The Exorcist | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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  @WarewolfThereWolf · 3 years ago

  An often overlooked aspect of the story is that Father Karras never actually meets Regan, just the demon possessing her body.  His character is heroic and selfless.

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  @bigyeticane · 3 years ago

  At the end of the movie, Father Karras was receiving his last rites from his fellow priest just before he dies at the bottom of the stairs. His subtle hand movement acknowledges that he accepts the last rites with as much will as he has left. I thought that was kind of a cool detail.

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  @manaminani · 3 years ago

  I was laughing along with George when Simone reacted to him slowly turning his head (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z8s8wzg-eM&amp;t=2070">34:30</a>). Her “DON’T” And subsequent pouting was too precious!

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  @djfabianfontes · 3 years ago

  Almost 50 years after being released, &quot;The Exorcist&quot; to this day still remains the measuring stick to which all other horror films are compared. <br>That is legendary.

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  @mctown972 · 3 years ago

  Father Merrin walking towards the house in the middle of a foggy night has to be one of the greatest scenes in cinema history....

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  @scarletibis3158 · 3 years ago

  Linda Blair said that it was fascinating to see Max Von Sydow come to work in the morning as a robust 40 year old man, enter the makeup area, and come out an older man. &nbsp; She loved making this film. &nbsp;Btw the pills he was taking were nitroglycerine tablets for a bad heart. &nbsp;My grandmother used to have a little pillbox with nitroglycerine in it for her own condition.

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  @JonInLakeland · 3 years ago

  They actually put Max Von Sydow in old age makeup. Can you believe how well they predicted his actual old-age appearance?

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  @derekdecker555 · 3 years ago

  Good job Simone! Yes, the demons real target was Father Karris. In the book, it explains much more that demons often try to take people of faith because that’s the bigger prize. Also, it very much wanted a rematch with Father Merrin who had cast it out years before.

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  @raydurz · 3 years ago (edited)

  The demon that possessed Regan was Pazuzu, which was whom the statue represented. If I remember correctly it was also the demon that Father Merrin exorcised before, which is why the demon was so upset when he stepped into the house.

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  @bigredtlc1828 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Linda Blair deserves a lifetime Oscar for her performance in this movie. &nbsp;The trauma she must&apos;ve experienced and kept all these years. &nbsp;She does an amazing job in this movie. &nbsp;Incredible. &nbsp;When this movie hit the theaters, there were reports of people fainting during the movie and others just leaving as it was too much. &nbsp;Nobody had seen anything like this movie. &nbsp;The staircase sequence was not in the theatrical version but was added to the Director&apos;s cut.

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  @tomyoung9049 · 3 years ago

  Laughed so hard when George did that slow head turn and Simone looked so mad 🤣 . This is a long standing classic. Even some &nbsp;myths surround it.

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  @falcychead8198 · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z8s8wzg-eM&amp;t=2160">36:00</a> There is a real thing called (I think) the &quot;Stranger In the Mirror&quot; illusion, where if you stare at yourself in the mirror for a while, you get the strong impression that it&apos;s someone else. &nbsp;I&apos;ve done this to myself, and it&apos;s very unnerving. &nbsp;An hypothesis is that after a while your brain starts &quot;forgetting&quot; that you&apos;re looking in a mirror, and the cognitive effect is of looking at the face of some person who&apos;s staring at you.<br><br>We really shouldn&apos;t be encouraging this, but it&apos;s really funny when George scares Simone. &nbsp;This and when you watched The Sixth Sense (&quot;The guy behind you says it&apos;s OK&quot;) are two of my favorite moments. &nbsp;Poor Simone.

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