This led to the bizarre spectacle of “Exorcist Bus Trips” where enterprising travel companies organized buses to take groups to the nearest town where the film was showing.ĩ. When originally released in the UK a number of town councils imposed a complete ban on the showing of the film. This obviously negated the need for fake breath mist which is prevalent in many modern movies.Ĩ. On one occasion the air was saturated with moisture resulting in a thin layer of snow falling on the set before the crew arrived for filming. It was so cold that perspiration would freeze on some of the cast and crew. The refrigerated bedroom set was cooled with four air conditioners and temperatures would plunge to around 30 to 40 below zero. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain – this was caught on film and adds to the realism of that scene.ħ. In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming. The scream of the demon being thrown out of Linda Blair was actually created by recording squealing pigs being driven into slaughter.Ħ. The crucifix scene was filmed with Linda Blair, who says she wasn’t totally aware of what she was doing or the implications of the vulgar acts.ĥ. William Friedkin felt they needed someone with more heft physically to perform the stunt, and the double was shot from the back. In the disturbing scene where Regan is masturbating with the crucifix, Eileen Dietz (as mentioned in number 3) was used for the shot where Regan belts her mother across the face. The face is, to me, the most memorable scene from the film and it still gives me a fright when I see it.Ĥ. The most famous is the demon face (seen above) – the face was that of Eileen Dietz who also starred in Happy Days and General Hospital. Very brief cutaways appear in the film in order to make the audience uneasy. On the first day of filming the exorcism sequence, Linda Blair’s delivery of her foul-mouthed dialogue so disturbed the gentlemanly Max von Sydow that he forgot his lines.ģ. In order to make him visibly shocked in the final scene, the director (William Peter Blatty) slapped him across the face unexpectedly and yelled “action!” Father O’Malley still teaches to this day at Fordham University.Ģ. The young priest who gave Father Karras confession at the end of the film was (and still is) a Catholic priest (Reverend William O’Malley).
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