Pazuzu is the name of an actual demon though. Not high tier mind you but a common demon with considerable force. I mean I guess their our scarier versions of demons but he is the demon of pestilence, and wind.
OTOH, there are lots of demons mentioned in the Bible, and even more if you start digging into Jewish lore. Someone still deliberately choose "Pazuzu" when there were much better options on the table.
And just like a lot of "demons" in christian lore, it is not a demon at all but a mesopotamian deity. Specifically, a deity of the wind that, ironically for this movie, protected people against evil spirits. If they took demons for their movie, true demons like those in the Goetia ( and still for the most part they are deity that have been demonized ), it would be less laughable to people with a little knowledge.
@@gabrieldoyen692 Two things: 1) In Christianity there is a believe that pagan religions are controlled by demons, but those are still devils working undercover. There is no real reason why any pagan deity would be true in context of Christianity, and if that would undermine whole religion. It in fact could be interesting idea to undermine priest believe by devil, but it never was used properly undermining constancy of the series. 2) Geotia and true demons? Geotia is one of most out of ass demonology works ever made. Even most people who do believe in those stuff ignore it as valuable source.
@@TheRezro When I say "true" demon, I expressed myself poorly. I meant, "original/fresh/new" demons, that are not just demonized versions of other religions. Because really, there are a some really interesting demons in those.
This comment saved me from going on a dangerous rant about this re upload I almost bit his head off because this has been re up'd atleast more than 4 times now
I feel so bad that critic has to reupload certain videos, but I feel good that he's doing it to bring back some of our favorite nostalgia critic reviews
Hey critic, just thought I'd let you know Pazuzu wasn't this films choice. You see Pazuzu is an actual Mesopotamian demon and while this demon isn't mentioned by name in the first film they're actually statues of the demon sprinkled into the first film notably during the exorcism scene where Regan reaches out to a statue of Pazuzu
It's in the book. The evil against evil comment in the movie is a hint that it;s Pazuzu.. Pazuzu actually protects pregnant mothers and their children against his rival demon Lamashtu who ironically is the one who steals children.
Yeah, but the point is that they were making a film for the American market. Since they were making up a story, they probably should have picked or created a different name that actually sounded intimidating. It works so well in Futurama even if you don't know the reference because it sounds both ancient and silly at the same time. In this case it is about appearances not substance, it's not a documentary. If you have to explain the reference to the general audience for a plot point to work, then take out or change the reference.
I once played a drinking game with this movie: every time Richard Burton says "eeeevil", you do a shot. Handy tip: Do not do this. I passed out halfway through the movie. Fitting, though - word has it Burton was drunk for most of the shoot.
Pazuzu, that's the name of the Professor's gargoyle in Futurama and the demon that possessed Maggie in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXVIII (28), "The Exor-Sis."
It may have been like Linda. The s riot was completely different when they signed up. It was later changed so much it became unrecognisable. They continued rewriting during filming. Since they'd already signed they couldn't back out. So, his role may have originally been larger, and when they cut it he couldn't get out of it
@@DreamBeliefisn't changing the script to the point where it was a very different story and no longer what they actually agreed to grounds for invalidating such a contract?
It's weird how people say Pazuzu is a weird name. It is a demon from ancient Mesopotamian religion who was the king of wind demons wielding the power of storms and droughts. Locust isn't too far a stretch BUT is sometimes protecting people from evil spirits in some versions of the mythology.
What does any of that have to do with it being a weird name? I met a Chinese lady named "Dung" once, no joke. The fact that it's "real" doesn't make it sound any less funny.
In any case, it does sound suspiciously similar to the MGM roar, particularly the '09 logo. Maybe they recycled it. They were clearly struggling financially, it could make sense.
No one, Doug just wants to re-upload all of his old videos to his newer audience for that extra cash! It’s stupid how nobody has realized this shit but me! 😑
Only referring to Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched was a thing of beauty! Sad that she did such a great job in that role that it typcasted her. It would be like if you kept referring to James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom or Darth Vader Also if you ever do Exorcist 3 please have a reference to the infamous “Turn it off!” scene from Hard Core. In fact that would work for most of the movies reviewed not just ones with George C Scott.
Funny that you brought up Hardcore. Director Paul Schrader later directed Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, the version that got rejected and completely refilmed as Exorcist The Beginning.
@@Luka-zi9kv She should have been around 14 when the first movie came out. She was born 59 and the movie came out 74 or something. Childactors can be a pain in the ass for everyone so usualy they take an actor somewhat older than the character to play.
i know that thing that kid is swinging around isnt actually a slingshot its some kind of circular ring that makes a sound that apperantly repels bugs. anyone know what its called?
Honestly, this film is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's so weird, surreal and dream-like that it almost feels like a Kubrickian drug-trip. Yeah, it has its flaws, but it's part of its charm.
Did I miss it, or did you actually leave out the tapdancing scene? One of the most relentlessly hilarious, for all the wrong reasons, scenes ever filmed?
"Pazuzu doesn't sound scary." You know, on that note, I always wondered how people were frightened by "Beelzebub". Like, it sounds like a bumblebee version of Wolverine, but apparently people learn to "fear the wrath of Beelzebub". At least Pazuzu has a longer history back to Babylon.
Every time I remember this film is a thing I am sad that the cool concepts such as the 'Universal consciousness' thing and the callback to Pazuzu's actual role within the Sumerian mythology (I believe Blatty might have chosen him for the demon within Regan in the novel because some sources regard him as 'King of the Wind Demons' which is really cooler than it sounds when you consider context) and KICKASS soundtrack had to be wasted on something that is underwhelming at best.
Troubled Production: Friedkin and writer William Peter Blatty were repeatedly asked for ideas for a sequel but turned the studio down on finding out that the producer assigned the project, Richard Lederer, wanted them to just make a quick-and-dirty sequel to exploit the first film's success. Instead, a screenplay was commissioned from William Goodhart, whose only other screenplay credit was the obscure 1969 film Generation; the exact contents of Goodhart's screenplay have never been made publicly known, but apparently mixed in the first film's themes with a lot of odd metaphysical symbolism. The studio then hired John Boorman to direct the film - an odd choice when you consider that he actually disliked the first film, and was more interested in the metaphysical aspects of Goodhart's script than any of the actual Christian themes. Boorman and co-writer Rospo Pallenberg then pretty much scrubbed all the remaining Christian elements from the script, leaving it barely recognisable as an Exorcist sequel. They then had to perform further last-minute rewrites which swapped out Regan's mother Chris for Sharon, the nanny from the first film, after Ellen Burstyn refused to appear as Chris again. Filming was where things really started to go wrong. The production was refused permission to film at just about every location they asked for (including the house from the first film), leading to them having to recreate everything on the studio backlot and inflating the $9,000,000 budget all the way up to $14,000,000. Linda Blair was already in the midst of her drug habits and constantly turned up late to shooting, to the point where she actually considered it an achievement that she was only 20 minutes late one day. Co-star Richard Burton had his own substance issues, as he was constantly drunk on-set and frequently lashed out at Boorman and his co-stars. Boorman was laid low by a serious lung infection for a month, resulting in Pallenberg - who had never directed a film before - taking over as director for many key sequences. The crew also had no idea how to realize the swarms of locusts that were required for the climax, resulting in them using a combination of styrofoam "packing peanuts" fired from an air cannon, and actual locusts with their legs clipped, with mixed results. On top of that, the locusts could only survive for a day or two in the American climes, resulting in them having to be constantly replaced at considerable cost. When the film was finally released it was laughed off the screen during its premiere, leading to Boorman hastily producing a re-edited version, which was no better received. The studio had granted Boorman to do the final cut of the movie without any kind of studio oversight. The result was considered such a disaster that no major studio has allowed that since for any movie.
Pazuzu is the name of a deity from Mesopotamian mythology (and a Christian demon), so the name actually makes sense, but there’s still got to be hundreds of less silly-sounding names to use.
1:10- Beetlejuice: I've seen The Exorcist ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT! Barbara: But have you seen the Heretic. Beetlejuice:...You monsters! I've seen it 4 times...and...why?...WHY?!!
12:46 This was honestly an interesting observation. It should have ended with "We may find ourselves pointing in the wrong direction. We may find out things that we aren't supposed to."
Always laughed when you see the water coming through the I.V on her arm in this scene. That’s why the shot is zoomed in on the next scene of her on the bed, conversing with the priest. 14:29
Wow! I only discovered NC in 2015 so I never saw any of his earlier stuff! You can really see how much theNostalgia-Ween opening sequences have improved!
"I'm au-au-ti-tistic." Proceeds to act polar oppositely to an autistic person with deep eye contact, attentiveness, and super emotive facial expressions. Does this movie have any clue what autism is? No actually that girl just has a stutter. Smh that was an odd choice lol
Me too I was like 🤔 I decided to go to see what autistic view was on this scene. As an autistic person I can confirmed this is unrealistic of Autism. Tho if I were to fix the scene, maybe have her nonverbal and have Reagan help her with writing to to help the girl communicate much better. Idk if seem act of kindness or White savior or A character development for Reagan. Let me know.
And that's no slingshot, it's a "bullroarer" (if I remember correctly) - a string with a specially formed peace of wood at the end that makes a ... deep, humming noise when you swing it like that.
Louise Fletcher was actually cast to replace Ellen Burstyn as Chris McNeil (since she looked and sounded similar). But in an interesting turn of events, the movie was able to get Kitty Winn back as Sharon so she could fill in the role of mother figure to Regan. So Fletcher was given the psychiatrist role that was originally written to be a male charactor (the fact that her character is named Gene Tuskin implies the name was never changed in the script).
Patients in mental hospitals actually can be quite casual in discussing their problems. You meet someone, you ask, “So, what are you here for?” They say, “Oh, I’m a arsonist with schizoid tendencies. How bout you?” “Oh, I’m on my fifth suicide attempt. You know.” Everyone is there for some serious issue, so it’s not like a shameful secret or anything. It’s just people on the outside who think it’s a big deal.
I have said for years everyone sane or not needs to spend 30 days in a mental health facility when we turn 18. It will definitely teach you compassion and patience with the problems of other people while allowing you to work through your own inner turmoil that you may or may not know you have. Speaking from experience. It's a hell of a lark as a cherry.
@@RickyUzumaki993 Hell yeah. I went in to a facility to get of drugs but it wasn't a rehab insurance wouldn't pay but they would pay for a mental health facility. So after three days of supervised detox I spent 27 days " what the insurance required me to stay or they wouldn't cover" in therapy groups with schizophrenics ,suicidal, a necrophilic, several really delusional people and some I couldn't place. It was interesting to say the least and something I highly recommend, really.
Ironically, Father Karras might have actually been the best priest who could have helped Regan after the fact, since he himself is a psychiatrist. It's just a shame she got stuck with the priest that doesn't know the basics of fire safety, and a shrink that doesn't know how to turn off her own machine.
Pazuzu, while an actual god from Babylon, being that of the wind and pestilence and in some mythologies is said to be what helped Moses send the Locusts to Egypt during the plagues, it is so far from scary it’s funny.
It's been about.. 15 years since it happend but I kinda regret selling my exorcist 2 dvd.. I hated it at the time but I feel I would appreciate it more now..
Copyright rules are freakin stupid. It sounds simple: if you reupload someone else's work in its entirety, you get a timeout. Now, if you upload something even SLIGHTLY memorable, you get burned at the stake. IT'S TIME TO STOP!
Anyone else besides me who had such a big crush on reagen when they were young? I had like the biggest crush on her.. She was so beautiful in the first one and even more in this one..
Disowned Adaptation: William Peter Blatty has said that when he read the shooting script, his reaction was, "This is a gag. They're trying to torment me."
I love how the first mother was "I mean sure I could see your daughter, but are you sure she isn't bipolar?" now its "Yeah I'm gonna invade a psych ward's privacy because the devil is still in a little girl" Also the light machine thing would've been better had it worked like this - Regan is guided into a trance - The doctor asks Regan to regress to that time back at home - The demon attacks the doctor and causes a panic attack PS: "Post flashing as an effect from the hypnosis" yeah that's why hypnotists do this thing called "after care" during therapy.
mgk2020 At least Freddy was supposed to be kind of funny, seeing as he loved to fuck around with his victims, often in an amusing manner. That’s still better than Pazuzu, even if it’s an actual demon name. It’s still super silly to say. They couldn’t have picked another demonic entity with a more intimidating name?
4:10 "...one that was so grounded in reality as The Exorcist." You're joking, right? The movie depicts an exorcism of a demon possed girl who spider-walks on all fours, telepathically moves furniture, and floats in the air. Based on an unverifiable and highly fantastical story of an anonymous and likely mentally disturbed kid being tortured by religious lunatics rather than receiving the help he or she desperately needed.
by "grounded in reality" he means all technology in the movie is realistic and while the supernatural events are unlikely at best the exorcism itself is fairly accurate to the documentation. also: The Exorcist is based off actual events. Look it up if you don't belive me
@largo778 I did look it up, it is extremely poorly documented and widely discredited account of an exorcism. unknown date, location and victim don't help its' case. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_Roland_Doe
@@RVered It was just technologically grounded in reality. They dident have the abilitu to read minds. It was supernatural entities that allowed for many things. In this it is technology that does so. Which is unrealistic as we dont have even anything close to the technology required to read minds and enter into pyches.
Never thought there'd be a sequel to the Exorcist, but then again there were sequels to Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Orihime Inoue Gotta milk that success for all its worth. You know, this could’ve worked if the film was like a satire of sorts. If it was supposed to be funny and the actors were purposely hamming it up. Like making fun of the flaws of the original. But no, you’re supposed to take everything being done seriously and it just... doesn’t work. I remember a film professor of ours showing us this movie in class, and EVERYONE was cracking jokes. Nobody was even the slightest bit invested in the “serious” plot, and yes, one of the things everyone pointed out was how silly the name Pazuzu was.
Still sad the x-files music had to be cut .
I agree, that music rocks and fit so well
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no copyright, witch is pretty much the same
Nathaniel Foga I blame FOX.
I hate copyright rules.
Pazuzu is the name of an actual demon though. Not high tier mind you but a common demon with considerable force. I mean I guess their our scarier versions of demons but he is the demon of pestilence, and wind.
OTOH, there are lots of demons mentioned in the Bible, and even more if you start digging into Jewish lore. Someone still deliberately choose "Pazuzu" when there were much better options on the table.
And just like a lot of "demons" in christian lore, it is not a demon at all but a mesopotamian deity. Specifically, a deity of the wind that, ironically for this movie, protected people against evil spirits.
If they took demons for their movie, true demons like those in the Goetia ( and still for the most part they are deity that have been demonized ), it would be less laughable to people with a little knowledge.
So, it is the demon of farts
@@gabrieldoyen692 Two things:
1) In Christianity there is a believe that pagan religions are controlled by demons, but those are still devils working undercover. There is no real reason why any pagan deity would be true in context of Christianity, and if that would undermine whole religion. It in fact could be interesting idea to undermine priest believe by devil, but it never was used properly undermining constancy of the series.
2) Geotia and true demons? Geotia is one of most out of ass demonology works ever made. Even most people who do believe in those stuff ignore it as valuable source.
@@TheRezro When I say "true" demon, I expressed myself poorly. I meant, "original/fresh/new" demons, that are not just demonized versions of other religions. Because really, there are a some really interesting demons in those.
The laser pointer gag was hilarious. Love seeing all these old vids again. At least yt copyright system is having one good outcome.
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That thumbnail is me everytime I see that something had been taken down for bs copyright reasons
That’s when I go boom boom
This comment saved me from going on a dangerous rant about this re upload I almost bit his head off because this has been re up'd atleast more than 4 times now
Bs? Didnt he just straight up use the whole xfiles theme song?
oppose article 13
Just wait for Article 13 to come about lmao
The part where James Earl Jones roars always kills me XD
Even funnier when you consider it's Simba's failed roar before the stampede (like, literally. It's the same roar), and James Earl Jones played Mufasa.
@@Alejandroigarabide Yep
I love the "kindergarten production of district 9" joke
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I never missed a pair of sideburns as much as I've missed Nostalgia Critic's.
*RIP Sideburns*
I feel so bad that critic has to reupload certain videos, but I feel good that he's doing it to bring back some of our favorite nostalgia critic reviews
Hey critic, just thought I'd let you know Pazuzu wasn't this films choice. You see Pazuzu is an actual Mesopotamian demon and while this demon isn't mentioned by name in the first film they're actually statues of the demon sprinkled into the first film notably during the exorcism scene where Regan reaches out to a statue of Pazuzu
Read the novel Exorcist they explain things better in order to understand certain scenes in the original film you would have to read the novel
Thank you for pointing this out.
@@BarryHart-xo1oythank you for thanking them for pointing it out.
It's in the book. The evil against evil comment in the movie is a hint that it;s Pazuzu.. Pazuzu actually protects pregnant mothers and their children against his rival demon Lamashtu who ironically is the one who steals children.
Pazuzu is the name of the Babylonian king of demons. It may sound silly in English, but it's the real name of a demon.
Funny thing I was thinking about the gargoyle from Futurama
@@Smokingwrecker That's where it came from.
@@slook7094 Pazuzu's legend is not that he is King of demons but instead the Prince of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms.
@@ndrsmnz Well, I'm no Assyriologist, so I'll defer to you.
Yeah, but the point is that they were making a film for the American market. Since they were making up a story, they probably should have picked or created a different name that actually sounded intimidating. It works so well in Futurama even if you don't know the reference because it sounds both ancient and silly at the same time. In this case it is about appearances not substance, it's not a documentary. If you have to explain the reference to the general audience for a plot point to work, then take out or change the reference.
If anyone wants to see a great movie with Richard Burton, I highly recommend his performance as Hamlet. He was marvelous as the Prince.
He was also in 1984
Or "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" To this day I'm upset he wasn't honored with an Oscar for that performance.
He was great in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" also
I once played a drinking game with this movie: every time Richard Burton says "eeeevil", you do a shot. Handy tip: Do not do this. I passed out halfway through the movie.
Fitting, though - word has it Burton was drunk for most of the shoot.
Pazuzu, that's the name of the Professor's gargoyle in Futurama and the demon that possessed Maggie in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXVIII (28), "The Exor-Sis."
Dang, I feel silly because I kept thinking it was "Ma zuzu" and tried to make sense of it in French.
When pazuzu’s eyes are glowing it’s time to go to bed
- Homer Simpson
That moment you’re excited for another NC reupload!
Then finding out that this is a reupload due Copyright shenanigans. Oh well. I hadn't seen this video yet. This should be excellent!
I miss having The X-Files theme for the intro of these Nostalgiaween episodes, they fit the intro a lot better.
Ahh, never gets old. I mean, this review. The movie does get pretty old indeed.
The movie also seems silly especially with the music
how in the name of holy hell did they get James Earl Jones to have a small role? Glad I never watched this movie; this review saves massive time
I'm sure the exorcist was a big enough name to entice him
It may have been like Linda. The s riot was completely different when they signed up. It was later changed so much it became unrecognisable. They continued rewriting during filming. Since they'd already signed they couldn't back out. So, his role may have originally been larger, and when they cut it he couldn't get out of it
he's had small roles his whole career. he's a character actor. he only ever had a lead role in "the great white hope" (1970).
@@DreamBeliefisn't changing the script to the point where it was a very different story and no longer what they actually agreed to grounds for invalidating such a contract?
You should also review Exorcist III!
I think he thinks Part 3 is too good to get a Nostalgia Critic review.
Yes
Instead he talks about it in the Top 11 Scariest Performances
It's weird how people say Pazuzu is a weird name. It is a demon from ancient Mesopotamian religion who was the king of wind demons wielding the power of storms and droughts. Locust isn't too far a stretch BUT is sometimes protecting people from evil spirits in some versions of the mythology.
What does any of that have to do with it being a weird name? I met a Chinese lady named "Dung" once, no joke. The fact that it's "real" doesn't make it sound any less funny.
I wonder if it's partly because it sounds like a Japanese car brand.
"I have maggots in my scroooootum." Totally forgot where that came from, but I laughed pretty hard at that.
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10:55 Simba's roar before the stampene. Ironic coming from James Earl Jones who played Mufasa.
In any case, it does sound suspiciously similar to the MGM roar, particularly the '09 logo. Maybe they recycled it. They were clearly struggling financially, it could make sense.
Who keeps attacking the critic with all these copyright claims? 😡😡😡
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No one, Doug just wants to re-upload all of his old videos to his newer audience for that extra cash! It’s stupid how nobody has realized this shit but me! 😑
Rikard Karlsson he can’t monetize the previous uploads if it’s already been deleted clearly
Imani S. H. If there not there then he simply deleted them!
@@RickyKarlsson you are the on ly smart one i guess.
Dont watch free content since you are too smart.
Man, I remember this review from a while back. Glad you could reupload it Doug!
"The funny thing is this is just how they get Sarah Silverman to go to church."
Sarah Silverman is Jewish so I guess her objection makes sense. o_O
Adahop holy shit Adahop you da man! I didn’t think I’d see you over on this channel! Keep up the awesome work we all enjoy it
Yeah, that got a "wait what?" from me too.
Her being Jewish is what makes the joke work
@casey uh dude that's incredibly rude. What makes you think that.
@casey if you actually did any research on Islam you would know it is not an extremist religion.
Only referring to Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched was a thing of beauty! Sad that she did such a great job in that role that it typcasted her. It would be like if you kept referring to James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom or Darth Vader
Also if you ever do Exorcist 3 please have a reference to the infamous “Turn it off!” scene from Hard Core. In fact that would work for most of the movies reviewed not just ones with George C Scott.
The actress cant' even watch her own performance because it's "too cruel"
@@PandaMonium92827 she's passed away now 😔
Funny that you brought up Hardcore. Director Paul Schrader later directed Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, the version that got rejected and completely refilmed as Exorcist The Beginning.
He'd do a Patton reference if George C Scott is in it.
Exorcist 2: the Electric Boogaloo
With all the locusts in this shitty sequel, don't you mean Bug-aloo?
Exorcist 2: The Quickening
Pazuzooloo
Linda Blair was so fine in this movie.
Joshua Baratheon
Why else do you think the director put her into that dress at the end?
@@TakumiTheFAUSTScientist wasnt she like 16 at the time?
Bobby Shaddoe Actually she was 18!
Timothy Morris wait what?? I thought she was like 12 in the first film so wouldn’t that have made her around 16?
@@Luka-zi9kv She should have been around 14 when the first movie came out. She was born 59 and the movie came out 74 or something. Childactors can be a pain in the ass for everyone so usualy they take an actor somewhat older than the character to play.
i know that thing that kid is swinging around isnt actually a slingshot its some kind of circular ring that makes a sound that apperantly repels bugs. anyone know what its called?
Bullroarer
Love that ending of the spirits dropping Dougs movie. Especially funny when one is aware how much Doug hates Doug.
That was Pazuzu using locusts to drop the movie.
My cat's name is Pazuzu, she's scarier than this movie
"The name Pazuzu is not scary. It sounds silly."
Lucifer sounds like the name of a gigolo. But, any Christian knows to keep their guard up around him.
Honestly, this film is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's so weird, surreal and dream-like that it almost feels like a Kubrickian drug-trip. Yeah, it has its flaws, but it's part of its charm.
Did I miss it, or did you actually leave out the tapdancing scene? One of the most relentlessly hilarious, for all the wrong reasons, scenes ever filmed?
I thought it was weird too
"Pazuzu doesn't sound scary."
You know, on that note, I always wondered how people were frightened by "Beelzebub". Like, it sounds like a bumblebee version of Wolverine, but apparently people learn to "fear the wrath of Beelzebub". At least Pazuzu has a longer history back to Babylon.
PAZUZU!! You ungrateful gargoyle!!!
Every time I remember this film is a thing I am sad that the cool concepts such as the 'Universal consciousness' thing and the callback to Pazuzu's actual role within the Sumerian mythology (I believe Blatty might have chosen him for the demon within Regan in the novel because some sources regard him as 'King of the Wind Demons' which is really cooler than it sounds when you consider context) and KICKASS soundtrack had to be wasted on something that is underwhelming at best.
So audiences had two choices in 1977. See James Earl Jones in this movie or hear him breathe heavy in that new space movie called Star Wars.
the music had me laughing instead of being terrified lol
100% True!
To be fair, it had the “X-Files Theme” originally and not the stock soundtrack here.
We were referring to the music in Exorcist 2, right HetaliaNorwegian?
Troubled Production:
Friedkin and writer William Peter Blatty were repeatedly asked for ideas for a sequel but turned the studio down on finding out that the producer assigned the project, Richard Lederer, wanted them to just make a quick-and-dirty sequel to exploit the first film's success. Instead, a screenplay was commissioned from William Goodhart, whose only other screenplay credit was the obscure 1969 film Generation; the exact contents of Goodhart's screenplay have never been made publicly known, but apparently mixed in the first film's themes with a lot of odd metaphysical symbolism.
The studio then hired John Boorman to direct the film - an odd choice when you consider that he actually disliked the first film, and was more interested in the metaphysical aspects of Goodhart's script than any of the actual Christian themes. Boorman and co-writer Rospo Pallenberg then pretty much scrubbed all the remaining Christian elements from the script, leaving it barely recognisable as an Exorcist sequel. They then had to perform further last-minute rewrites which swapped out Regan's mother Chris for Sharon, the nanny from the first film, after Ellen Burstyn refused to appear as Chris again.
Filming was where things really started to go wrong. The production was refused permission to film at just about every location they asked for (including the house from the first film), leading to them having to recreate everything on the studio backlot and inflating the $9,000,000 budget all the way up to $14,000,000. Linda Blair was already in the midst of her drug habits and constantly turned up late to shooting, to the point where she actually considered it an achievement that she was only 20 minutes late one day. Co-star Richard Burton had his own substance issues, as he was constantly drunk on-set and frequently lashed out at Boorman and his co-stars. Boorman was laid low by a serious lung infection for a month, resulting in Pallenberg - who had never directed a film before - taking over as director for many key sequences. The crew also had no idea how to realize the swarms of locusts that were required for the climax, resulting in them using a combination of styrofoam "packing peanuts" fired from an air cannon, and actual locusts with their legs clipped, with mixed results. On top of that, the locusts could only survive for a day or two in the American climes, resulting in them having to be constantly replaced at considerable cost.
When the film was finally released it was laughed off the screen during its premiere, leading to Boorman hastily producing a re-edited version, which was no better received. The studio had granted Boorman to do the final cut of the movie without any kind of studio oversight. The result was considered such a disaster that no major studio has allowed that since for any movie.
Where are those infos from?
Pazuzu is the name of a deity from Mesopotamian mythology (and a Christian demon), so the name actually makes sense, but there’s still got to be hundreds of less silly-sounding names to use.
It's still a really silly name for a real demon though.
Who would've thought Louise "Kai Winn" Fletcher was a babe back in the day?
Pazuzu is the demon king of the wind and is a bringer of storm and drought, it's not really a silly name as it's a real name of a demon
Oh my god, I almost died from what is known as fatal hilarity after that Eartha Kitt comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Regan wasn't possed by two spirits, she was possed by Pazuzu who said they/her/he was the devil for no reason.
1:10- Beetlejuice: I've seen The Exorcist ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!
Barbara: But have you seen the Heretic.
Beetlejuice:...You monsters! I've seen it 4 times...and...why?...WHY?!!
12:46 This was honestly an interesting observation. It should have ended with "We may find ourselves pointing in the wrong direction. We may find out things that we aren't supposed to."
Always laughed when you see the water coming through the I.V on her arm in this scene. That’s why the shot is zoomed in on the next scene of her on the bed, conversing with the priest. 14:29
Looks like the stress of being married to Elizabeth Taylor twice was so great so that it drove Richard Burton to convert and join the priesthood.
That plus booze
I was expecting at least one clip of Farnsworth from Futurama frustratingly calling his pet gargoyle Pazuzu to come back
Wow! I only discovered NC in 2015 so I never saw any of his earlier stuff! You can really see how much theNostalgia-Ween opening sequences have improved!
Look up the older stuff. There's some great ones
I like the episodes that don't have a bunch of acting scenes, just Nostalgia Critic and the movie.
James Earl Jones dresses up like a bug. Definitely sounds like an Exorcist movie.
What about Darth Vader screamed "locust researcher"😂
@@samuelking7219 That's the final step to the Dark Side.
@@HeyInternetErichere
Darth vader: you don't know the power of the dark side
*locusts start flying around*
@@samuelking7219 replace the men in Rogue One with locusts during Vader's appearance.
The flashing light machine scenes are great for ASMR.
8:53-8:58 "IIIII have maggots in myy sccrrottuumm." roflmao that was a hilarious Book of Mormon musical line inserted into this review xD
This was the last Exorcist movie I hadn't seen and had heard awful things. Not as awful as I expected but a lot weirder than I expected.
"I'm au-au-ti-tistic." Proceeds to act polar oppositely to an autistic person with deep eye contact, attentiveness, and super emotive facial expressions. Does this movie have any clue what autism is? No actually that girl just has a stutter. Smh that was an odd choice lol
Me too I was like 🤔 I decided to go to see what autistic view was on this scene. As an autistic person I can confirmed this is unrealistic of Autism. Tho if I were to fix the scene, maybe have her nonverbal and have Reagan help her with writing to to help the girl communicate much better. Idk if seem act of kindness or White savior or A character development for Reagan. Let me know.
I'm autistic and I know that isn't autism-
Who knew one year later that girl (Dana Plato) would play Kimberly Drummond in Diff’rent Strokes
RIP James Earl Jones
10:10 I'm just imagining the choir they hired for this part lol
And that's no slingshot, it's a "bullroarer" (if I remember correctly) - a string with a specially formed peace of wood at the end that makes a ... deep, humming noise when you swing it like that.
The next nostalgiaween intro should be a parody of The Walking Dead
"lots of girls walk downstairs on all fours"
my sister used to literally throw herself down the stairs because it was faster than walking
Louise Fletcher was actually cast to replace Ellen Burstyn as Chris McNeil (since she looked and sounded similar). But in an interesting turn of events, the movie was able to get Kitty Winn back as Sharon so she could fill in the role of mother figure to Regan. So Fletcher was given the psychiatrist role that was originally written to be a male charactor (the fact that her character is named Gene Tuskin implies the name was never changed in the script).
Friggin hilarious episode, Doug and crew. Never a dull moment lol 😆😂😂
Patients in mental hospitals actually can be quite casual in discussing their problems. You meet someone, you ask, “So, what are you here for?” They say, “Oh, I’m a arsonist with schizoid tendencies. How bout you?” “Oh, I’m on my fifth suicide attempt. You know.” Everyone is there for some serious issue, so it’s not like a shameful secret or anything. It’s just people on the outside who think it’s a big deal.
catsmom129
Fair point
I have said for years everyone sane or not needs to spend 30 days in a mental health facility when we turn 18. It will definitely teach you compassion and patience with the problems of other people while allowing you to work through your own inner turmoil that you may or may not know you have. Speaking from experience. It's a hell of a lark as a cherry.
Ronald Owens
Really?
Ronald Owens
Really?
@@RickyUzumaki993 Hell yeah. I went in to a facility to get of drugs but it wasn't a rehab insurance wouldn't pay but they would pay for a mental health facility. So after three days of supervised detox I spent 27 days " what the insurance required me to stay or they wouldn't cover" in therapy groups with schizophrenics ,suicidal, a necrophilic, several really delusional people and some I couldn't place. It was interesting to say the least and something I highly recommend, really.
12:02 i laughed for 5 minutes when I first saw this, and still makes me laugh now
Ironically, Father Karras might have actually been the best priest who could have helped Regan after the fact, since he himself is a psychiatrist.
It's just a shame she got stuck with the priest that doesn't know the basics of fire safety, and a shrink that doesn't know how to turn off her own machine.
Pazuzu, while an actual god from Babylon, being that of the wind and pestilence and in some mythologies is said to be what helped Moses send the Locusts to Egypt during the plagues, it is so far from scary it’s funny.
What are your sources on the Moses part of that? I know this from 2 years ago but still
Fun Fact: Linda Blair did an episode of Supernatural.
No surprise there
It's been about.. 15 years since it happend but I kinda regret selling my exorcist 2 dvd.. I hated it at the time but I feel I would appreciate it more now..
Free Nostalgia Critic! Down with copyright claims on his work!
Copyright rules are freakin stupid.
It sounds simple: if you reupload someone else's work in its entirety, you get a timeout.
Now, if you upload something even SLIGHTLY memorable, you get burned at the stake.
IT'S TIME TO STOP!
LETS ALL BURN RUclips FOR TAKING DOWN FUNNY CONTENT
Anyone else besides me who had such a big crush on reagen when they were young? I had like the biggest crush on her.. She was so beautiful in the first one and even more in this one..
Ancient_Ys she’s adorable
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Ancient_Ys My biggest celeb crush is Reese Witherspoon (don’t judge!). But my second is totally Regan! She’s sexy af
Pre/post-possession I can see where you’re coming from
the whole demon thing kinda runed her for me.
#saveyourinternet everytime a vid gets reuploaded a tear falls from doug's face
“So grounded in reality as exorcist” I want what ever your smoking
When pazuzu’s eyes are glowing it’s time to go to bed
- Homer Simpson
10:52 best scene
Exorcist 3 was great!
They cut the Ellen Burstyn joke
That was a funny joke, too.
JMein13074 Damn. That was a funny one too. What else did they edit?
Disowned Adaptation: William Peter Blatty has said that when he read the shooting script, his reaction was, "This is a gag. They're trying to torment me."
The movie at least had some pretty kick ass theme music
This is what I call a Fever Dream movie!
That Drawing Is Beautiful
Dude, Ex2 was so bad that it made Ex3 underrated
Weird to hear him say he'll never do Nostalgiaween again, after he's done it every year since.
You're intro could've been just Teddy Ruxpin , Nostalgia-Ween enough
to some people exorcist 2 was an awesome movie.louise fletcher did an awesome job in it
Wait seriously? Her performance was razzie worthy in my opinion. Literally sounded like she was reading off cue cards the entire time
we are all entitled to our opinions .no matter how wrong yours is@@123rockfan
Maybe she didn't pay the exorcist, so she was "repossessed"?
Badum Tish.
I love how the first mother was
"I mean sure I could see your daughter, but are you sure she isn't bipolar?"
now its "Yeah I'm gonna invade a psych ward's privacy because the devil is still in a little girl"
Also the light machine thing would've been better had it worked like this
- Regan is guided into a trance
- The doctor asks Regan to regress to that time back at home
- The demon attacks the doctor and causes a panic attack
PS: "Post flashing as an effect from the hypnosis" yeah that's why hypnotists do this thing called "after care" during therapy.
I'm pretty sure Pazuzu is the demon that possesses Regan in the first movie...
it's a legit biblical reference
Pretty sure there's no Pazuzu in the Bible.
Seriously...why did the housesitter from the first one have to die in such a firey undignified way. Poor lady who's name I can't remember
Still not as bad as the death of Linda Blairs career
the first one is creative and scary the second one is just weird
Squishy Puppy 10:00
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Yeah, the demon needs a horrifying name of malice and intimidation, something like Freddy...
mgk2020 At least Freddy was supposed to be kind of funny, seeing as he loved to fuck around with his victims, often in an amusing manner.
That’s still better than Pazuzu, even if it’s an actual demon name. It’s still super silly to say. They couldn’t have picked another demonic entity with a more intimidating name?
I can't believe Farnsworth's pet demon is the cause of all this.
Well ya know what I've I've been looking for this review anyways *SO TAKE THAT COPYRIGHT!*
I love channel awesome I've watched them since the beggining I remember watching this video in 2011
I think I'm the only one who thinks that Pazuzu is a scary/creepy name and not in fact hilarious
I mean it is a real demon name
F**k it, it's Monday, I'm drinking and NC uploaded.
That thumbnail is when I see another Tik Tok
So you spin your head backwards, and expel your entire stomach contents?
Didn't know it've gotten that bad.
Except the ironic ones
Some of them are really funny though
AwesomeGoldenGamers you a virgin if you think TicThot
is funny
@@sethbigboy324 I am a virgin xD you got me good
4:10
"...one that was so grounded in reality as The Exorcist."
You're joking, right?
The movie depicts an exorcism of a demon possed girl who spider-walks on all fours, telepathically moves furniture, and floats in the air.
Based on an unverifiable and highly fantastical story of an anonymous and likely mentally disturbed kid being tortured by religious lunatics rather than receiving the help he or she desperately needed.
...Maybe that was the wrong wording. I would the first was simply better executed.
by "grounded in reality" he means all technology in the movie is realistic and while the supernatural events are unlikely at best the exorcism itself is fairly accurate to the documentation.
also: The Exorcist is based off actual events. Look it up if you don't belive me
@largo778
I did look it up, it is extremely poorly documented and widely discredited account of an exorcism.
unknown date, location and victim don't help its' case.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_Roland_Doe
@@RVered
It was just technologically grounded in reality. They dident have the abilitu to read minds. It was supernatural entities that allowed for many things. In this it is technology that does so. Which is unrealistic as we dont have even anything close to the technology required to read minds and enter into pyches.
>Unverifiable
Empiricuck detected
Never thought there'd be a sequel to the Exorcist, but then again there were sequels to Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Orihime Inoue Gotta milk that success for all its worth. You know, this could’ve worked if the film was like a satire of sorts. If it was supposed to be funny and the actors were purposely hamming it up. Like making fun of the flaws of the original. But no, you’re supposed to take everything being done seriously and it just... doesn’t work. I remember a film professor of ours showing us this movie in class, and EVERYONE was cracking jokes. Nobody was even the slightest bit invested in the “serious” plot, and yes, one of the things everyone pointed out was how silly the name Pazuzu was.
Yeah, that's true.