022)
264. Snow Falls (2023)
265. There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)
266. Sick (2022)
267. Teen Wolf: The Movie 2023
268. All Eyes (2023)
269. Infinity Pool (2023)
270. Devil Beneath (2023)
271. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
272. Knuckleball (2018)
273. Bleed (2022)
274. Knock at the Cabin (2023)
275. She Came from the Woods (2023)
276. The Visitors (1988)
277. I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
278. The Offering (2022)
279. Spoonful of Sugar (2022)
280. The Boneyard (1991)
281. Unwelcome (2023)
282. 'Wolf' (1994)
283. Tales of Terror (1964)
284. Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)
285. Twice-Told Tales (1963)
286. Leave (2022)
287. Unseen (2023)
288. Dust Devil (1992)
289. Exquisite Tenderness (1995)
290. Renfield (2023)
291. Evil Dead Rise (2023)
292. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
293. You're Killing Me (2023)
294. The Tank (2023)
295. Fear (2023)
296. Clock (2023)
297.Shepherd (2021)

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the guy who played Fr Dyer is actually a Jesuit priest and he taught Phillip Seymore Hoffman in High School in Rochester, NY
And Thomas Bermingham, who played the older priest who talks to Father Karras in the bar, was a real priest who taught William Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist."
Saw this movie in the early 80s when it had re-premier at cinemas. I was 14 years old and had nightmares for weeks after that horror-experience. The movie is still very creepy but also a great masterpiece.👌👍
This is like a commentary rather than a reaction video. You talk more than react to the movie. 😒 atleast you enjoyed it anyway.
Ha, I just decided to do this one, bro, I know it's an old video but this was great. As usual: thanks!
One of the extras in the hospital scenes was convicted in 1979 (6 years after this movie) of being a SERIAL KILLER - Paul Bateson!
That is insane!
It's nice that you gave your analysis of the movie at the end and seemed to have a good appreciation of it. As some others have said, I find that by speaking so much during the movie, it seems like you're not listening to the dialogue closely and are missing some of the details and are mainly absorbing the movie visually rather than through the script, so are projecting your own meaning onto it. It's up to you how you do your reactions of course, but maybe try just watching and then give your comments at the end to see if it helps you notice more and appreciate the hidden depths of a movie.
19:04 He did one of the most impressive sacrificies on movie history :'( it's pretty sad, he was so brave 💙
What you watched was the 2000 "Version You've Never Seen," which added at least 11 minutes of footage that wasn't included in the original 1973 (including the famous "spider walk" scene), so when you mention that they should've shortened the film a little--they did!
He fell down the Joker steps. Hilarious.
i lived near DC at that time. my boyfriend and i (HS) were both from very Roman Catholic families AND went to catholic schools. he took me to GEORGETOWN to see it. while it scared me in the theater, it terrified me at night for years. i have since seen it many many x and i can look at it mostly as filmmaking now. btw our nuns used to tell us about the real story of the boy in maryland this was based upon.
Thats terrifying!
I was 11 the first time I watched this, but it was the edited version on TV back in 79/80. It scared me, and gave me nightmares for awhile. I slept with the lights on for the rest of the week.
a lot of people who watched this in theaters in the 70's ran out screaming and puking
The song is not from Halloween movie. It's a great song of Mike Oldfield, Tubullar Bells. My gosh.
You commented about ‘kids watching this in the 1979s)... well, no (not generally anyway), as it was an ‘X’ certificate (‘18’). Times were different then... there weren’t the many options in accessing movies as there are now, only the cinema.
In/around 1975 (a couple of years after its original release), I sneaked into the cinema with my cousin. I was 16. I went home that winter’s (dark) night to an empty house as my parents were out. I was terrified.
Even to this day, I consider it the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the combination of the supernatural with the psychological that creates its magic formula.
People were walking out the the cinema and fainting, it’s on RUclips
That's crazy!