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The Exorcist - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2022-10-20 12:00:06
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/YzsRp4oZL2 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

Movie runtime: 2:12:22

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The Exorcist - Patreon Version

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Armchair Rizzard
>>93959479

I once read a fascinating fan theory from a super fan about how the demon that possessed her isn't actually Pazuzu, since Pazuzu is a deity who does not have a history (in its mythology) of tormenting children like this.

Jonah

If you are watching on HBO max, as soon as the scene changes from the vandalized statue, pause until their timer says 36:41 on screen, and resume. you'll be synced back up after the missing scene.

Jonah
>>119314511

there's about 4-5 other small ones later in the movie, but that one was a big one and hard to figure out who was missing the scene and when to realign it.

Tradjick

A bit late: So the music is the opening theme to Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, George

Tradjick

With Simone's and George's reactions to this, I think they might really enjoy Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman

JediLounger

They watched the extended cut that was released in 2000, 2 hr and 12 minutes. Theatrical cut is just over 2 hours.

Thomas Yanez
>>93953112

Thanks! I'm always a little disappointed when the reactors don't get to see that scene on the stairs...

Erwin Quiachon

The ending sets up the "Exorcist 3", which was intended as the true sequel the original "Exorcist". Exorcist 3 picks up the story a few years later with that detective and priest, still mourning the death of Father Karras. They also are still trying to make sense of it all while they each struggle with their own faith in humanity. Exorcist 3 is all about them trying to find those answers.

Prof. Writhms

Regan was possessed by a demon named "Pazuzu". The statue was made in its likeness. Regan inadvertently summoned the demon with the Ouija board and it told her its name was “Captain Howdy”, befriending and speaking to her. Of course, later the demon revealed its true intentions. William Blatty, the writer, said he played around with a Ouija board himself and was convinced he was in contact with some sort of spirit.

Bob Bittner

Burke was her director, the drunken man at her party who accused Karl of being a Nazi.

JediLounger

Based on some of the things you guys said at the end of the video, you should watch the second sequel, but you should also consider watching Fallen (1998). Very underrated and trippy mystery/psychological horror movie.

William

Banned everywhere in 73. Great reaction guys to a great movie. Remember, when you are drunk with your friends, do not mess around with a Ouija Board, you will be possessed :)

Thomas Yanez
>>93961769

If by everywhere, you mean parts of the UK and attempted bans in two American cities, only one of which briefly stuck, then ok.

Odd Thomas

I like it. I respect it. I don't love it.

Persnickity

I think I watched the original version vs the director's cut (in the reaction). Seems like they added a scene on each end and extended the "action" scenes. What happened at the end for levity?? My version ended with the spooky piano and the priest looking down the stairs of doom

Eik104

Simone may disagree, but that head turning at the end was hilarious, George! 🤣🤣

Travis

Oh man lol. This should be good. This movie ruined sleeping for a 10 year old version of me for about 8 months.

Jeff

There are still exorcisms. Fr. Vincent Lampert is one that I know of. He's written books on the topic. One of the reasons a girl like Regan might be chosen is that she's an innocent child. Like they mention in the film, it makes people despair.

windyWin
>>93977325

Exorcisms are morally unjust and born out of superstition. I thank reality everyday that none of that stuff is real.

Daniel Goldberg

I read somewhere once that the demon’s real target was Father Karras and it used Regan as a means to get to him. I don’t know if this was just someone’s theory or if it was actually the author’s intent.

Athanor

I love this movie, but I'm always a bit sad watching it because of the poor conditions on set. People got hurt and the director in charge was reckless and pretty much abused others in the name of "art". One of those assholes that seems so prevalent at the time in hollywood (like kubrick) (not that hollywood has given me a lot to think that it works otherwise now...). Just a reminder that the way you produce something is at least as important as what you produce, if not more. We should all remember that, not only for the respect and good treatment each and everyone of us deserves, but also on a larger level for the environment. It's a lesson we have to learn fast. And I sadly can't get that out of my head when watching this absolute masterclass of a movie x)

Steve Mercier

The look of horror on Simone's face juxtaposed with the look of glee on George's face juxtaposed with...well...Satan's face, made this reaction very special.

Dee Aitch

I was thinking during the movie "it's a good thing for Simone that they're watching this in person so she won't be alone after the movie" and then the first thing he does is make her cry into her cup with the head turn.

Young Blood Priest

Now in my mid 50s and still too much of a chicken sh*t to watch this. 🙇🏾‍♂️

Chris Servais

Ive been looking forward to this one. The Exorcist is just a perfect, perfect horror movie, imo. You briefly touched on it mid-movie. Regan represents one of the few really believable, non-corny child actor performances in horror. The relationship between her and her mom feels warm and genuine. Father Karras' spiritual struggle and conflict feels...true, you know? Just altogether, the characterization that gives the movie depth just comes off as head-over-heels above most horror. Hell, I'd say above most movies. You're left feeling emotionally mixed, because the movie doesn't give you a tidy conclusion re: good and evil. And yeah, as with The Thing, the actual scary parts and special effects are still wild today. I like to imagine Father Dyer at the end is looking at those stairs and wondering whether he would have had it in him to make that leap. That sacrifice. There's obviously a lot of on the nose imagery, but some of the more subtle stuff going on really strikes me. Cheers, all!

Chase Schleich

Please stop doing the directors cuts, extended cuts, etc... Those versions are never on streaming. Streaming services only show the theatrical version and if we do have to rent a film, the different cuts are normally harder to find.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I once heard an expert on Sumerian mythology sort of poke fun at this movie because the "demon" the figurine is meant to represent was supposedly not considered evil, he was supposed to be protection against another deity (his ex-wife lol, no shit) that preyed on infants. They did say, "Evil against evil." I assume that's a reference to that. When this came out in theaters (I'm not that old but it's well known) some people in the audience were losing their minds, puking, fainting. Yeah Bill Friedkin was an asshole, both Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair suffered back injuries on set that turned to chronic pain. He fired a gun off near Jason Miller (Karras) to get a reaction, Miller told him he'd knock the shit out of him if did anything else like that and reminded him that he's a damn actor, he didn't need the "help". And at the end, when the priest is shaking and such as he gives Karras the Last Rites, that was a real priest, not a professional actor, they had done over a dozen takes and it was 3 or 4 AM, Friedkin wasn't satisfied and actually slapped the priest just before that take to get that reaction. William Blatty and Friedkin still argue over the director's other choices too, literally, in interviews they will argue, it's kind of funny. The novel is supposedly inspired by the allegedly true story of a boy from Missouri, Roland Doe (an alias), which had a happier ending. Exorcist 3 is my favorite of the entire franchise, Blatty directed it and I think he did a much better job, less body horror but a lot of creepiness. It's also got some pretty good humor, the dialogue and acting are great. Oh, just have to plug "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." In my opinion it's the best exorcism movie outside of this franchise, and based on the very sad case of Anneliese Michel, which involved an actual court case in Germany.

Thomas Yanez
>>93973159

In the extended ending, they do not play the music as he's walking away. He then meets up with the detective and they have an amusing exchange about seeing a movie, similar to the one that he had with Damien earlier in the movie. It sets up their friendship for "The Exorcist III".

Thomas Yanez
>>94001652

Fortunately, it's not all about streaming and some of us have physical media. I'm so glad this was the extended version, because Simone's reaction to the stairway scene was priceless, and repeatedly paid off again nearly every time she saw the staircase after that.

Curious

Her name is Regan (not Reagan) because Chris (an actress, you'll remember) named her after the character of Regan from Shakespeare's "King Lear". (This is discussed in the book.) The Woodstock mentioned is not Woodstock, New York or the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969. It was Woodstock College, a Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Maryland which no longer exists. Why Regan in particular is never resolved. Father Merrin's explanation "I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us." is as close as we'll get to an answer. I'm not sure it's ever clear at what point Chris decides that Regan is actually possessed. At first, she rejects the idea of an exorcism (offered by the psychiatrists at the Barringer Clinic only as a placebo). She then is persuaded that Regan killed Burke Dennings (the director who we saw at the beginning of the film, whom the demon seemed to have persuaded Regan was dating Chris, and who made a fool of himself at the party). She then actively wants the exorcism. But it isn't clear that she thinks Regan is actually possessed. She may just think she's got mental problems that incline her to murder (her having the strength and ability to kill Burke Dennings a byproduct of that insanity). Eventually, she screams at Father Karras that Regan needs an exorcism. By this point, she seems all in on possession (she *knows* that that "thing" upstairs is not her daughter). It's always struck me as curious that they don't make it clear when she changes her mind about whether Regan's condition is merely psychological or supernatural. Both the book and the movie leave the nature of the supernatural threat that seems to exist around Georgetown vague. The book suggests that the housekeepers' daughter is involved in some sort of drug culture that may be linked to the occult, and that they are somehow trying to rescue that daughter. This leaves open the possibility that they (directly or indirectly, intentionally or accidentally) made Regan vulnerable to possession. I always liked the bit during the actual exorcism where Sharon puts an earpiece in her ear so as not to hear the struggle upstairs. It has made me wonder whether William Friedkin (the director, whose other masterpiece is "The French Connection") was trying to suggest that somehow she was involved in the occult and felt guilt about having exposed Regan to the source of her possession. (She also knew what was written on Regan's body, which wouldn't have been an easy thing for her to figure out without having "special" knowledge of what was going on. How would she have known to look underneath her nightgown?) The actress who played Sharon was named Kitty Winn. An interesting bit of trivia about her is that she was the stepdaughter of General George Marshall, who was the Chief of Staff of the Army in World War 2 (it was he who sent Tom Hanks to get Matt Damon in "Saving Private Ryan") and Truman's Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. You may have missed that the clay Regan used to make the strange bird at the beginning of the movie is of the same colors as the clay used to deface the statue in the church. In the book, In the book, Lt. Kinderman furtively scrapes a bit of the clay from Regan's bird during his visit with Chris intending to have the D.C. police lab compare with the clay from the statue. But both in the movie and in the book, it's not clear what Kinderman's understanding is. It would make the most sense if he imagined a group of Satanists or cultists or disaffected Catholics were causing the various crimes, not that there was some supernatural evil at work. FWIW, in the book, it's clear that he's Jewish (as was the actor Lee J. Cobb, born Leo Jacoby). Regan's demon voice wasn't done by Linda Blair, but by an actress named Mercedes McCambridge who had done some major films as a young woman ("All the King's Men" and "Giant") and who had done a fair amount of horror/thriller radio, including several episodes of the classic "Lights Out" radio program. If I understand correctly, this wasn't advertised when the movie was released, the filmmakers wanting the audience to believe that Linda Blair did the demon voice on her own. There are five total movies in the Exorcist franchise so far (a reboot is in production). Two are sequels. Two are prequels. The only one really worth watching, in my opinion, is The Exorcist III, written and directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the novel The Exorcist. (Blatty, an alumnus of Georgetown University and also of nearby George Washington University, also briefly appears as some sort of studio executive early in the film, apparently trying to persuade Burke Dennings to eliminate a scene from filming). The Exorcist III includes the character of Lt. Kinderman, now played by George C. Scott (of Patton) and Father Dyer (no longer played by the first film's technical advisor, actual Jesuit, William O'Malley, a professor at Fordham University in New York and later at Seattle University, but by an actor named Ed Flanders, probably best known for the t.v. show "St. Elsewhere" and not to be confused with Homer Simpson's next-door-neighbor and nemesis). It does not have either Chris or Regan MacNeil. It's not nearly so good as the first film, but it's engaging. And it has at least two scenes that are genuinely great horror. In fact, it could be argued that one of those scenes is as good as anything in the first film. It also attempts to answer some of the "what about" from the first film. I don't think it does so successfully, but it is entertaining.

redddfer44
>>93999352

Interesting! Maybe it's cultural differences or own family background or something, but to me the relationship between mother and daughter never felt real. For me, it was kind of difficult to take anything seriously after that.

redddfer44

TORILLE! ("To the marketplace!" in Finnish. Tradition requires that anytime a non-Finn mentions something Finnish -- Nightwish in this case --, we need to call out a national celebration at the marketplace.)

redddfer44
>>94009181

Cool trivia, thanks! According to Wikipedia, the reboot idea has been scrapped or rather transformed into a "direct sequel" to the first one, as is popular these days.

Alex Ch

I think the use of music is better in the theatrical. Which do the rest of you prefer, I’m curious?

FranciscoGios

Yeah the 360 degree head twisting the running down the stairs and the demon posing in the bed is the high light of the movie for me.

redddfer44

The Omen (1976) touches on some issues you mentioned and it is clearly a movie that wouldn't exist without The Exorcist.

JWheezy

Chivas George? Chivas!? Get a single-malt for god’s sake! You’re supposed to be a connoisseur! Perfectly acceptable to enjoy Chivas but if it’s your favorite and you’re not a bonafide alcoholic, I just can’t understand. My guess is you’re actually a Quinta Ruban guy. Get this sorted please. Thank you.

REDR58

Max Von Sydow is in an excellent spy movie from 1975 called "3 Days of the Condor" with Robert Redford and the movie (among others) influenced Captain America and the Winter Soldier.

Jason Rivero

I would also like to throw my hat in the ring of reacting to Part 3. Brad Dourif's performance alone makes it worth the watch.

Daniel Popp

I was way too young when I saw this movie as a kid, but it didn’t affect me as bad as it did others. My older sister was having a sleepover with friends when I watched it. It freaked one of her friends out so bad the friend woke up from a nightmare screaming and crying. Couldn’t go back to sleep and had her mother come pick her up in the middle of the night.

Justin Wolford

Now that we have watched The Exorcist can we watch Constantine? Keanu Reeves does great exorcisms in that movie.

Herman Orff

Simone, you have excellent instincts for the psychological architecture of a film: the final scene with Father Dyer and Lt. Kinderman DOES lift the mood in a conspicuous way. Director William Friedkin agrees with you, which is why he cut that scene for the theatrical version. That was one reason he himself preferred the theatrical version over the Director's Cut (though he himself was the director).

Herman Orff

The other issue is the infamous "spider walk" scene. (You're not alone -- it still creeps me out, too, and I'm in my late 50s.) Friedkin always felt that scene didn't fit at that point. Two reasons: First, as Regan's appearance and behavior gradually worsened, the film’s tension gradually increased. Friedkin felt the 'spider walk' broke that slow ramping up of tension -- it was too big a jump on the horrid scale. I think he’s right about this. Second, a moment before the shock of the spider walk was the shocking news of Burke’s death. Friedkin felt the two shocks were too close together; they diluted each other. I feel he's wrong about this, however. Yes, it’s unorthodox to deliver a second shock immediately after the first. But the fact that it’s unorthodox works in its favor. We’ve all experienced shocks in movie plots before, but almost always they come one at a time, each followed by an easing of tension. So after we hear of Burke’s death, we’re TOTALLY unprepared for the spider walk. Which makes it even more shocking. (Of course, the increased shockingnessiositude makes the problematically problematic problem in the previous paragraph even more problematical in its problematicism.)

Opti_Frog
>>94517289

My understanding of why the spider walk scene was cut in the theatrical version was always that it didn't really work as a special effect. The stunt person was hanging on wires, and there was no way for them not to be seen until they could be removed digitally.

Hewitt Colebatch

Do watch Exorcist 3 as well! Written and directed by the original author, William peter Blatty so he had artistic autonomy. Stop no. 2 though yuk.