Burke was her director, as well as a boor and an alcoholic, so no, not intimately involved with the mother, just working on the film together. First time I’ve noticed, just before the Help Me on the stomach scene, there is a hand written banner above the door at the priest’s office that reads ‘tasukete!’ which is Japanese for ‘help me’.
The crucifix scene is what finally urged Chris to find an exorcist and the help me on Regan’s stomach was what urged Karris to finally accept that an exorcism was needed.
Mercedes Macambridge, an Oscar winning actress from the golden age of Hollywood, provided the voice of the demon. The story really is about Father Karras. He's a priest dealing with a crisis of faith as well as the guilt of his mother's death. Then he's forced to confront something he can't explain, which after investigating he's still not convinced. But in the end he commits the ultimate act of love and sacrifices his life to save someone he never met. Remember, he never met Reagan, only the demon.
The iconic theme is the opening piece from the album "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield. It was his first studio album, the first released by Virgin Records and, to my opinion, one of the most mesmerizing pieces of instrumental music I've ever heard!
@@StephenRansom47 No, he wasn't. The whole piece lasts for 40 minutes, it's one of those long progressive rock songs that last for the entire length of the album. He started composing back in 1971 and it was released in 1973. The album is amazing but that section that plays in The Exorcist is only the introduction of the album/song. William Friedkin did not like the original score composed by Lalo Schifrin, so he scrapped that and decided to look for other music. He stumbled into Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells who had just been released and loved it, so he used it in the film. It was not composed for the film, it's just an album that was released around the same time and got more exposure thanks to the film.
@@Jeff_Lichtman long time ago, in my country of Greece, the audience of the most popular radio show voted Ommadawn among the "100 Most Influential Albums Of All Time"
26:27 "I don't know if I want to go *outside* or stay inside forever, this is a tricky one.." I laughed so hard I snorted. Thank you for shaving off a tiny bit of your sanity for your community on this one :D
I would never laugh about evil just because you don't think it's real doesn't mean a thing Im SURE you realize no one knows for sure about what dimensions exist that could be what some consider heaven and Hell
People please Mary is not suposed to be watching horror movies, of all the movies you can sugest. Anyway the reaction was 100% genuine and great in it's own way.
Great reaction 👍 Father Karris character is so complex and layered. His eyes are filled with guilt and pain. And he sacrifices himself to save a little girl that he had never really met. I think he wanted to save her because he never got the chance to save his mother. And it was Jason Miller’s first screen role.
When karras first goes into regans room the book describes it as: "His eyes locked, stunned, on the thing that was Regan, on the creature that was lying on its back in the bed, head propped against a pillow while eyes bulging wide in their hollow sockets shone with mad cunning and burning intelligence, with interest and with spite as they fixed upon his, as they watched him intently, seething in a face shaped into a skeletal, hideous mask of mind-bending malevolence. Karras shifted his gaze to the tangled, thickly-matted hair; to the wasted arms and legs; the distended stomach jutting up so grotesquely; then back to the eyes. They where watching him."
I watched this after midnight when I was house sitting my parents new house. Their dog was not allowed up on the couch, but after I was done watching this I brought him into the living room and put him on the couch with me. I then stayed up all night till the sun came up, and I was still afraid to go to sleep. :D
The scariest part of the movie is that the story happens to a normal family. There is no family curse or a haunted house. Thus, it could happen to you.
The Exorcist is perhaps the scariest movie I have ever seen. I saw it in 1973 in the theatre and the audience went berserk! The Director, William Friedkin deserves praise for creating a movie so terrifying that it feels real and unforgettable.
Imagine how disturbing this was in 1973. In Ireland the Catholic Church had the film banned and it was only first released in public in Ireland in 1998 on the 25th anniversary.
I've called this the best horror movie ever made. It does absolutely everything so well, from the INCREDIBLE performance by Linda Blair, to the mysterious music, the grounded setting... it draws you in and just plain horrifies. Brilliant stuff.
the best is,the demon is not some stupid slasher,running arround... It is smart,cunning,and intelligent. And plays mind-games with you extremely well (as with Karrases mother)
He was convicted and imprisoned after murdering a gay man and he also bragged in prison about killing other gay men but they couldn't find any evidence about it. William Friedkin (the director of The Exorcist) was inspired by this to direct his 1980 film Cruising about a serial killer targeting gay men.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Editing. It made $440 million dollars at the box office against a $13 million dollar budget. It adjusted for inflation, it would have made $2.4 n Billion worldwide. The movie is said to be cursed as most of the actors and crew got into unexplained accidents before and during filming.
There are those movies where some cast did die unnatural deaths , but when you consider during movie productions since 1990s have over 40 people died and 150 got life time injuries and one of the most accident prone company is Disney ... Harrison Ford broke his leg under Star Wars filming for an example . Cocoon 1985 movie main cast is manly all dead , when Wilburn Brimley and Brian Dennehy died last year , leaving Steve Guttenberg to be only one still alive , was the movie Cocoon cursed ?
@@pete_lind Considering most of the main cast were past 70 years old, the fact that most of them are dead now (36 years later), shouldn't be all that big of a surprise :-p
6:12 "If I ever am rich and famous..." Well, I can't say anything about rich, but you have 33 and a half THOUSAND subscribers on your channel. You are definitely famous for us!👍
Glad you watched it. One of the best horror films ever made. I don't think it will ever be surpassed. It's been scaring people for nearly 50 years and continues to do so with every new generation.
If you haven't heard it in full, the music is Michael Oldfield's Tubular Bells which is about 40 minutes and a lot more than what is excerpted. It's the album that founded Richard Branson's fortune.
This is an incredibly well made movie and to this day the only movie in the horror genre to be nominated for a best picture Oscar it lost out to The Sting another movie Mary well worth a watch.
The Exorcist is NOT the only horror movie nominated for Best Picture. Get Out was also nominated for Best Picture in 2018, and you can also argue about the Best Picture nominations of The Silence of the Lambs and Black Swan (the latter two are considered psychological horror in Wikipedia and Letterboxd but they may also be considered psychological thriller - however, a movie doesn't need to be only one genre, so they might as well be both).
@@krautgazer With 10 Nominations AND the sentiment to give awards or nominations to minority actors, you can't compare the two. So, if they decide to nominate 20 movies a year next year, that would mean a horror movie a year might get nominated. No comparison however can be made. I am sure they were not speaking about today's Politically Correct BS Hollywood that nobody respects. Great Movies in the 30s, 40s, '50s, 60s, 70s, and even the 80s, since then it's pretty much ht and miss with mostly misses.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is another disturbing film for a more modern audience. It's also based on a true story, and really leaves the audience with questions based on how they stand on the whole idea of exorcisms and possessions.
Ummm, Get Out, The Silence of The Lambs, Jaws, The Sixth Sense were all nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. We have to know our Hollywood movie history better.
@@MrRondonmon hahahahahahahaha. Wait a minute. OK. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Funniest, most desperate comment I've seen in a while. Thanks for the laugh.
My high school theology teacher was the religious advisor for The Exorcist. He was a tall, old Jesuit priest who looked like the Max Von Sydow Merrin priest. Of course, we asked him if he had ever conducted an exorcism, but he would not answer.
When this movie first came out it was very controversial. Morals were very different in the 1970s and this movie was unlike any horror movie made to that point. It took something that was whispered about and brought it up front and in color to audiences worldwide. It truly was ground breaking and still stands the test of time.
"Her brain didn't shake the bed, bro ... I mean doctor" ... 😆😆😆 ... Saw the re-release of this in the theatre with the 'spider-walk' scene that was originally cut because they thought it was too frightening. Of course her hear spinning all the way around was just fine. Great reaction video as always, Mary!
I saw this when I was 17 and it was an assault on the senses, something never seen before. People were in the lobby crying, leaving the theater early and passing out.
This isn't just a great horror movie, it's a straight up great movie. One of my favorites, and I'm someone who doesn't give a shit about paranormal stuff. I don't like many horror movies, as most of them are just cheap jump scares, but the Exorcist knows what the fuck it's doing.
@Donatella Loncar agreed. what could have been paranormal nonsense is presented with almost a documentary type feel to it, plus the realistic performances of Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow and of course Linda Blair, all make this a true classic.
The cross scene, your face was freaking priceless!! It made me laugh so hard! Sorry but I've seen this film several times and now it's not scary to me at all, but knowing what you're about to see is pure joy for me. Thanks for being brave and conquering this movie. You're so fun to watch Mary. Thank you for being so entertaining. ❤️😁
This movie scared me for a month. I saw it when it first came out in the theaters. I was only 18. It was crazy scary. Some people could not take it and walked out of the theater. Can you imagine seeing this on the big screen?
3:28 LOL Yes, Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 5:05 Ouija boards were actually toys before they started being used in horror movies, then, surprisingly, less people wanted them.
Kudos Mary! The Exorcist isn’t jump scare scary, it’s just just disturbing as hell. It’s really good as a horror, but it’s like a weird high-brow horror that always sticks with you in the back of your mind. So, I suggest watching a nice cleanse of, I don’t know, Disney Pixar movies for a few weeks. 😆. By the way, the main location of this movie is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. The home and adjoining outdoor steep steps in the movie is a famous tourist attraction. Nearby is the prestigious Jesuit university called Georgetown University; it does have an attractive campus. Also, the movie is based on a book by W.P. Blatty, which is inspired by a real child exorcism that occurred between 1949 - 1951. Part of the story took place just outside of Washington, DC in a Maryland neighborhood called Cottage City. A 14 year old boy underwent a prolonged exorcism by Catholic Priests first in Cottage City and then, after the family moved, in St. Louis, Missouri. Supposedly it was successful, though some think the boy faked the possession.
this is a "smart" horror movie,with no need for cheap jumpscare shit! It makes you uncomfortable. And Friedkin tried to make it in a documentary style,everything is sooo realistic,wide shots,not many cuts,no shaky-cam etc... Untill the end,if u think about it,only 1 person dies (Burke),and even that is off screen! And the demon is cunning,and smart,not some stupid slasher running arround with an axe! Imo best horror ever made
@sam lombardi i read about these stories. Some stated that back in the day many horror movie crews tried to "make up" these stories,of unnatural things happening on set. To sort of hype up the movie... In original "Amitiville" they admitted of this. Whatever the truth, Exorcist is the best
@sam lombardi and the whole set mysteriously burned down... Also,one doctor involved in that nasty procedure Reagan takes,was found to be a serial killer,years later!!! Weird stuff!?
A great choice for you to watch! It's such an involving movie as you see Regan's slow descent and corruption. And you get introduced to Karras at his lowest point. The US at the time was dealing with a lot of crime, corruption, and disillusionment so Karras was like all of us in a way. Finding his way in the middle of the exorcism is a powerful journey for him. I'm glad you were able to get into his mindset as the demon really shook him by initiating his mother and preying on his guilt over her dying alone in an institution. Your empathy is a superpower and you're a real treasure because of it! Thank you for sharing!
Nearly a year later... in Texas, there was a jewelry artisan names James Avery. He was small time, local craft fairs, etc. Excellent work. After this film, sale of his crucifixes went thru the roof and his work 'went national'.
Unlike everybody informing reactors about behind the scenes stuff with Viggo Mortenson breaking his toe while kicking a helmet. This story is less shared. In the scene where the demon hits Reagan's mom and sends her flying. That scene used a rope tied to her waist that a crew member used to yank her across the room. The crew member pulled so hard he injured her back fairly severely. Not broken but slipped disks, or dislocation. That scream was one of actual pain.
This is a pretty straight forward story about exorcism, but what makes it so special for me is its disturbing psychological impact. It’s really the corruption and defiling of innocents that gets to me. Every time we see Regan she gets progressively worse as the evil that occupies her eats into her body and soul. We watch a child decay before our very eyes. Every time it falsely presents as Damien’s mom, it defiles the memory he has of her and her voice. Not many find it “scary”, but I was creeped out, anxious and scared when I first watched it. IMO, it’s *the best horror film to ever been made. Edit: I do recommend for first timers to watch it alone at night, with the lights off, and without any distractions from your phone.
My mother loved horror movies. We saw this at the drive-in theater when I was about 4. It was difficult to watch since we were experiencing weird happenings in the house we moved into.
Hahaha! I was 5 in the drive in theater with my parents when they saw it. They figured I’d be asleep by the time it started. They were wrong. Scared me so much, but I love it.
When you see their breath, it was actually that cold in there. No CGI for this one. Also disturbing fact that you probably don't want to know: the radiologist in the movie during the angiography is a convicted murderer
Also disturbing is that the guy who played Father Dyer (Karras’ friend) was actually a priest, and in 2019 was accused of abusing a high school student in the 80s.
It's great don't get me wrong but I really get hung up on the fact that Reagan could never ever possibly survive the demon doing that to her body. I know it's supernatural and it's a dumb thing to care about but I just can't shake it
Nate, in the novel, the demon installs hallucinations in the mother and both priests. Thus the head turn, Karris’s mother sitting on the bed, the Pazuzu statue beside Regan when her arms are reaching up.
I feel like this movie really holds up, maybe not entirely on the scares (which are still really well done) but on the notion that this almost plays like a detective story. They rule out the obvious physiological and psychological causes of her behaviors before going to the metaphysical answers. On top of that, you mix in the genius story of a priest dealing with his guilt and how the demon seizes on that, almost like the priest himself is the prize, not Regan. I adore this movie because of all of that. On top of alllllll of that, though, the scares are legit. Modern movies tend to throw so much "HEY CHECK THIS OUT" stuff at the scares, whereas some of the scariest things in this movie are freeze frames of a face or a dresser drawer opening on its own or a line of dialogue. Brilliant movie, 10 out of 10.
I can attest to the priest’s challenges of taking care of an aging mother. Been there myself. Especially if they’re unhappy in their situation, don’t wanna be there etc.
Just hearing this on TV from the next room was enough to make me sleep with my light on for weeks. I finally watched it when I was around 28. After having played Dungeons and Dragons and getting that kind of mental exposure to all the kinds of things that can happen in the game (monster movies had become an examination about them rather than just being scared), I found myself more intrigued with the movie - but it was still really scary. This movie is really, really rough. I can't think of any movie that left me more impacted.
It's a fun exercise to imagine this playing to 1973 audiences. People had not yet become hardened to the type of graphic violence we see in cinema today. People came out of the theaters quite traumatized by this film. "Trying to move on with life and pretending that didn't happen" was my favorite line of the movie.
I saw this when it came out. There were people throwing up in the theater and I saw one guy actually sobbing as he crawled down the aisle trying to get out.
my mother in the 70s went to the cinema with her sisters to watch this and ran screaming from the building afterwards...they had many weeks of nightmares ;; ))
great reaction. This movie has been haunting peoples thoughts since it first debuted. As I understand, when it first played in movies. Some people got sick or fainted. Hope it doesn't ruin your sleep too much.
15:57 when the mom lands on the floor hard, it was an actual injury caught on tape. Accordingly, there was a wire behind the curtain that was supposed to pull her so she can fly across the room and land safely on the floor. Unfortunately, the wire snapped and broke leading the actress to have a permanent back injury on her cocyx
Such a great reaction. Don't think I have ever seen you drop the F bomb this much and it really cracked me up. My first time watching this was in the early 80s when me and a bunch of my friends had to rent it and a VCR at the time for a slumber party for my birthday. All of us guys starting to think we were bad ass going into our teenage years. It messed all of us up. And yes I did mess with a Ouija board one time in my life and it was the night of my 21st birthday. I don't remember too much about that experience other than it whatever happened freaked the f..k out of all my friends, made some people leave the party and I'll never mess with one again. My younger brother by 2.5 years still is very hesitant to talk about whatever happened that night, because his kids ask him all the time around Halloween; and to this day I'm not sure everything that went on that night. Great reaction to a great movie. Edit: If my memory serves,, I think this movie is based on at least similar real life events of an exorcism story/attempt that happened in another country (Germany/Holland/The Netherlands maybe are immediately coming to mind, and I think that is what the book took inspiration on, but the true event involved a male boy/child I think.....) For a movie that is just about as equally disturbing I would recommend The original Omen (1974 or 1976 I think). The song in the opening credits may be the scariest piece of music ever recorded, even more than the Tubular Bells that was played in this movie. That movie also involves a child, Christian religious beliefs, and is also a movie that is more unsettling and unnerving than it does rely on jump scares.
When this movie came out in 73 a lot of the movie going audience hadn't heard of Exorcism's as the church didn't really talk about it. And this movie was the first to use a Ouija board as a gate to have a demon posses someone. At the time you could find Ouija boards in just about any toy store in the board game section.
I can't remember how scared I was when I first watched it but I do remembers there were a lot of late night radio talk shows taking up the subject of exorcisms after its release. Enjoyed watching your reaction as usual & hope you walked off the scarys.
At the beginning of the film, Father Merrin uncovers the head of a little figurine of the demon Pazuzu, whom he recognized because he had previously exorcised the demon several years before. So then he has a premonition later that another battle with Pazuzu is coming, with the clock randomly stopping and him almost getting ran over by the carriage. So to confirm his suspicions he goes to some old ruins where there is an old statue of Pazuzu and knows for certain when he sees the dogs fighting each other (the dogs of war have been unleashed). The dissolve to Georgetown right after is to show you where this battle between good and evil is going to take place.
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells album, from which a small piece was used in the soundtrack, is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded...Definitely worth a listen
Hey, Marijchu! My dad saw this in a theater when he was in his 30s and my mom said he came out white as a sheet! He refuses to watch it again. Lol. The demon likely gained entry to Regan via the ouija board and the Iraq prologue establishes Merrin as a former combatant of Pazuzu who recognizes the harbingers of his return. The priest faces the statue squaring off for a second confrontation and possessed Regan bellows his name when he enters the Georgetown residence. Father Merrin is played by legendary Swedish actor Max von Sydow who regularly starred in Ingmar Bergman films. There is a famous image of him as a medieval knight returned from the Crusades playing chess with a black-robed, white-faced Death on a stony beach in Sweden from Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" in 1957. There is a prequel to "The Exorcist" about Father Merrin's first encounter with the demon Pazuzu starring Stellan Skarsgard as a young Merrin in East Africa called "The Exorcist: The Beginning" from 2004 directed by Renny Harlin with some really terrifying scares that had people moaning with fear in the audience! Another really good movie about demonic possession is "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" directed by Scott Derrickson in 2005. The William Peter Blatty book William Friedkin adapted for this movie is based on a real incident in Missouri in 1949. A lot of freaky and spooky things happened during the film's production including a set fire, the deaths of nine people involved in the film, a back injury from a botched stunt suffered by Ellen Burstyn and a bit player who actually murdered someone for real six years later. The famous shot of Father Merrin standing in a shaft of light piercing the gloom outside the MacNeil residence is based on Rene Magritte's series of paintings called "Empire of Light". The green goop was split pea soup and the projectile vomit that splats in Karras' face was actually supposed to hit his chest! His shock is totally real! Linda Blair's incredible performance left such an indelible impression, she could never escape being associated with the role. Mercedes McCambridge, a veteran character actress from the '40's-'80's who lent support to many of Hollywood's leading ladies, was the voice of Pazuzu. She achieved the desired effect by gorging on raw eggs, chain-smoking and binge drinking before reading her lines! The Director's Cut features the famous "spider-walk" scene where a contortionist stand-in for Blair scuttles downstairs bent-over backwards like a spider! Karras' faith is renewed by his experience and the shock of Merrin's death. Only then is he able to expel Pazuzu from Regan by offering himself as a tasty alternative. Pazuzu opts for the priest's soul over the child's as the greater prize but is thwarted from seizing full control by the priest's newfound belief long enough for Karras to leap to his death thereby denying Pazuzu a host. When Regan kisses Father Dyer's cheek, it indicates to the audience she has been freed of the demon's grip. She has no conscious recollection of what occurred but seeing Dyer's collar stirs a subconscious compulsion to express gratitude. Some devout Christians feel this movie glorifies evil but it is actually a powerful example of the renewal of faith! Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras, is Jason Patric's dad.
"Dominion" is also the prequel to the Exorcist. Warner Bros didn't like Dominion so it was shelved and "The beginning" was recreated and refilmed, using lots of the footage, sets and actors from "Dominion". Dominion was finally released in 2005.
This movie isn't complete without a 'spider walk' scene, although that scene was not in original movie (deleted scene). I've seen this movie for the first time in theatre, in 1977, when I was 9, thanks to my clever mother, who brought me to watch this movie at the age of nine. Now, when I'm 53, I've been watcing this movie for some 40-50 times (I'm a movie collector for a 35 years now). Best horror movie ever, besides Poltergeist, The omen, Amityville 2: The possesion, and in newest era, Event Horizon, The others, Ghost ship and 30 days of night, to mention only few... Greetings from Croatia!
Yeah, spider walk might be the creepiest/scariest thing in the entire movie. If we could just get that scene in there without any of the other added ones, it'd be so dope.
I consider you, at 53, to be a youngster (I'm 76). You mentioned the spider walk, and you're right that had been deleted. I have a very different opinion about "director's cuts". I hate them. Basically, they're made by taking film off the cutting room floor and inserting it into the movie to make it more spectacular. The original director is not the one who does it, unless he's paid a lot and has sacrificed his integrity. The "extended version" is no longer the movie the director intended. As far as I'm concerned, the new version is always made merely to satisfy a public raised on jump scares.
@@ralphficker167 you wish to preserve the artistic vision of the director. I understand that but there are multiple reasons why things are removed such as thevstate of tech, time contraints, or it really doesnt add much to the story.
Yay! you crossed one of your movie lists 😄 I watched this movie in my home when I was a teen. Rented a DVD in the 2000's and I was already a high school student. I played the DVD when my big family had some kind of a family lunch. But I was the only one watching. Half way through, after seeing the medical procedures and the crotch-cross stabbing, I stopped watching. Not because I was afraid, but because it was so disturbing 😅 I finally managed to continue watching it alone several days later because I had to return the DVD. This movie is not scary. it's disturbing, that's what I wanna say. And I can't imagine people watching this in the 70's. I believe when people say they walked out of the theater.
Years ago I listened to the commentary by the director of this movie. It was pretty amazing. There is so much messaging and symbolism throughout this movie. He had a lot to say about pretty much every scene in the movie.
Realised i was sat in the same position of the Concern face meme when this started but after laughing at the "Go away ghosts!" at the beginning i had to stop myself chuckling before the movie started.
excellent reaction. this film is cult. what is interesting is that I have the impression that the special effects have not aged. one of the rare films where one does not laugh or nervously. and well done for watching it to the end.
Well done for getting through it, Mary. You were very brave to take it on. It affected me in the same way, if not more, when I saw it on VHS video in the early 1980's. I've seen a lot of YT reactions to this film and most people are affected in the same way, but a few seem to brush it off and disregard it. The film is a strange beast, and I suspect it depends how sympathetic you are to religion.
When this movie came out I took a date to see it, expecting a "normal" horror movie. My date made us leave at the point the bed was jumping around. I had to go back another time to see the rest of the movie.
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The paranormal and the space aliens abductions are not as impressive and shocking as it were before the internet. Still at the time of the late 90's the likes of the The Exorcist, The Entity, The Amityville Horror, The X-Files tv series, etc, evoked its audiences with mental concerns due to the mix of plausibility with the unknown. Now the access to information is virtually unlimited so people see these film's concepts as more implausible.
The law school question, the general rule in the US (can vary from state to state) is that a lawyer can break with the relationship and speak what a client told him in confidence only if there is an actual and imminent threat of harm.
This is still my all time favorite horror film of all time. I've also grown quite fond of watching reactions of this movie to see how each person reacts to the crucifix scene haha
Things you may have missed-- 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 Kharis/Damian's 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
You poor thing. Not easy to watch that movie alone. But it's a classic for sure. When it came out, there had been nothing like it. Theaters hired nurses to be present to deal with the many people who fainted or were overwhelmed and needed attention. Lines to see the movie wrapped around the buildings, sometimes for a block or more. It set the high mark for horror movies for decades...well, perhaps even until now.
You did do The Exorcist!! Brave girl! I first saw it when I was 12 years old, all by myself in a dark room. I was terrified. Probably more than any other movie. But then in college when I showed it to my friends, they all laughed through it. Was very disappointing.
I read the book when I was 9 years old. It was my policy to read anything I wasn't allowed to see. My parents were fine with me reading anything as long as I was reading. And so I read everything. I tore through most of Stephen king's early offerings before I was 10. The book fascinated me, but the movie terrified me.
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I did it!!! :D I survived THE EXORCIST!
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I gave your reaction a Like because you're wonderful, but I despise this movie.
Good. Please watch Casper(1995) for the next one.
Barely survived lol great reaction
There was alot of press about what the cast had to endure to make this movie.
Burke was her director, as well as a boor and an alcoholic, so no, not intimately involved with the mother, just working on the film together. First time I’ve noticed, just before the Help Me on the stomach scene, there is a hand written banner above the door at the priest’s office that reads ‘tasukete!’ which is Japanese for ‘help me’.
The crucifix scene is what finally urged Chris to find an exorcist and the help me on Regan’s stomach was what urged Karris to finally accept that an exorcism was needed.
Mercedes Macambridge, an Oscar winning actress from the golden age of Hollywood, provided the voice of the demon.
The story really is about Father Karras. He's a priest dealing with a crisis of faith as well as the guilt of his mother's death. Then he's forced to confront something he can't explain, which after investigating he's still not convinced. But in the end he commits the ultimate act of love and sacrifices his life to save someone he never met. Remember, he never met Reagan, only the demon.
The iconic theme is the opening piece from the album "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield. It was his first studio album, the first released by Virgin Records and, to my opinion, one of the most mesmerizing pieces of instrumental music I've ever heard!
Tubular Bells is a masterpiece. Even more so if you consider Mike Oldfield was between 17 to 19 years old when he composed and recorded it.
This is fantastic… he wasn’t commissioned to do this? How long before was it?
My apologies, I’ve never looked into it… I just assumed 🤷
@@StephenRansom47 No, he wasn't. The whole piece lasts for 40 minutes, it's one of those long progressive rock songs that last for the entire length of the album. He started composing back in 1971 and it was released in 1973. The album is amazing but that section that plays in The Exorcist is only the introduction of the album/song. William Friedkin did not like the original score composed by Lalo Schifrin, so he scrapped that and decided to look for other music. He stumbled into Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells who had just been released and loved it, so he used it in the film. It was not composed for the film, it's just an album that was released around the same time and got more exposure thanks to the film.
Mike Oldfield continued to create album-length pieces of music. Ommadawn is one of my favorites.
@@Jeff_Lichtman long time ago, in my country of Greece, the audience of the most popular radio show voted Ommadawn among the "100 Most Influential Albums Of All Time"
26:27 "I don't know if I want to go *outside* or stay inside forever, this is a tricky one.."
I laughed so hard I snorted. Thank you for shaving off a tiny bit of your sanity for your community on this one :D
I would never laugh about evil just because you don't think it's real doesn't mean a thing Im SURE you realize no one knows for sure about what dimensions exist that could be what some consider heaven and Hell
People please Mary is not suposed to be watching horror movies, of all the movies you can sugest. Anyway the reaction was 100% genuine and great in it's own way.
Great reaction 👍
Father Karris character is so complex and layered. His eyes are filled with guilt and pain. And he sacrifices himself to save a little girl that he had never really met. I think he wanted to save her because he never got the chance to save his mother. And it was Jason Miller’s first screen role.
When karras first goes into regans room the book describes it as: "His eyes locked, stunned, on the thing that was Regan, on the creature that was lying on its back in the bed, head propped against a pillow while eyes bulging wide in their hollow sockets shone with mad cunning and burning intelligence, with interest and with spite as they fixed upon his, as they watched him intently, seething in a face shaped into a skeletal, hideous mask of mind-bending malevolence. Karras shifted his gaze to the tangled, thickly-matted hair; to the wasted arms and legs; the distended stomach jutting up so grotesquely; then back to the eyes. They where watching him."
@sam lombardi it's fiction ffs
I watched this after midnight when I was house sitting my parents new house. Their dog was not allowed up on the couch, but after I was done watching this I brought him into the living room and put him on the couch with me. I then stayed up all night till the sun came up, and I was still afraid to go to sleep. :D
The scariest part of the movie is that the story happens to a normal family. There is no family curse or a haunted house. Thus, it could happen to you.
It is just around the corner.
The Exorcist is perhaps the scariest movie I have ever seen. I saw it in 1973 in the theatre and the audience went berserk! The Director, William Friedkin deserves praise for creating a movie so terrifying that it feels real and unforgettable.
Imagine how disturbing this was in 1973. In Ireland the Catholic Church had the film banned and it was only first released in public in Ireland in 1998 on the 25th anniversary.
That Exorcist song is titled "Tubular Bells" written by Mike Oldfield!
I like how your cat slept throughout the whole movie. That cat was saying, "I don't give a shit, I'm going to sleep." lol
I've called this the best horror movie ever made. It does absolutely everything so well, from the INCREDIBLE performance by Linda Blair, to the mysterious music, the grounded setting... it draws you in and just plain horrifies. Brilliant stuff.
the best is,the demon is not some stupid slasher,running arround... It is smart,cunning,and intelligent. And plays mind-games with you extremely well (as with Karrases mother)
Fun fact: The actor who plays Father Karras is the real life father of the actor who plays Michael in "The Lost Boys".
Ghoulish Fact: At 10:52 the pair of hands holding Regan's head are those of real life radiologist and SERIAL KILLER Paul Bateson.
He was convicted and imprisoned after murdering a gay man and he also bragged in prison about killing other gay men but they couldn't find any evidence about it. William Friedkin (the director of The Exorcist) was inspired by this to direct his 1980 film Cruising about a serial killer targeting gay men.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Editing. It made $440 million dollars at the box office against a $13 million dollar budget. It adjusted for inflation, it would have made $2.4 n
Billion worldwide. The movie is said to be cursed as most of the actors and crew got into unexplained accidents before and during filming.
There are those movies where some cast did die unnatural deaths , but when you consider during movie productions since 1990s have over 40 people died and 150 got life time injuries and one of the most accident prone company is Disney ... Harrison Ford broke his leg under Star Wars filming for an example .
Cocoon 1985 movie main cast is manly all dead , when Wilburn Brimley and Brian Dennehy died last year , leaving Steve Guttenberg to be only one still alive , was the movie Cocoon cursed ?
@@pete_lind Considering most of the main cast were past 70 years old, the fact that most of them are dead now (36 years later), shouldn't be all that big of a surprise :-p
Oh no Mary
OH NOOOOO
I'm so happy to see you survived! This movie was INTENSEEEE
My heart rate still goes up when I think about it :D !!
@@MovieswithMary Now there's a thought for next years Halloween movies, Mary wearing a heart monitor so we can all see how scary things are 🤔
Not so frightful as Evil Dead.....
Shoot, I spoke too soon........
O.G. is here
@@MovieswithMary true story 14 year old Ronald Doe 1949 Maryland
6:12 "If I ever am rich and famous..." Well, I can't say anything about rich, but you have 33 and a half THOUSAND subscribers on your channel. You are definitely famous for us!👍
Glad you watched it. One of the best horror films ever made. I don't think it will ever be surpassed. It's been scaring people for nearly 50 years and continues to do so with every new generation.
If you haven't heard it in full, the music is Michael Oldfield's Tubular Bells which is about 40 minutes and a lot more than what is excerpted. It's the album that founded Richard Branson's fortune.
This is an incredibly well made movie and to this day the only movie in the horror genre to be nominated for a best picture Oscar it lost out to The Sting another movie Mary well worth a watch.
The Exorcist is NOT the only horror movie nominated for Best Picture. Get Out was also nominated for Best Picture in 2018, and you can also argue about the Best Picture nominations of The Silence of the Lambs and Black Swan (the latter two are considered psychological horror in Wikipedia and Letterboxd but they may also be considered psychological thriller - however, a movie doesn't need to be only one genre, so they might as well be both).
@@krautgazer With 10 Nominations AND the sentiment to give awards or nominations to minority actors, you can't compare the two. So, if they decide to nominate 20 movies a year next year, that would mean a horror movie a year might get nominated. No comparison however can be made. I am sure they were not speaking about today's Politically Correct BS Hollywood that nobody respects. Great Movies in the 30s, 40s, '50s, 60s, 70s, and even the 80s, since then it's pretty much ht and miss with mostly misses.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is another disturbing film for a more modern audience. It's also based on a true story, and really leaves the audience with questions based on how they stand on the whole idea of exorcisms and possessions.
Ummm, Get Out, The Silence of The Lambs, Jaws, The Sixth Sense were all nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. We have to know our Hollywood movie history better.
@@MrRondonmon hahahahahahahaha.
Wait a minute. OK.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Funniest, most desperate comment I've seen in a while. Thanks for the laugh.
My high school theology teacher was the religious advisor for The Exorcist. He was a tall, old Jesuit priest who looked like the Max Von Sydow Merrin priest. Of course, we asked him if he had ever conducted an exorcism, but he would not answer.
Are you referring to Father Birmingham?
The Exorcist is based on a true story. The book (and movie) is based on the story of a months long exorcism, the last ever performed in the US.
Relgion isn't supernatural.
When this movie first came out it was very controversial. Morals were very different in the 1970s and this movie was unlike any horror movie made to that point. It took something that was whispered about and brought it up front and in color to audiences worldwide. It truly was ground breaking and still stands the test of time.
"Her brain didn't shake the bed, bro ... I mean doctor" ... 😆😆😆 ... Saw the re-release of this in the theatre with the 'spider-walk' scene that was originally cut because they thought it was too frightening. Of course her hear spinning all the way around was just fine.
Great reaction video as always, Mary!
I saw this when I was 17 and it was an assault on the senses, something never seen before. People were in the lobby crying, leaving the theater early and passing out.
This isn't just a great horror movie, it's a straight up great movie. One of my favorites, and I'm someone who doesn't give a shit about paranormal stuff. I don't like many horror movies, as most of them are just cheap jump scares, but the Exorcist knows what the fuck it's doing.
@Donatella Loncar agreed. what could have been paranormal nonsense is presented with almost a documentary type feel to it, plus the realistic performances of Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow and of course Linda Blair, all make this a true classic.
book is better
You don't believe? XD You will. I assure you
@newjackcity7862You being a nurse is supposed to convince people of the existence of God?
the drama makes the horror even more disturbing
The cross scene, your face was freaking priceless!! It made me laugh so hard! Sorry but I've seen this film several times and now it's not scary to me at all, but knowing what you're about to see is pure joy for me. Thanks for being brave and conquering this movie. You're so fun to watch Mary. Thank you for being so entertaining. ❤️😁
This movie scared me for a month. I saw it when it first came out in the theaters. I was only 18. It was crazy scary. Some people could not take it and walked out of the theater. Can you imagine seeing this on the big screen?
3:28 LOL Yes, Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
5:05 Ouija boards were actually toys before they started being used in horror movies, then, surprisingly, less people wanted them.
Kudos Mary! The Exorcist isn’t jump scare scary, it’s just just disturbing as hell. It’s really good as a horror, but it’s like a weird high-brow horror that always sticks with you in the back of your mind. So, I suggest watching a nice cleanse of, I don’t know, Disney Pixar movies for a few weeks. 😆.
By the way, the main location of this movie is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. The home and adjoining outdoor steep steps in the movie is a famous tourist attraction. Nearby is the prestigious Jesuit university called Georgetown University; it does have an attractive campus.
Also, the movie is based on a book by W.P. Blatty, which is inspired by a real child exorcism that occurred between 1949 - 1951. Part of the story took place just outside of Washington, DC in a Maryland neighborhood called Cottage City. A 14 year old boy underwent a prolonged exorcism by Catholic Priests first in Cottage City and then, after the family moved, in St. Louis, Missouri. Supposedly it was successful, though some think the boy faked the possession.
I wouldn't say highbrow. It's a mainstream blockbuster film, but there was more to them then than there is to a modern blockbuster..
this is a "smart" horror movie,with no need for cheap jumpscare shit! It makes you uncomfortable. And Friedkin tried to make it in a documentary style,everything is sooo realistic,wide shots,not many cuts,no shaky-cam etc... Untill the end,if u think about it,only 1 person dies (Burke),and even that is off screen!
And the demon is cunning,and smart,not some stupid slasher running arround with an axe!
Imo best horror ever made
@sam lombardi i read about these stories. Some stated that back in the day many horror movie crews tried to "make up" these stories,of unnatural things happening on set. To sort of hype up the movie... In original "Amitiville" they admitted of this.
Whatever the truth, Exorcist is the best
@sam lombardi and the whole set mysteriously burned down... Also,one doctor involved in that nasty procedure Reagan takes,was found to be a serial killer,years later!!! Weird stuff!?
You did better than I thought you were going to do. Good on you powering through it. This is one of the best classic horror movies.
I wasn't sure it was a wise choice but you made it through 💪, the song that you heard at the beginning was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
A great choice for you to watch! It's such an involving movie as you see Regan's slow descent and corruption. And you get introduced to Karras at his lowest point. The US at the time was dealing with a lot of crime, corruption, and disillusionment so Karras was like all of us in a way. Finding his way in the middle of the exorcism is a powerful journey for him.
I'm glad you were able to get into his mindset as the demon really shook him by initiating his mother and preying on his guilt over her dying alone in an institution. Your empathy is a superpower and you're a real treasure because of it! Thank you for sharing!
I've watched more than a 100 years of movies and this is the one that remains "the most affecting" after seeing it.
Yes agree. It brings out every emotion in me. Immersive as hell.
Nearly a year later... in Texas, there was a jewelry artisan names James Avery. He was small time, local craft fairs, etc. Excellent work. After this film, sale of his crucifixes went thru the roof and his work 'went national'.
The audio book read by the author is out of this world! I’d highly recommend it!
That’s one chill cat you got there, sleeping through all your reactions.
That guy who said "Regan, can you scoot over here" turned out to be a serial killer in real life.
Unlike everybody informing reactors about behind the scenes stuff with Viggo Mortenson breaking his toe while kicking a helmet. This story is less shared.
In the scene where the demon hits Reagan's mom and sends her flying. That scene used a rope tied to her waist that a crew member used to yank her across the room. The crew member pulled so hard he injured her back fairly severely. Not broken but slipped disks, or dislocation. That scream was one of actual pain.
Linda Blair injured her back as well during the scene when she's being sat up and down really fast.
The Exorcist is the GOAT. Nothing compares to this. You should watch the documentary on the effect this had on popular culture. It's amazing.
The bedroom set was built inside a freezer. Genius.
This is a pretty straight forward story about exorcism, but what makes it so special for me is its disturbing psychological impact. It’s really the corruption and defiling of innocents that gets to me. Every time we see Regan she gets progressively worse as the evil that occupies her eats into her body and soul. We watch a child decay before our very eyes. Every time it falsely presents as Damien’s mom, it defiles the memory he has of her and her voice.
Not many find it “scary”, but I was creeped out, anxious and scared when I first watched it. IMO, it’s *the best horror film to ever been made.
Edit: I do recommend for first timers to watch it alone at night, with the lights off, and without any distractions from your phone.
My mother loved horror movies. We saw this at the drive-in theater when I was about 4. It was difficult to watch since we were experiencing weird happenings in the house we moved into.
Hahaha! I was 5 in the drive in theater with my parents when they saw it. They figured I’d be asleep by the time it started. They were wrong. Scared me so much, but I love it.
When you see their breath, it was actually that cold in there. No CGI for this one.
Also disturbing fact that you probably don't want to know: the radiologist in the movie during the angiography is a convicted murderer
Also, that medical scene was and still is considered one of the most realistic portrayals of medical procedures in film.
The room was filmed inside a walkin freezer in order to get that cold breath effect
Also disturbing is that the guy who played Father Dyer (Karras’ friend) was actually a priest, and in 2019 was accused of abusing a high school student in the 80s.
The Cultural Impact of The Exorcist is a short doc on RUclips. Has footage of people leaving the theater. Some are shaking, some even faint.
I love that your cat is always there sleeping on that chair.
Ever since this movie a full head spin has been synonymous with possession. Generally as a parody, it’s that iconic.
It's great don't get me wrong but I really get hung up on the fact that Reagan could never ever possibly survive the demon doing that to her body.
I know it's supernatural and it's a dumb thing to care about but I just can't shake it
Nate, in the novel, the demon installs hallucinations in the mother and both priests. Thus the head turn, Karris’s mother sitting on the bed, the Pazuzu statue beside Regan when her arms are reaching up.
@@gregyear201 ohhhh.......nice! I'm majorly out of touch. I never knew this was a book also. Yes, I'm going to read it.
so nice that you understand the style of "the exorcist"! It is a psychological horror,not the todays jumpscare shit...
It's paranormal horror.
I feel like this movie really holds up, maybe not entirely on the scares (which are still really well done) but on the notion that this almost plays like a detective story. They rule out the obvious physiological and psychological causes of her behaviors before going to the metaphysical answers. On top of that, you mix in the genius story of a priest dealing with his guilt and how the demon seizes on that, almost like the priest himself is the prize, not Regan. I adore this movie because of all of that. On top of alllllll of that, though, the scares are legit. Modern movies tend to throw so much "HEY CHECK THIS OUT" stuff at the scares, whereas some of the scariest things in this movie are freeze frames of a face or a dresser drawer opening on its own or a line of dialogue. Brilliant movie, 10 out of 10.
You're one of the few people I've seen point this out. Reagan was the vehicle, but Karras was always the target to begin with.
I can attest to the priest’s challenges of taking care of an aging mother. Been there myself. Especially if they’re unhappy in their situation, don’t wanna be there etc.
"YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!!"
Just hearing this on TV from the next room was enough to make me sleep with my light on for weeks.
I finally watched it when I was around 28. After having played Dungeons and Dragons and getting that kind of mental exposure to all the kinds of things that can happen in the game (monster movies had become an examination about them rather than just being scared), I found myself more intrigued with the movie - but it was still really scary.
This movie is really, really rough. I can't think of any movie that left me more impacted.
It's a fun exercise to imagine this playing to 1973 audiences. People had not yet become hardened to the type of graphic violence we see in cinema today. People came out of the theaters quite traumatized by this film. "Trying to move on with life and pretending that didn't happen" was my favorite line of the movie.
I saw this when it came out. There were people throwing up in the theater and I saw one guy actually sobbing as he crawled down the aisle trying to get out.
YESSSS! FINALLY! The Power of Christ Compels You! ✝️
my mother in the 70s went to the cinema with her sisters to watch this and ran screaming from the building afterwards...they had many weeks of nightmares ;; ))
Scarrier than the movie is that the x-ray assistant in the hospital scene is a real life serial killer.
great reaction. This movie has been haunting peoples thoughts since it first debuted. As I understand, when it first played in movies. Some people got sick or fainted. Hope it doesn't ruin your sleep too much.
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15:57 when the mom lands on the floor hard, it was an actual injury caught on tape. Accordingly, there was a wire behind the curtain that was supposed to pull her so she can fly across the room and land safely on the floor. Unfortunately, the wire snapped and broke leading the actress to have a permanent back injury on her cocyx
The reaction to the room scene with the head twisting and the other stuff: priceless.
Such a great reaction. Don't think I have ever seen you drop the F bomb this much and it really cracked me up. My first time watching this was in the early 80s when me and a bunch of my friends had to rent it and a VCR at the time for a slumber party for my birthday. All of us guys starting to think we were bad ass going into our teenage years. It messed all of us up. And yes I did mess with a Ouija board one time in my life and it was the night of my 21st birthday. I don't remember too much about that experience other than it whatever happened freaked the f..k out of all my friends, made some people leave the party and I'll never mess with one again. My younger brother by 2.5 years still is very hesitant to talk about whatever happened that night, because his kids ask him all the time around Halloween; and to this day I'm not sure everything that went on that night. Great reaction to a great movie.
Edit: If my memory serves,, I think this movie is based on at least similar real life events of an exorcism story/attempt that happened in another country (Germany/Holland/The Netherlands maybe are immediately coming to mind, and I think that is what the book took inspiration on, but the true event involved a male boy/child I think.....) For a movie that is just about as equally disturbing I would recommend The original Omen (1974 or 1976 I think). The song in the opening credits may be the scariest piece of music ever recorded, even more than the Tubular Bells that was played in this movie. That movie also involves a child, Christian religious beliefs, and is also a movie that is more unsettling and unnerving than it does rely on jump scares.
I would've loved to see this movie in theaters when it premiered. The shock on people when after they saw it must've been priceless.
So good. As a horror film, it’s in a league of its own.
OMG Mary you just made my day, you have no idea... thank you so much!!!
The parts that always freaked me out the most were the hospital scenes where they hooked her up to the machines and stuck the needles in her.
They are terrible and they are sad because you know they tormented thousands of real kids with these procedures.
Loved this reaction, great job. It's absolutely my favorite movie of the horror genre.
I'm proud of you, Mary. You've come a long way in this past year.
When this movie came out in 73 a lot of the movie going audience hadn't heard of Exorcism's as the church didn't really talk about it. And this movie was the first to use a Ouija board as a gate to have a demon posses someone. At the time you could find Ouija boards in just about any toy store in the board game section.
I can't remember how scared I was when I first watched it but I do remembers there were a lot of late night radio talk shows taking up the subject of exorcisms after its release. Enjoyed watching your reaction as usual & hope you walked off the scarys.
At the beginning of the film, Father Merrin uncovers the head of a little figurine of the demon Pazuzu, whom he recognized because he had previously exorcised the demon several years before. So then he has a premonition later that another battle with Pazuzu is coming, with the clock randomly stopping and him almost getting ran over by the carriage. So to confirm his suspicions he goes to some old ruins where there is an old statue of Pazuzu and knows for certain when he sees the dogs fighting each other (the dogs of war have been unleashed). The dissolve to Georgetown right after is to show you where this battle between good and evil is going to take place.
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells album, from which a small piece was used in the soundtrack, is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded...Definitely worth a listen
If I'm not mistaken Mike Oldfield plays every instrument on the album.
Indeed he does...on subsequent live performances, he recruited the great Mick Taylor
@@johndavis7533 I still have my vinyl album.
@@billbabcock1833 As do I..several copies, even Quadrophonic
Hey, Marijchu! My dad saw this in a theater when he was in his 30s and my mom said he came out white as a sheet! He refuses to watch it again. Lol.
The demon likely gained entry to Regan via the ouija board and the Iraq prologue establishes Merrin as a former combatant of Pazuzu who recognizes the harbingers of his return. The priest faces the statue squaring off for a second confrontation and possessed Regan bellows his name when he enters the Georgetown residence.
Father Merrin is played by legendary Swedish actor Max von Sydow who regularly starred in Ingmar Bergman films. There is a famous image of him as a medieval knight returned from the Crusades playing chess with a black-robed, white-faced Death on a stony beach in Sweden from Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" in 1957. There is a prequel to "The Exorcist" about Father Merrin's first encounter with the demon Pazuzu starring Stellan Skarsgard as a young Merrin in East Africa called "The Exorcist: The Beginning" from 2004 directed by Renny Harlin with some really terrifying scares that had people moaning with fear in the audience!
Another really good movie about demonic possession is "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" directed by Scott Derrickson in 2005.
The William Peter Blatty book William Friedkin adapted for this movie is based on a real incident in Missouri in 1949. A lot of freaky and spooky things happened during the film's production including a set fire, the deaths of nine people involved in the film, a back injury from a botched stunt suffered by Ellen Burstyn and a bit player who actually murdered someone for real six years later.
The famous shot of Father Merrin standing in a shaft of light piercing the gloom outside the MacNeil residence is based on Rene Magritte's series of paintings called "Empire of Light".
The green goop was split pea soup and the projectile vomit that splats in Karras' face was actually supposed to hit his chest! His shock is totally real!
Linda Blair's incredible performance left such an indelible impression, she could never escape being associated with the role.
Mercedes McCambridge, a veteran character actress from the '40's-'80's who lent support to many of Hollywood's leading ladies, was the voice of Pazuzu. She achieved the desired effect by gorging on raw eggs, chain-smoking and binge drinking before reading her lines!
The Director's Cut features the famous "spider-walk" scene where a contortionist stand-in for Blair scuttles downstairs bent-over backwards like a spider!
Karras' faith is renewed by his experience and the shock of Merrin's death. Only then is he able to expel Pazuzu from Regan by offering himself as a tasty alternative. Pazuzu opts for the priest's soul over the child's as the greater prize but is thwarted from seizing full control by the priest's newfound belief long enough for Karras to leap to his death thereby denying Pazuzu a host. When Regan kisses Father Dyer's cheek, it indicates to the audience she has been freed of the demon's grip. She has no conscious recollection of what occurred but seeing Dyer's collar stirs a subconscious compulsion to express gratitude. Some devout Christians feel this movie glorifies evil but it is actually a powerful example of the renewal of faith!
Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras, is Jason Patric's dad.
"Dominion" is also the prequel to the Exorcist. Warner Bros didn't like Dominion so it was shelved and "The beginning" was recreated and refilmed, using lots of the footage, sets and actors from "Dominion". Dominion was finally released in 2005.
This movie isn't complete without a 'spider walk' scene, although that scene was not in original movie (deleted scene). I've seen this movie for the first time in theatre, in 1977, when I was 9, thanks to my clever mother, who brought me to watch this movie at the age of nine. Now, when I'm 53, I've been watcing this movie for some 40-50 times (I'm a movie collector for a 35 years now). Best horror movie ever, besides Poltergeist, The omen, Amityville 2: The possesion, and in newest era, Event Horizon, The others, Ghost ship and 30 days of night, to mention only few... Greetings from Croatia!
Yeah, spider walk might be the creepiest/scariest thing in the entire movie. If we could just get that scene in there without any of the other added ones, it'd be so dope.
I consider you, at 53, to be a youngster (I'm 76). You mentioned the spider walk, and you're right that had been deleted. I have a very different opinion about "director's cuts". I hate them. Basically, they're made by taking film off the cutting room floor and inserting it into the movie to make it more spectacular. The original director is not the one who does it, unless he's paid a lot and has sacrificed his integrity. The "extended version" is no longer the movie the director intended. As far as I'm concerned, the new version is always made merely to satisfy a public raised on jump scares.
The spider walk wasnt in the original because the wiring was visible but when the tech came to fix the problem it was readded
@@gdiaz8827 Interesting. But my basic point is about far more than the spider walk.
@@ralphficker167 you wish to preserve the artistic vision of the director. I understand that but there are multiple reasons why things are removed such as thevstate of tech, time contraints, or it really doesnt add much to the story.
Yay! you crossed one of your movie lists 😄
I watched this movie in my home when I was a teen. Rented a DVD in the 2000's and I was already a high school student. I played the DVD when my big family had some kind of a family lunch. But I was the only one watching. Half way through, after seeing the medical procedures and the crotch-cross stabbing, I stopped watching. Not because I was afraid, but because it was so disturbing 😅 I finally managed to continue watching it alone several days later because I had to return the DVD.
This movie is not scary. it's disturbing, that's what I wanna say. And I can't imagine people watching this in the 70's. I believe when people say they walked out of the theater.
Your face when the green started, priceless!!! I laughed so hard...😂
Great acting across the board! Love your comment "I don't want and children anymore!" Fantastic movie from the early 70's!
Well done Mary...you've come a long way. The Exorcist is so creepy but such a good horror movie.
Be careful with your fear! As Yoda taught us: fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. 😁
Years ago I listened to the commentary by the director of this movie. It was pretty amazing. There is so much messaging and symbolism throughout this movie. He had a lot to say about pretty much every scene in the movie.
"She really doesn't like the blood of the martyrs it seems" THE BEST
The "you're gonna die up there" line is said because the man is an astronaut. That's why Burke tells him there's a alien public hair in his drink too
I had an MRI done very recently. They are STILL very loud.
Realised i was sat in the same position of the Concern face meme when this started but after laughing at the "Go away ghosts!" at the beginning i had to stop myself chuckling before the movie started.
Mom: "She doesn't remember any of it".
Priest: "That's good".
Mom: "But I did take a bunch of pictures".
"Her brain didnt shake the bed bruh " 😂😂😂😂 great reaction, love this movie forever.
excellent reaction. this film is cult. what is interesting is that I have the impression that the special effects have not aged. one of the rare films where one does not laugh or nervously. and well done for watching it to the end.
Well done for getting through it, Mary. You were very brave to take it on. It affected me in the same way, if not more, when I saw it on VHS video in the early 1980's. I've seen a lot of YT reactions to this film and most people are affected in the same way, but a few seem to brush it off and disregard it. The film is a strange beast, and I suspect it depends how sympathetic you are to religion.
11:15, nothing to make a big deal from, just Regan working on her sit ups, that's all.🤭
"She really doesn't like the blood of the martyrs thing" ok I laughed out loud at that one 😆
It will always be one of the most important and powerful films of all time.
Freidkin couldn't help putting in a subway scene. ;) Check out the French Connection to see another Oscar nominated Friedkin masterpiece.
When this movie came out I took a date to see it, expecting a "normal" horror movie.
My date made us leave at the point the bed was jumping around. I had to go back another time to see the rest of the movie.
The paranormal and the space aliens abductions are not as impressive and shocking as it were before the internet. Still at the time of the late 90's the likes of the The Exorcist, The Entity, The Amityville Horror, The X-Files tv series, etc, evoked its audiences with mental concerns due to the mix of plausibility with the unknown. Now the access to information is virtually unlimited so people see these film's concepts as more implausible.
The law school question, the general rule in the US (can vary from state to state) is that a lawyer can break with the relationship and speak what a client told him in confidence only if there is an actual and imminent threat of harm.
This is still my all time favorite horror film of all time. I've also grown quite fond of watching reactions of this movie to see how each person reacts to the crucifix scene haha
It was one of my favourite movies to act in.
Things you may have missed--
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 Kharis/Damian's 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
I was a fifteen year old alter boy when this came out and I saw this in the theatre. Took quite a while to go to sleep that night.
A fun double feature is this and Rosemary's Baby.
Yes - two of the best horror pictures ever made . They certainly don't make them like this anymore .
You poor thing. Not easy to watch that movie alone. But it's a classic for sure. When it came out, there had been nothing like it. Theaters hired nurses to be present to deal with the many people who fainted or were overwhelmed and needed attention. Lines to see the movie wrapped around the buildings, sometimes for a block or more. It set the high mark for horror movies for decades...well, perhaps even until now.
The intro was totally hilarious with the background sounds. 🤣🤣
You did do The Exorcist!! Brave girl! I first saw it when I was 12 years old, all by myself in a dark room. I was terrified. Probably more than any other movie. But then in college when I showed it to my friends, they all laughed through it. Was very disappointing.
I read the book when I was 9 years old. It was my policy to read anything I wasn't allowed to see. My parents were fine with me reading anything as long as I was reading. And so I read everything. I tore through most of Stephen king's early offerings before I was 10. The book fascinated me, but the movie terrified me.