The Exorcist - appreciation thread

[filmcritic]

That's some scary stuff.

[filmcritic]

Yikes!

[rustinglass]

My exorcist (more like poltergeist) related story:

While my brother was studying in Lisbon, he had a friend who started doing drugs, soon after he developed some sort of mental illness.
At night he would sit down on the floor and have entire conversations with the television while it was static. My brother told me that some guys went there to try and help him out and they said that he just turned to the tv and said: "they're talking about me, aren't they?"..."I know"..."okay"...
I don't know what happened to him

freaky

[filmcritic]

What makes no sense is that an evil spirit can get in you, but not an angel. Let's not forget that there is evil, but also good.

[Cecil]

i wonder if the gibberish spoken by that guy is an actual language.

[filmcritic]

There is something interesting here...

Linda Blair obviously did a wonderful job. But William Friedkin was trying to figure out how to make her give a realistic performance but without causing any real pain to the child. So, they would shoot one scene and then they would give her a milkshake and then do another scene later. They continued to do this. The masturbation scene was something that she had no idea of what she was doing. Later on, of course, she learned what the idea for that scene was.

[filmcritic]

By the way, I believe that the film was edited on a street number of 666! That's some scary stuff!

[Ghostboy]

The masturbation scene was something that she had no idea of what she was doing. Later on, of course, she learned what the idea for that scene was.

I read something slightly different. William Friedkin asked Blair if she knew what masturbation was during rehearsal, before she knew about the scene, and she said something along the lines of "Of course, doesn't everyone do it?" I don't remember where I read this, however.

[filmcritic]

Ohhhh... Well, whatever the case, it's amazing somebody even thought up of things like that. Anyways, I heard that Billy Graham said that this had real evil in every frame of the movie. Wonder if that's true? Because Billy is very down to earth with stuff like that.

[jokerspath]

The masturbation scene was something that she had no idea of what she was doing. Later on, of course, she learned what the idea for that scene was.

I read something slightly different. William Friedkin asked Blair if she knew what masturbation was during rehearsal, before she knew about the scene, and she said something along the lines of "Of course, doesn't everyone do it?" I don't remember where I read this, however.

Well, if I'm remembering correctly, Friedkin found Blair masturbating with a crucifix (plaster, I believe) in a church in Honduras in the late 50's, providing him with enough inspiration to have someone write a book he could base a film on.  

Blair is little remembered from her adult film days, as she was cut out of a number of her features (most notably, New Wave Hookers) for violating contractual obligations (for appearing in The Exorcist, to boot).  

Good times...

aw

[chainsmoking insomniac]

Now isn't that a tasty nugget of truth.....

I had no idea Blair had such a checkered past.....very interesting.

[filmcritic]

I don't believe that at all. That's just one of those rumors.

[filmcritic]

But I'll tell ya what I do believe. When the film was released, people in the theatres were so shocked and so scared by the film, there was throw up in the aisles and people were having strokes in the theatre. They had to call an ambulance more than once.

[jokerspath]

I don't believe that at all. That's just one of those rumors.

That's less of a rumor and more of something I made up an hour ago while I was bored at work...

aw

[filmcritic]