For 1973, NO ONE had ever seen a movie like this. It was extremely shocking and terrifying to people. My parents have mentioned how crazy the buzz was when this came out.
There was like a scary feeling in the air when this movie came out. very similar feel to Alice Cooper who' scary legend followed him about. It was all so mystical and forbidden for us kids. \m/
there are many videos of the time, many people left the movie theater nervous; I remember when they interviewed a boy and he said that he preferred to go see her during the day. It was all phenomenal for that time.
Sometimes the creepy parts are not just the crazy stuff going on,but those periods of utter silence that follows.a real catch your breath moment,till the next scare.
I saw this in 73 i was a teenager , i didn't sleep for a month after lol , 6 people passed out in the cinema, religious groups stood outside trying to stop people going in. it was an incredible film and the start of the blockbuster era .
Don’t pick down on the 70s. It was the coolest decade so far. Great movies, music, over the top great fashion and so on. You missed the party girls! 🕺🥂👌🌼
Right on, about four or five trips to the moon and back. The space shuttle was first launched. There was a little bit of fear about the Commies trying to take over but other than that gasoline for the most part of the 70s was under one dollar a gallon.
@@christianhernanalancamaren1582 Each decade has its particularities, its good aspects and its less good aspects, its regressions and its innovations. I lived during the 70s and 80s and, believe me, the eighties are just as exceptional. I have books about each decade and I have a blast reading them.
1970s - Exorcist, Alien, Jaws, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Star Wars, Earthquake, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Buck Rogers, Black Hole, Halloween, Friday 13th, The Deep, Superman, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Star Trek: TMP.
Yes they were! We did not have all the crybabies that we have today. The ones that look for things to offend them. And we did not have groups that are grooming the children today. So gross!
I hate peoples when they say things were better back then ,those people have short memories,yes 70s were a great time ,so is every decade b4 and since,there was just as many problems back then as there is now
I have to respectfully disagree with you sir. The 70's, 80's and 90's were way better than today. We have too many crybabies today that get offended by everyone. I hope that these crybabies here on UA-cam that monitor these comments dont put me in their dumb jail like Facebook does. Freedom of speech has been taken away from us. They flagged me yesterday for "bullying" and I was not bullying. I was saying negative things about thugs that are rioting in France and apparently they got upset because I was being not so nice talking about criminals. This is the dumb world that we live in now. This is why I say that it was alot better way back then, than it is now. Too many crybabies that get their little wittle feelings hurt today.
50 years later and it's STILL the most terrifying movie, ever. I noticed by the end of the movie you three were all holding onto each other. It shows the human nature of the need to connect, and that it is STILL scary and BETTER than 99% of the films out there. The 1970's - 1990's made the BEST movies.
My Catholic mother watched this in her college years whole visiting home and my grandparents snitched and told us she came crawling into their room that night and had to sleep between them.
Many people were so spooked the first time they saw it that some theaters brought in actual Catholic Priests to offer counseling and other religious comforts to people in the audience. A girl I went to junior high school with who was Mormon saw it and was haunted for three months. She came to school shaking and crying with fear and had to have counseling very secretly during the day. I'm not sure if maybe something very real and paranormal was actually bothering her irl. A man I spoke to said that when he first saw the movie and he went home, his infant daughter was breathing, similar to the way Regan was breathing while possessed. It freaked him out so much that he had his baby baptized the next day.
Did you know that author William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist was inspired by the actual 1949 exorcism of a young boy from Cottage City, Maryland, and the horrifying 1634 Loudun exorcisms? The story goes that Blatty heard about the Maryland case while he was a student at Georgetown University.
Yes they did know it was based on a true story, though likely not the specific details you've outlined. They mentioned at the beginning and again at the end of their commentary that they were aware that the story was said to be based on true events.
@@richardherdman2121 true even ghost adventures did 100 episode in season 10 whole episode on it on that event, they even visited the same house when that happend in 1949. although they didn't catch hard prove but they deffently could feel air in the house of darkness.
Although what you fail to mention------Blatty's novel turned into a major motion picture was greatly exaggerated-------nothing like in the movie ever happened in real life...!
Yup! Which is why I didn't understand in the beginning them saying that it's a true story. It's sort of a true story but with completely different scenarios.
As frightening as the visuals were, the musical score, "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield, added a magnitude of creepiness that made the whole film a sinister work of art.
i liked the scene in the film when you first heard 'Tubular Bells" - i believe the mother is walking through a nice part of Georgetown, leaves are falling, trick-or-treaters run by her, all very charming compared with what's to come.
The Exorcist is still the most shocking horror film ever made. They defined how horrible and disgusting demon possession on film could be. What Regan does or the demon does with Regans body is truly horrifying.
The fact is is that the 1970's were considered the second "Golden Age" of Hollywood. Many absolutely fantastic films came out in the 70's. Films with intelligent scripts and great acting. Hollywood today doesn't put out anywhere near the quality of films it did in the 70's. Plus, the greatest rock music was made in the 70's.
I absolutely agree. There are far too many incredible movies to name from the 70's. I was fortunate enough to have grown up in that time era. Rocky was one of my favorites. The 70's certainly hit a new era in film making and the acting was top notch on some of the most brilliant scripts in a generation.
The 70s was an incredible time for cinema. (I was born later but the 70s was always my favourite era for film). There were some amazing blockbusters but also a lot of very incredible pieces of art that pushed the envelope.
Coppola, Scorsese, DePalma, Cassavettes, Friedkin, Carpenter (heck, even Lucas) - the list of visionary, gutsy filmmakers from that particular decade just goes on and on . . .
@@stargazer1238 i agree with you there, "70 and "80 where golden age off movies. like Lethal Weapon that came out in "87 and Die Hard from "88 that changed action movies from there on with Die Hard as the blueprint for it considered by most people.
sadly this genre of movie has been overdone the last 20 years so this movies impact cant be fully felt by newer generations. but even then, this movie still the has the most realistic depiction of demonic possession and thats why it still holds up. it doesn't rely on cheap jump scares and cliche story/dialogue. its truly a masterpiece of film making.
Ellie survived a movie that made people sick when it originally was released at the movies. Ellie is no longer scared of movies like this because she is much tougher today. She is now ready for Sinister. A movie based on pure fiction. Blue had the best reaction when she saw her walking down the stairs. Blue screamed so loud it made you worry for her.
@@Muckylittleme No it wasn't in THIS reaction. Which was the only disappointment for me in an otherwise great reaction. But TrixyBlue did react to it on her channel. Blue was part of the Homies about a year or so ago. & I think her channel's still associated with the Homies. I'd have loved to have seen their reaction to this particular scene.
@@Muckylittleme They probably watched the wrong, originally released, version. Not the later released version, with it included. Or they edited it out and it’s on Patreon, perhaps?
This movie was only scary to audiences in 1973. Since then, we've all been so desensitized to violence, death, and religion, that the only scary movies left are the ones about FOMO.
The Homies: The Blueberry Void: When I was 20 in 1973, I saw The Exorcist in a darkened, sold-out movie theater with great sound and projection. I had to leave a light on to sleep that night. You say, "I want to see what's up with people running out of theaters?" You won't - not why some ran out when the demon's voice first came out of Regan when she slapped the doctor, for example, as well as in other parts of the movie. No one had ever seen a demon's voice convincingly and shockingly coming out of a little girl's mouth before that and what was to follow. At your age you probably can't understand how different American culture and theater audiences were in 1973, how much more impact the movie had because it was the first serious high-quality horror and demonic-possession movie ever made, how shocking the graphic language and realistic violence were for 1973 audiences - AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - when thinking about what to say in a reaction video instead of watching in silence - it is damn near impossible to grasp how believable the movie is because of how it slowly drags you into the story with believable, likable, true to real life characters long before presenting the parts of the movie that are hard to truly believe - all of which made the horrific story MORE BELIEVABLE and seem more real. Instead, you'll probably be conditioned by today's horror junk movies to expect the special effects to superficially scare you rather than the story that most of us would not have thought possible in 1973 but the movie made it seem possible, and knowing it was based on a true story, just the possibility the movie made us seriously consider that demonic possession really was possible and how horrifying it could be made it, BY MILES!, the most frightening movie experience ANY of us had up until 1973 AND AFTER (the proof is in the pudding - the audience reactions in 1973). You might grasp that it was and is a scary movie, but no way will you "see what's up" with why it was" BY FAR, the scariest movie EVENT any movie audience ever saw or ever will see.
Karl is their butler. The medical procedure with her neck is called a Carotid Angiography. Usually the catheter is placed somewhere in the groin area or arm but can be placed in the neck. a small amount of blood is released so an iodine based dye can be injected in to arteries so the show up on x-ray to see if there is any blockage in arteries between the heart and brain. It's an invasive procedure. There is a less invasive procedure using ultrasound but it can miss things. It is still a medical procedure used today. This was considered the most unsettling scene in the movie.
true now a days its used by c.a.t or mri scan, that are way better now is then in 1973, i know got that procedure to check up my right under leg that i broke at 3 places.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Best Adapted Screenplay Best Sound Editing It made $470 million dollars ($1.3 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget. It's said to be cursed as some of the cast and crew got into unexplained accidents before and during filming.
if you didn't know, the name of the demon is Pazuzu, the king of the demons wind in Mesopotamia/Sumerian/Babylon. He could be bad but most of the time good!! use/call as a protector against diseases specially for pregnant women and against most others demons. not a lot of peoples catch the wind meaning that you call, nice one .....specially if you didn't know about him!!!
@@jean-rochdion4898 Pazuzu was like a mob boss you pay for protection. Pazuzu was evil but an evil you could bribe to keep his minions from paying you a visit and his rival went after pregnant women and newborns. He didn't care for children just wanted to keep them away from his rival. Also Merrin had battled Pazuzu in the past in Africa. Pazuzu brought locusts and famine
It's essentially a metaphor for the demon, who's violently invading Reagan's body also, just like the medical equipment. It's a great way to make us feel what the demon is doing inside her.
Fun fact: the male assistant with the beard during that scene ended up serving 20+ years in prison for murder and was suspected of being a serial killer.
@@bsjett also that actor that scolded the butler for you know what, actually died few days after stair scene, even the set cought fire few times. and the mother with crucafix scene actually hurt her back with life long injury after backhanded slap to her face. also in the bar scene where damien confess he lost his believe in god was actually talking to a real priest that was working as consultant from church for the movie. actors and crew during filming this movie believed it was cursed, with serveral people died and all of those accidents on set.
Wow! What a reaction! A few times there, I thought Ellie was going to throw-up! A couple of those scenes _were_ *truly* disgusting! I read about Blatty's writing of 'The Exorcist'; he spent a *lot* of time researching cases of possession/exorcism, in the 1800s and 1900s mostly, along with some earlier ones. He wrote 'The Exorcist' using things that had happened in those cases, that had witnesses! The book became a very big best-seller; then Hollywood bought the story. When it came out in the theaters, it developed a real reputation as something that some people had real problems with. People walked out of shows, much more often than had happened with any other movies. But it still became a *huge* hit! I don't think you watched the Extended/Director's Cut, which has a *really* freaky scene in it (it wasn't in the theatrical release), that has Regan doing a mind-boggling move, coming down the stairs, looking like some sort of insect/spider! Go search on YT for "The Exorcist (1973) Spider Crawl" - *very* freaky!
oh YOU should check ELLE watchin Sixth Sense, for not having overly bloody or disgusting scenes she was scared sh it by the dead ghosts. She needed to call Larry (guy who edits these uploads) and he was a bit sick and came and sat with her lol
I wasn’t born when this movie came out, but my parents said the hype was unreal. No one had ever made such a scary movie before. According to my mum, there were nuns outside of movie theatres telling people not to watch
it was unreal. the energy in the audience was pretty scary itself, people screaming, hiding their faces, some headed for the exits. in 1973 the film was considered heavy stuff and yes the church was up in arms about it.
@@DMC2983NL my girlfriend and i went to see it on a dare and she couldn't sleep for many nights. i wasn't much better. audiences then had never before seen images quite like some of those in the film.
@@haintedhouse2990 i believe that, such films is not for every1 that i know for sure. First time i saw it when is was 12 years old with food for whole movie and watched it in middle of night lights out, and when movie was finnished whent to bed and slept 16 h straight with no issue.
I was only 10 years old when this movie came out. There was an older girl in the neighborhood that would often get to go see rated R movies. She would then entertain the rest of the kids in the neighborhood with a blow-by-blow of the entire plot of whatever movie she had recently seen. She was 12, a bit of a Tomboy and was often the source of legends and tall tales told in our neighborhood growing up. If there was an urban legend to be told, she was the one telling it. So there we are, all straddling our bicycles in a circle in the middle of the road while "Lucy" thrills us with every gruesome and sacrilegious scene in The Exorcist, all delivered with the goriest details and all the F bombs included. The imagery my mind created at her detailed descriptions of key scenes was seared into my mind. I did finally get to see the highly edited version on TV sometime later and eventually the full version about 10 years later on HBO but I will always remember Lucy's vicarious retelling of the movie as my favorite version. The other stand out movie that I remember her telling us about was Tommy by The Who. I still have never seen that one. But in a away, I kinda have .
I loved your reaction to this film. Believe it or not, the medical tests and equipment seen in the film were cutting-edge for 1973. They wanted everyone to see that every possible medical procedure was being tested prior to the exorcism. The bedroom set was refrigerated so the priest's breath could be seen because they didn't have computer graphics at the time. That also means that Linda Blair (the girl) was freezing during most of the filming. The room was also up on these things that allowed the entire room to shake like an earthquake. The footage of the priests falling down was shot when the room was shaken. I think the thing a lot of us are interested in is your own personal opinions on this and the topic of the paranormal. It's one thing to hear other people's accounts, what are your own? Have you ever dared go to a place you've heard was haunted? Have you had any encounters of your own? I'm curious because your culture might be significantly different from other people who've seen this. I'd love to hear you tell us about your own experiences. If you haven't had any, have you tried going to places where you could have a paranormal experience?
Linda Blair suffered back injuries due to the back spring board in the bed when violently bouncing up and down as well. Fun facts: -The green vomit Megan spews, was pea soup. -Linda Blair recieved death threat letters after the film's release. -Linda Blair dated Rick James, and even Rick James's song 'Cold Blooded' was written for her. -Linda Blair starred in soft porn films when she was older and did nudes. Such films were 'Savage Streets' and 'Fatal Bond'.
This is my faulty memory on the topic so take the fallowing with a grain of salt. There is a lot of back and forth on what was real and was cover up on the original story, so it's kind of hard to keep the original bits right. But... The Exorcist, the original book is VERY loosely based on a real story, the child was a boy, he was from a working class family not a well to do one, and he resisted tons of "modern" help before the church was finally contacted and brought in, they conducted multiple exorcism rights day after day on the boy, brining him to the church in town for each one, until he reached a point that he was too weak to be moved, I forget where the last Exorcism was held, but it wasn't a church, and it's then they gave the final right they needed to go through and the boy was free of the demons. He lived I believe until at least his late 60's and still has living family members. However the boy's cousin I believe started acting strangely, and it was uncovered too late that the demons had taken him, and if I recall he committed murders before he was stopped. Or so the story at the time went, there are conflicting versions of what happened outside of the boy, the demon possession, and eventually being free of it. The boy's name also changes due to the fact that they originally tried to keep their original names hidden from public to prevent unwanted attention.
I think he knew at the end that he would not be able to complete the exorcism by his self. The only way he could save the girl was to get the demon to come into himself and once the demon transferred to him he knew that sacrifice would be the only way for him to succeed. I think what happened in that room came very close to breaking him permanently but talking to her mother, in that moment he regained his faith. He may have faltered but in the end he pulled it together for one last battle for the soul of that little girl.
People of the modern age would say those people of the 16th century and before were stupid , superstitious , ignorant people believing in demons ,possesions, exorcisms when today , we know better. Today we have science , psychiatry , medicines , able to treat these things and so we know better today .No so ,not really . Even with all our modern science , tech, many would say demons , possesed people still exist but in more subtle , devious ways. Many would say those controlling this world , super rich , inhuman , elites , are like posessed individuals , they do whatever Satan tells them to do and are rewarded by him accordingly with super riches and wealth . It's worth considering this , I think.
True,, but if you look back on the dialogue the demon was saying beforehand that it was wanting and welcoming the priest to dwell with them. It was all orchestrated by the demon to kill the old exorcist and to take the soul of the younger priest.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Karras came to his faith again when he remembered the righteousness of selfless sacrifice, the same way that Jesus was sacrificed to purge the sins of the world. Karras was the true exorcist.
Based on a real story- it was a boy not a girl that’s depicted in the movie. It was not in Georgetown but occurred in St Louis, MO USA. His real name was never revealed and lives a normal life somewhere in Maryland, USA. That house and the steps the priest fell to his death is near Georgetown University in Washington DC on Prospect St. My sister had to watch this during her orientation at Georgetown University; she was grateful there was a priest sitting behind her as she watched the horrifying movie. I’ve been to those steps.
Michelle, you asked about paranormal. The third time I watched this movie, now in my 40's and after the hits from life, I felt as if someone was in my room and ESPECIALLY my bed right next to me when I went to sleep that night. It did get to me as I could relate to the story a bit more. So the stories of people sleeping with the lights on were true. As for more non personal paranormal experiences, you can look up what happened on the set. There was more of that.
I read the William Peter Blatty Book after watching the movie. In the book, the story is more centered on Father Damien, while in the film it is clear that it was necessary to focus on the character Regan because it was necessary to explore terror.
The Girl was insignificant. The Demon was after Father Merrin (for Exorcising it once before) and Father Karras, A Priest that was losing Faith. Father Merrin recognised the Little Stone head in the Rubble, and the Silver Medallion was His, from when he Banished the Demon before. The Demon placed it there to let him know it was back and Coming for him. So, in the End, the Demon "Won".
Hi Ladies, it’s Clint from England, actor and movie lover. You have asked some real creepy experiences. This happened so it’s scary just going through it again. When I was 16 and home alone for the weekend it’s Friday night. Watching a “movie” and this shadow on the wall kept walking fm one end to the other and just repeats it self. For a few minutes inside and out trying to work out where this figure was coming fm. Now I’m getting freaked out. The shadow kept repeating walk from one side to the other. My heart was racing not wanting the shadow to suddenly jump off the wall at me, for real I’m convinced it’s a ghost at this point so anything could happen. I’m alone no one to laugh it off with just pure fear, plus it’s the mid 90s no mobile phones. I didn’t know what else to do but leave everything on and go up in my room. Left all lights tv, I was f-#ing scared. When I wake in the morning, everything is off. With the bright of day I still was scared, went downstairs the front door was open and everything was off. I know I left everything on. The shadow was gone and never returned. He most of been a lost ghost and let himself out the door eventually. Turned everything off before he left out of politeness. 😂 I might laugh about it now but it was terrifying at the time and still gives me the creeps when I talk about that one. 😎 you ask for it so I had too share. Love your reactions Ladies big 🤍 from England.. Clint
So many elements add up to make this movie as disturbing as it is. For me, the sound design is really key. It adds to the amazing visuals to make the viewer feel overcome with the story. Great reaction! Happy Hallowe'en all!
11:05 The movie didn’t explain it…but in the book, when Regan told that man at the party that he was going to die up there…that man was an astronaut, who had an upcoming space mission.
They say this caused a lot of people to panic and pass out from when this came to theaters. Now you’ve to see part 3 of this. You’ll find it very interesting and unusual
@@fkingshame7537 The Hospital scene when the nurse is checking the room is worth the price of admission alone. It takes everyone by surprise when they see it for the first time. It's always mentioned when they rank the scariest scenes in movie history.
A good friend and myself rode our bikes up the street one block to watch this at another friend’s house late one night back when this came out. I know, I’m old lol. Anyway, when it was over, we were going to ride back to my house. At the intersection under the street light, a cat was lying in the middle of the street looking at us. The reflection of his eyes was creepy as hell. My friend rode his bike about six blocks out of the way to avoid the cat. 😂 That movie scared him good.
I shared a room with my little sister and when I came in after the movie, she sat up and talked in her sleep looking straight at me! I slept on the couch!!! 😵
You can learn more about the history between father Merrin and the demon if you watch "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist", it's pretty good. I think the archaeological dig at the beginning of the movie is the very spot where there use to be a satanic temple which is in the movie I mentioned before, Lankester Merrin was doing some kind of service there, as a priest, it was his first battle with this demon, but not the last, he became familiar with it.Thanks for this great movie reaction!
I'm 55 years old and have had experiences of seeing, feeling the presence, hearing and being touched by spirits since I was 4 years old. The spirit world is real. Life after death is real. I worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for 12 years, and that work not only took me to some seriously haunted old hospitals and nursing homes all over NJ and NY. It also unfortunately surrounded me with death on a daily basis, with is rough to say the least on a Sensitive which I am.
When I saw that you girls were going to watch "The Exorcist", I laughed. I thought to myself ..... "I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when they see that one part." :D The cross scene would scare anyone. But it affects women differently. Well, it was fun watching you girls jump and hold hands throughout the movie!
We came to America and this is our first horror film back in 1980s, my siblings watched it and it scared the shit out of them. I didn’t watched it I was a toddler/or still a baby back then.
Another exorcism movie based on a true story is "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" her grave is in Germany but her name was changed for the movie. And yes girls possessions still happen today. I am a Deacon in a church and have seen 3 or 4 people possessed over the last 10 years. This movie you have just watched has been over dramatised for the movie so its not actually like this. Although it can be worse but in different ways. Have a nice day ladies. :)
The writer, William Peter Blatty was inspired to write the novel The Exorcist after reading an article about a 14 year old boy who was suspected of being possessed.
Excellent reaction, I was waiting for it for a long time girls, I remember hearing that at the time this movie was released in theaters it was very famous because people left the theaters before finishing watching it, there were cases of people vomiting and fainting too , I remember that this movie traumatized me as a teenager hahaha 🤣... Another movie about exorcisms that I like to see is "The exorcism of Emily Rose"😱, which is based on real events😰, I like how the debate between science and religion and since in the end everyone believes what they choose to believe, I highly recommend them. Also another highly recommended one that traumatized me again as a teenager is "The Blair Witch Project"😨, I would love that one day they can react to those two movies since I don't find many reactions from those two😊.
When I was young my family was poor and we had to live in a house occupied by at least one spirit. Nobody was harmed or possessed. Objects would move, locks locked and unlocked, record needle arm would lift up and move around, a guitar would strum itself, jumping on the bed noises upstairs, a black car drove up and disappeared, drove my uncle on his bike off the road one time, an empty chair scooted up to the dinner table. It would quiet down for a couple of days when my mom would put on a Christian album on the record player.
I still think The Exorcist is the gold standard of horror films. Not only were the horror aspects bone chilling but everything about the movie was amazing from the acting, character development, family issues, religious conflicts, cinematography, and music. The Exorcist is as deeply affecting today as it was over 50 years ago. But The Homie's viewpoint is totally understandable given today's generation who prefer jumpscares, gimmicks, and CGI to quell the attention deficit disorder. LOL!
Around 1990 in college my friend T.M. rented a big house with a few other girls and she said it was haunted and she saw a full body apparition of a guy dressed in early 1900's clothes. When she turned to look at him he stopped walking and turned to look back at her and they stared at each other then he turned and walked into a closet door. She didn't believe in ghosts before that. She said her and her roommates played Oiuja a few times and it moved like crazy around the board. She always told me to bring a few friends over and try the Oiuja in the house. Well we did one night. The planchet was flying around the board answering Q's in a bad way and bringing up past events in our lives. We went into a room where a guy hung himself around 1930 and the the Oiuja got crazier. Then the room got ice cold when it wasn't cold anywhere else or outside then the furniture started shaking, then jumping off the floor. It scared the sh*t out of us and rarely a day goes by where I don't think about it. I didn't know about the dangers of Oiuja boards then but I do now. You couldn't pay me to play with one again. My friend B.H. couldn't even talk about it when I brought it up until 2 years ago. He's still pretty freaked out also.
I saw this movie in the theater with friends when I was about 13. One of my friends was eating all kinds of snacks during the movie and my friend sitting next to him did feel sick and had to leave to get sick in the bathroom. He did return to see the end. It was quite the experience seeing it in theaters.
12:10 The movie was a film-adaptation of a 1971 novel of the same name written by William Peter Blatty, who based it on an alleged exorcism of an anonymous 14-year old boy from Cottage City, Maryland in 1949. The boy was known by the pseudonym 'Ronald Doe' and what was written in newspapers at the time was given by Luther Miles Schulze, former pastor of the boy's family.
43:51 A couple of detectives claimed to have seen a man in a red suit, clown make-up and green hair dancing down those stairs. He seemed in his own world, like possessed, and he looked jubilant as if he's gained somekind of power. For some reason they tried to arrest him but they ended up in critical conditions and the man escaped. Being at the hospital one of them whispered some words: "Fleck...Arthur Fleck"
I thought those were the same stairs, too, when I saw a trailer for Joker, but they’re not. Those stairs are in New York City. But the stairs in this movie are in Georgetown in Washington DC.
This is a great movie and I'm glad you ladies had the chance to experience it. So here's a paranormal story: My parents were very young in the '70's - sorta like black hippies, if you will. When I was a baby, my dad was giving me a bath while my mom was in the attic, drawing a pentagram on the floor (just to be screwing around). She swears a red smoke appeared from the middle of the pentagram, and she ran out of the attic to us in the bathroom. I truly think the house I grew up in was haunted. I have other stories but that's all for now.
I saw The Exorcist in ‘73 when it was released. Several people walked out, especially after the masturbating and head turning scenes. The movie didn’t affect me in anyway, to date it remains one of my all time favorite movies.
I‘m happy that there are so many new reactions to this film right now. The first time I watched it when I was quite young and when it was over I rewound the cassette and directly watched it a second time. I think it is really a masterpiece.
When we left the theater... in '73... there were people crying, scared, and all of us, stunned, by what we'd just seen. It was THAT good and That scary. One of the best horror films, Ever !!
Based on a true story; Blatty, Friedkin and Hollywood made this movie with genius and Hollywood magic! There will never be another movie like this again!
I personally went through demonic attack and attempt at possession, the attacks disturbingly lasting for decades and involving more than two dozen other people - most of whom had no idea what was causing the things happening to or near them until they told me and I explained it was part of being near me during it (or didn’t explain to them and just acted like “oh wow, that’s weird”…. I didn’t and still don’t *usually* talk to people irl about it due to doubts and arguments that come). Horrible sounds, things moving on their own, objects not owned showing up, electronics working themselves, and worse…. To me, to people who knew and were involved, and to people who didn’t know but were nearby physically or close to me as a person. For example, in the military barracks I was stationed in the soldiers in each room next to me had unexplained events scaring the hell out of them…. Bizarre sounds recorded on their answering machines, coming back to their rooms with all the furniture slewed about, nightmares they’d not had before. On the other side of my room a later soldier had the issue of having items of theirs smash against our shared wall on their own. Couple years down the line when it was quite intense but I was holding up against it I was sitting in my kitchen as my husband washed dishes and we were chatting. I had a sudden horrible mental flash of him stabbing me repeatedly with one of the kitchen knives, acted normal and just kept doing our thing…. when he got done washing dishes he went to go to the bathroom and as he was leaving the room he wobbled like he was dizzy and fell against the wall before he caught himself. I was worried about him and asked if he was okay and he looked at me pale faced and told me he’d just had flashes/urges to stab me with a kitchen knife. Lots of horrible stuff to me directly that I don’t want to talk about as it still upsets and scares me and makes me I’ll feeling.
Ladies Remembered this movie was released about 50 years ago. During filming this movie, producers hired an adult actress to step in as Regan (Linda Blair) for most disturbing scenes of the movie. Her name is Eileen Dietz. Eileen is about 15 years older to Linda, who was about 13 or 14 at the time. Amazing part is that it still holds up today by your reactions. We have to give thanks to late legendary special makeup artist, Dick Smith and his crew. He and his crew made Eileen (most disturbing) and Linda (possessed Regan) and Max von Sydow (Father Merrin) as older man in his 70's to 80's as Max was about 45ish at the time. He and his crew created rotating head of possessed Regan. This movie became 1st horror movie nominated for Best Picture during Academy Awards. In 2010, Library of Congress selected this film to be preserved in its National Registry.
O. M. Double. G You’ve watched a movie that my beautiful parents took me to go see at the age of 5. My childhood ended after that movie a bit traumatized. Love my homies
In regards to the question as to why Karas needed church approval, exorcism is a rite so naturally you need to get permission, and also it would allow him to summon all the authority and power of the church. And no there have been a lot more possessions in recent times than simply the one that this movie was based upon.
I saw the exorcist in 1974 in the cinema in my city, I was only 10 years old, I was terrified but I LOVED it, I liked horror movies, well, I liked the cinema of the 70's A LOT. (I grew up with the exorcist, shark, Carrie, the shining, all very good creations, UNTIL TODAY) a true masterpiece of terror, unique and unrepeatable.
Hi Homies. Hope you don't have many nightmares after watching this. 🤣 "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" is a really good movie as well. Based on true events, and the possession/exorcism portrayal is more realistic for an (alleged) possession. Although really good, parts of "The Exorcist" are a bit over the top. Also watched your reaction to "Train to Busan". Glad you're willing to do non-english movies. Would like to recommend the French movie "Brotherhood of the Wolf". The english dubbed version isn't too bad, but really needs to be watched in French w/subtitles. And the Russian movie "T-34" is pretty good too. Has a bit of a different storyline for a WWII movie. This one definitely needs to be watched in Russian w/subtitles, as the english dubbed version isn't very good. Anyway, looking forward to what's next. 😀 Happy Halloween. 👻
The movie and book were based on a real event that happened in St. Louis in 1949. The exorcism was performed by Jesuit priests associated with St. Louis University. The diaries the priests kept of the exorcism are in the library at St. Louis University. You can access them online. Fr. Walter Halloran was the real life younger priest who assisted in the exorcism. A friend of mine was attending SLUH in 1972 and a priest pointed out Fr. Halloran to him and said, "that's the guy who had his nose broken by a kid possessed by the devil." My friend didn't understand what he was talking about until the movie came out a year later. Most Catholics had never heard of the Rite of Exorcism until the movie. Fr. Halloran did have his nose broken during the exorcism. He also served two tours of duty in Vietnam. He earned two bronze stars. What a badass! I heard an interview with Fr. Halloran many years ago which is somewhere on the internet. He seemed down to earth, warm and friendly. One thing I remember he said was, "that kid could spit with amazing accuracy. He hit me right in the eye every time."
My exp.. Im born in 1975 do the math 😆. But anyways as a kid one time i camped out at my grandma's house she has lot of land so back in the 80s i was a kid we had a hang out and all as the family had a party and all we myself and cousins and other kids were outside playing but way back out its very dark and my uncle had a 1967 impala lowrider parked out back under a carport so we kids playing out there and we go to the carport where the impala is at we see a old lady all in white sitting down it was no person you could see threw her she looked sad and there was another ghost i will say he was wareing a top hat smoking a ciggereate wareing a jacket and tie a suite..so what I did i got a rock from the dirt ground and I grew it to the old lady sitting there and the rock went threw after that we all saw that and ran back to my grandma's house we told one of my tios he went out back and said nothing was there..till this day my cousins and the others saw what we saw and this was mid 1980s...
What I like more than anything about these old movie reviews is how engaged the audience is. They just don't make movies as good as they used to. Character development, storyline, etc. you can just see how drawn in these people are from the look in their eyes.
My Bulgarian Queens ❤❤❤ where’s Lia ? can you please react to the movie Four Brothers (2005) it’s one of my favorite movies and would love to see you ladies react to. Shoutout from Atlanta GA
Trivia: Jason Miller (Father Karras) is the father of actor Jason Patric (The Lost Boys). Jason Patric’s mother is the daughter of the late Jackie Gleason.
Winter in Kentucky, 2000-2001; night: a friend and I went to the house where his brother lived throughout the summer and fall. He was evicted after failure to meet payments. My friend, Michael, and I went to salvage any of his or his brother's belongings that may have been left behind. The security light was still active but power in the home was shut down to avoid bills and trespassers from taking advantage. Mike and I both had flashlights but to avoid wasting battery power, we lit the candle on the coffee table. As Mike sifted through the mail, I looked up and seen a dark silhouette at the left window. For a moment, I thought someone was standing outside and was too stupid to realize their shadow from the security light was giving them away. But, I soon realized it did not seem the "shade" of shadowing considering the power of the light. It seemed off. Soon, as my eyes focused better, it looked as if it was no 2-d on the window shade but actually a shadow standing on it's own in the room. I did not want to believe that so I moved left a little ad that was when I could tell this shadow was definitely in the room standing on it's own. In disbelief I asked Mike "Is that a ghost?" and Mike looked up and said "No, that is your shadow." I then told him "Mike, the candle is in front of us casting our shadows behind us." I remember watching Mike look behind us to see our shadows, as I said, then look back up to this other shadow and his mouth literally dropping open in disbelief. He soon realized it was standing in the room with us, not a shadow-silhouette cast onto any surface. True story.
New to your channel, this film is a classic. I really enjoyed listening to your reactions. I was really freaked out by it back in the day not as much today but still a freaky story. Anyhow was fun seeing a new fresh look at it through you guys. Great channel! Cheers✌️
A long time ago I read somewhere "Satan's power is so great and one of his best tricks has been convincing the people he doesn't exist and that God is just man's invention", so far he (Satan) has done a good job as a lot of people does not believe in demons, spirits or even God existence; and I say " do not fear those things you can see, fear those you cannot as they exist in the dark side and in the occult parts of your souls"............. they are more real and dangerous that we think.
You wanted to hear a personal supernatural story...... well here is one. Ever since i was a kid, I have always been able to sence things around me. Some were good and some were not so good. Now as an adult, I dont mess with anything supernatual and here is why. I was invited to a friends choir show in Princeton, New Jerey. They sang in a church called Trinity Church. Now I usualy dont go into churchs beauce, almost every time I go in, I get a very strange vibe and its not the good kind. But my friend invited me and i couldn't say no. So I go, find a seat, and wait for the choir to start. I see my friend. She sees me. We wave to each other. All is good. The shows starts. They sing a couple of songs. It was great..... so far. Then they start to sing a song in a different languge. As they sang, I was wondering what they were saying. Suddenly, I see the choirs white shirsts started to glow bright and a womans voice close on my left ear, translating what they were sing. I quickly turn around to see if someone was behind me sing. But when I did, I saw two young boys that looked to be about 4 and 5 years old. "Oh" I think to myself and turn around. A few seconds later, the white shirts started to glow, and the same womans voice sing in my left ear. I quickly turn around again, but I saw the same two young boys. My breathing become quicker, and heart was beating loundly. I become uneasy. I turn to face the choir again and felt nervuse and i little scared. But I tried to shake it off beauce I was here for my friend. When, the white shirts glow bright for the third time and the same voice is in my left hear. This time, I slowly turned my head, everthough my gut was telling me not to look, but I did anyway and still saw the two young boys. Slowly turning my head back to face the choir as my body tences up and shake a little. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain on my spine and it was going up. It felt like someone was digging into my skin. Then my lower jaw started to hurt. At the same time, I felt stong pressure on my forehead pushing to it the left as my lower jaw was bing pushed to the right. In my head I siad. "Oh hell no! Stop it! I won't let you!" The pain and the struggle lasted for about a minute and it suddently stopped. The choir show has ended. I told my friend what had happened. She was stunned and had no words. We hugged good bye and I went home. This is why I dont go into churchs.... except weddings and funerals. Other than that, no thank you. I can also, recall an other time something supurnatural happened to me in colleg, but that is a little scarier beause I came face to face with a possession. But that story is for an other time. And yes. Everything I told you is true.
There's movies out of about 50 good horror movies, I never thought u would have the guts to do. I would put hereditary in the top 5!! The descent, barbarian, hereditary, the exorcist, hellraiser, drag me to hell, the ring, the grudge, lights out(watch the 2 minute short first!😮)the woman in black, the Conjuring, insidious Annabelle La llarona, Nun movies... It's all part of the Conjuring universe. The first Halloween and Friday the 13th, The Omen, Hellraiser, first evil dead trilogy, and I'll throw in 1982 The Thing, for the gore factor. But the exorcist, is THE horror movie all others are judged by!! Ironically, max was only 42 when he filmed this, he had trouble getting jobs after this because directors thought he was older! Linda did a masterpiece acting job here and should have got a lifetime Oscar. The director William Freidken kept the room at 40 degrees, fired pistols by the actors heads to scare them, and the green slime went into the young priest's mouth wasn't supposed to happen, that's why he looks so surprised! He was a cutting edge director! Max ironically not long before this, did maybe the greatest Jesus movie ever made, the greatest story ever told! He also did Conan, 3 DAYS of the Condor, minority report, and others! The moms back was permanently hurt in the scene where she's thrown down. Linda had to have round the clock security for about 8 months, because people were convinced she was possessed! She couldn't get much work after this either. The detective is a masterclass actor. Arthur Miller first saw him on stage, and said he wrote the play, death of a salesman, for him. He was in the acting masterpiece, 12 angry men! The voice actor is a woman who smoked cigs and drank whiskey every day of her life! She purposely went uncredited for this film! Orson Welles called her the greatest voice actor of all time! This movie, The Thing, Alien and Bladerunner, prove beyond a doubt, that practical effects a are way better than special effects, robotics, and CGI! This also tells u, never get a Ouija board! Somehow without explanation, part of the evil figurine and the Catholic pendant made it to DC. Where they were originally buried in Iraq, I'm sure the pendant was used to keep the demon inside the figurine. But when the Ouija board came out, it released the demon!! Type in here, news footage and stories of people leaving the theater from, The Exorcist 😮😮😮
I think this movie has the reputation of being "the scariest movie ever made" and it leaves this idea that we will be terrified. But I think modern audiences would find this movie to be quite tame. But it is a good drama even if you don't find it scary. The whole idea of an atheist going through modern medicine and psychology and science can't explain what's happening. So the only hope being a priest who is losing his faith and is telling you to retry all the methods you already tried. Also this movies actually pretty faithful to the book. Only thing I can really criticize about movie v book is there seemed to be less focus on the detective and there was some dialog between the preists that I liked that wasn't in the film.
While Blatty, a comedy writer, had based the story on what had been reported back in the 1940s-50s, decades later the subject of the reports came forward and said that he created the situation in an act of teenage rebellion. He later became a scientist with NASA.
I was a kid when this picture was released to much fanfare amidst rave reviews. It is incalculable just how much this film influenced pop culture and the other films of the genre. To say the least it was a big deal nationwide and made the young girl that played Regen a huge star. Thanks Homies for this little reminder of my youth. It took me back on a little trip to the early 1970's and I could really feel the nostalgia, almost physically, upon viewing some of the more iconic scenes. As with the head twisting action and the green slime projectile vomit. Thank you guys for bringing this to us. And thanks for your priceless reactions to this great Horror Classic. You girls are a real class act. I enjoy your style a lot. All of you are funny as hell. Your wicked cool attitudes keep me returning time after time. Once again thanks for all you do. Big shoutout from your guy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. Still watchin and diggin it. Take it easy. See you on the next. Much peace and lots of love y'all. Later.
first time i watched this i was 7 in 1984 and being looked after by my cousins and they decided to tie me to a chair in a room alone and forced me to watch this and they didnt come back until the tape rewinded. today i own over 2000 horror flicks and this is still the one that moves me..
I have one weird story for you girls. My father and my grandmother's brother were playing pool (or billiard) and my father was wining, he only needed to put the 8 ball into the corner hole and that was it, he hited the ball and it seemed he was going to win when my grandma's brother shouted out loud "where are you going?!" to the ball and i swear the ball just stoped. It didn't went slower until stoping but just stoped right there were it was. It was about 20 years ago and i'm still wondering if the ball was afraid of him because i just don't get it.
This classic can be watched many times to appreciate the actual film making as opposed to the story itself. Lighting, ambiance, etc.. What they build and went through in the bedroom in the third act was unreal, massive refrigerators so you can see all the actors breath. All practical effects, no CGI way back then 😈
From Eddy Solano yes, this is based in real facts, for example not only the levitation , the head turning , most of the scenes are based on the possession !
Movie fact: The actor who plays Father Lankester Merrin was only 44-45 years old at the time this movie was released. They had to make him appear much older than that for him to be a convincing character. Yes, the movie is based on a true story, only the possessed was a boy in Cottage City, Maryland, US.
Great to see you 3 ladies watching with clasped hands; a shame that us guys, at least in my gen, would never allow themselves to do that! I saw the film upon its release, and the things that made Ellie's face contort so much (great visuals!) were magnified 10 fold on the silver screen, and with several hundred in the audience reacting!!!
Great reaction as always young ladies! To answer a comment, this did not happen just once. The Vatican to this day has a dedicated small team of experienced Exorcists that are always active, given the number of people in the world compared to their miniscule number. Strict criteria must be met of course, ruling out completely all aspects of earthy disease, both psychological and physical. Not hard to find info on this in our information age really. Often people that choose to not accept the presence of evil in the world, call it demonic or just evil people; rationalize it all away to avoid having too much of the real world upset the comfortable little box of beliefs they are most comfortable with. I've noticed over all my many decades on this spinning mudball there are many things that defy current scientific explaination. The crux is this: If you believe in just one of these things, it sorta opens that uncomfortable door as to what ELSE is around... .
So my paranormal experiences come from my wife's family home. It's over 100 years old in the Philadelphia suburbs. There were times when my daughters were young that their toys would turn on with no batteries in them. My oldest daughter while she was in the crib would point to the corner of the ceiling and say "scary man!". One night, my wife and I were sleeping, and I wake up to a horrific screeching sound coming from the top corner of the bedroom. It sounded like part animal, part human...never heard anything like it before or since. Immediately after the screeching stopped, my wife woke up saying she heard someone calling her name. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't witness this stuff myself. Most people think I'm either lying or crazy, but i know what I experienced.
There were some scary things that happened during the filming of this movie. The death of nine people. Over the course of filming, nine people associated with the production of The Exorcist died. ... The set of Regan MacNeil's home (the possessed protagonist) burned down. ... A 'blessing' was performed on set. ... One of the most unsettling movies and most frightening. I was a kid when this movie was released and I had nightmares that lasted a long time after seeing only a few scenes.
paranormal things have never happened to me, only once I was on the terrace looking at the stars with my aunt and I realized I saw a dot moving in space very quickly. the dot went back and forth, left and right, it could not be driven by a motor because it moved irregularly in every direction. my aunt confirmed the dot, even today after years, we think we saw some kind of alien spacecraft that day, I don't know, if I had been alone that day I probably would have forgotten this story this is the strangest thing that has happened to me haha
For 1973, NO ONE had ever seen a movie like this. It was extremely shocking and terrifying to people. My parents have mentioned how crazy the buzz was when this came out.
When I was a kid people were saying that people were fainting in theaters. Ambulances were everywhere. lol
There was like a scary feeling in the air when this movie came out. very similar feel to Alice Cooper who' scary legend followed him about. It was all so mystical and forbidden for us kids. \m/
Not just for the 70s, its still extremely shocking today.
there are many videos of the time, many people left the movie theater nervous; I remember when they interviewed a boy and he said that he preferred to go see her during the day. It was all phenomenal for that time.
@@christianhernanalancamaren1582 Last House on the Left, was nauseating a few people too.
this movie is so good that 50 years later it still scares people
"Nosferatu" is 100 years old. Have you seen it?
@@redknackers142 Nosferatu is not scary. by the 50s it was considered quaint.
Still packs a punch.
Sometimes the creepy parts are not just the crazy stuff going on,but those periods of utter silence that follows.a real catch your breath moment,till the next scare.
I hope no one has plans to reboot this,it,s scary as is.
I saw this in 73 i was a teenager , i didn't sleep for a month after lol , 6 people passed out in the cinema, religious groups stood outside trying to stop people going in. it was an incredible film and the start of the blockbuster era .
Religious groups trying to stop people's watching it, haha, 😅 so funny to hear that
thats real...
36:14 i would have said that to the religous group😂
Ditto.
People in the movie theaters actually fainted.
Don’t pick down on the 70s. It was the coolest decade so far. Great movies, music, over the top great fashion and so on. You missed the party girls! 🕺🥂👌🌼
Right on, about four or five trips to the moon and back. The space shuttle was first launched. There was a little bit of fear about the Commies trying to take over but other than that gasoline for the most part of the 70s was under one dollar a gallon.
You & I were there. We know.
it is true, that decade has very good movies in almost all genres.
@@christianhernanalancamaren1582 Each decade has its particularities, its good aspects and its less good aspects, its regressions and its innovations. I lived during the 70s and 80s and, believe me, the eighties are just as exceptional. I have books about each decade and I have a blast reading them.
1970s - Exorcist, Alien, Jaws, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Star Wars, Earthquake, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Buck Rogers, Black Hole, Halloween, Friday 13th, The Deep, Superman, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Star Trek: TMP.
Believe me, the 70's rocked! Things were a helluva lot better than they are today
absolutely. much more relaxed, simple. with the exception of leisure suits it was awesome.
somehow I highly doubt that (w the exception of the movies ofc) lmao
Yes they were! We did not have all the crybabies that we have today. The ones that look for things to offend them. And we did not have groups that are grooming the children today. So gross!
I hate peoples when they say things were better back then ,those people have short memories,yes 70s were a great time ,so is every decade b4 and since,there was just as many problems back then as there is now
I have to respectfully disagree with you sir. The 70's, 80's and 90's were way better than today. We have too many crybabies today that get offended by everyone. I hope that these crybabies here on UA-cam that monitor these comments dont put me in their dumb jail like Facebook does. Freedom of speech has been taken away from us. They flagged me yesterday for "bullying" and I was not bullying. I was saying negative things about thugs that are rioting in France and apparently they got upset because I was being not so nice talking about criminals. This is the dumb world that we live in now. This is why I say that it was alot better way back then, than it is now. Too many crybabies that get their little wittle feelings hurt today.
50 years later and it's STILL the most terrifying movie, ever. I noticed by the end of the movie you three were all holding onto each other. It shows the human nature of the need to connect, and that it is STILL scary and BETTER than 99% of the films out there. The 1970's - 1990's made the BEST movies.
Great comment
My Catholic mother watched this in her college years whole visiting home and my grandparents snitched and told us she came crawling into their room that night and had to sleep between them.
Hahhaha I've been there. THE GRUDGE movie made sleep with mu parents for a 5 month i was 13 that time
Many people were so spooked the first time they saw it that some theaters brought in actual Catholic Priests to offer counseling and other religious comforts to people in the audience.
A girl I went to junior high school with who was Mormon saw it and was haunted for three months. She came to school shaking and crying with fear and had to have counseling very secretly during the day. I'm not sure if maybe something very real and paranormal was actually bothering her irl.
A man I spoke to said that when he first saw the movie and he went home, his infant daughter was breathing, similar to the way Regan was breathing while possessed. It freaked him out so much that he had his baby baptized the next day.
@@ireneemerson5828 imagination overload is common amongst the indoctrinated.
This was the first horror film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture
I’m confused, if this reaction video was from only 45 minutes ago then why are their comments on it from 3 weeks ago and even a month ago? 🤔🤨
it did win for Best Sound, i think
Should have won
@@nsasupporter7557 because it was shown on their Patreon site first then to UA-cam
@@soldiermedic45 oh ok 👌 thank you
Did you know that author William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist was inspired by the actual 1949 exorcism of a young boy from Cottage City, Maryland, and the horrifying 1634 Loudun exorcisms? The story goes that Blatty heard about the Maryland case while he was a student at Georgetown University.
Yes they did know it was based on a true story, though likely not the specific details you've outlined. They mentioned at the beginning and again at the end of their commentary that they were aware that the story was said to be based on true events.
@@richardherdman2121 true even ghost adventures did 100 episode in season 10 whole episode on it on that event, they even visited the same house when that happend in 1949.
although they didn't catch hard prove but they deffently could feel air in the house of darkness.
Although what you fail to mention------Blatty's novel turned into a major motion picture was greatly exaggerated-------nothing like in the movie ever happened in real life...!
@@williamlacentra2808 i didn't say that, movie and the novel is based on that event.
Yup! Which is why I didn't understand in the beginning them saying that it's a true story. It's sort of a true story but with completely different scenarios.
As frightening as the visuals were, the musical score, "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield, added a magnitude of creepiness that made the whole film a sinister work of art.
just like that theme from hans zimmer with jaws.
i liked the scene in the film when you first heard 'Tubular Bells" - i believe the mother is walking through a nice part of Georgetown, leaves are falling, trick-or-treaters run by her, all very charming compared with what's to come.
@@haintedhouse2990 same for me, its means shit hits the fan for that family.
@@DMC2983NL lol to say the least.
I heard some people won,t walk up,down those steps because of the movie.
The Exorcist is still the most shocking horror film ever made. They defined how horrible and disgusting demon possession on film could be. What Regan does or the demon does with Regans body is truly horrifying.
The fact is is that the 1970's were considered the second "Golden Age" of Hollywood. Many absolutely fantastic films came out in the 70's. Films with intelligent scripts and great acting. Hollywood today doesn't put out anywhere near the quality of films it did in the 70's.
Plus, the greatest rock music was made in the 70's.
I absolutely agree. There are far too many incredible movies to name from the 70's. I was fortunate enough to have grown up in that time era. Rocky was one of my favorites. The 70's certainly hit a new era in film making and the acting was top notch on some of the most brilliant scripts in a generation.
Agreed! It seems the only thing Hollywood can do is regurgitate Marvel Heroes.
The 70s was an incredible time for cinema. (I was born later but the 70s was always my favourite era for film).
There were some amazing blockbusters but also a lot of very incredible pieces of art that pushed the envelope.
Coppola, Scorsese, DePalma, Cassavettes, Friedkin, Carpenter (heck, even Lucas) - the list of visionary, gutsy filmmakers from that particular decade just goes on and on . . .
@@stargazer1238 i agree with you there, "70 and "80 where golden age off movies.
like Lethal Weapon that came out in "87 and Die Hard from "88 that changed action movies from there on with Die Hard as the blueprint for it considered by most people.
sadly this genre of movie has been overdone the last 20 years so this movies impact cant be fully felt by newer generations. but even then, this movie still the has the most realistic depiction of demonic possession and thats why it still holds up. it doesn't rely on cheap jump scares and cliche story/dialogue. its truly a masterpiece of film making.
a true possession, maybe 1 out of 5000 are real, the demon does not wish to be outted. why would they?
Ellie survived a movie that made people sick when it originally was released at the movies. Ellie is no longer scared of movies like this because she is much tougher today. She is now ready for Sinister. A movie based on pure fiction. Blue had the best reaction when she saw her walking down the stairs. Blue screamed so loud it made you worry for her.
Blue's reaction to the "spider walk" scene should be a Tik-Tok short in itself.
What are we talking about here, that scene was not in this reaction?
@@Muckylittleme No it wasn't in THIS reaction. Which was the only disappointment for me in an otherwise great reaction. But TrixyBlue did react to it on her channel. Blue was part of the Homies about a year or so ago. & I think her channel's still associated with the Homies. I'd have loved to have seen their reaction to this particular scene.
@@Muckylittleme They probably watched the wrong, originally released, version. Not the later released version, with it included. Or they edited it out and it’s on Patreon, perhaps?
@@salvadorjimenez2872 Thanks for the explanation.
one of the scariest movies! ever... Ellie got the outfit for it
omg. 😂
Her outfit is similar to Wednesday Addams,and damian,s nanny from" the omen."
I don’t think it’s scary at all
This movie was only scary to audiences in 1973. Since then, we've all been so desensitized to violence, death, and religion, that the only scary movies left are the ones about FOMO.
@@bobdroll6381 Thats not true at all. This movie has been scaring people for decades and is widely regarded as one of the scariest movies of all time.
The Homies:
The Blueberry Void: When I was 20 in 1973, I saw The Exorcist in a darkened, sold-out movie theater with great sound and projection. I had to leave a light on to sleep that night.
You say, "I want to see what's up with people running out of theaters?" You won't - not why some ran out when the demon's voice first came out of Regan when she slapped the doctor, for example, as well as in other parts of the movie. No one had ever seen a demon's voice convincingly and shockingly coming out of a little girl's mouth before that and what was to follow.
At your age you probably can't understand how different American culture and theater audiences were in 1973, how much more impact the movie had because it was the first serious high-quality horror and demonic-possession movie ever made, how shocking the graphic language and realistic violence were for 1973 audiences - AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - when thinking about what to say in a reaction video instead of watching in silence - it is damn near impossible to grasp how believable the movie is because of how it slowly drags you into the story with believable, likable, true to real life characters long before presenting the parts of the movie that are hard to truly believe - all of which made the horrific story MORE BELIEVABLE and seem more real.
Instead, you'll probably be conditioned by today's horror junk movies to expect the special effects to superficially scare you rather than the story that most of us would not have thought possible in 1973 but the movie made it seem possible, and knowing it was based on a true story, just the possibility the movie made us seriously consider that demonic possession really was possible and how horrifying it could be made it, BY MILES!, the most frightening movie experience ANY of us had up until 1973 AND AFTER (the proof is in the pudding - the audience reactions in 1973). You might grasp that it was and is a scary movie, but no way will you "see what's up" with why it was" BY FAR, the scariest movie EVENT any movie audience ever saw or ever will see.
Well articulated! Totally agree!
Karl is their butler. The medical procedure with her neck is called a Carotid Angiography. Usually the catheter is placed somewhere in the groin area or arm but can be placed in the neck. a small amount of blood is released so an iodine based dye can be injected in to arteries so the show up on x-ray to see if there is any blockage in arteries between the heart and brain. It's an invasive procedure. There is a less invasive procedure using ultrasound but it can miss things. It is still a medical procedure used today. This was considered the most unsettling scene in the movie.
true now a days its used by c.a.t or mri scan, that are way better now is then in 1973, i know got that procedure to check up my right under leg that i broke at 3 places.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Sound Editing
It made $470 million dollars ($1.3 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget.
It's said to be cursed as some of the cast and crew got into unexplained accidents before and during filming.
At 1:35 you'll notice as Merrin pulls the figure out of the hole there's a gust of wind. That's the evil spirit being released.
if you didn't know, the name of the demon is Pazuzu, the king of the demons wind in Mesopotamia/Sumerian/Babylon. He could be bad but most of the time good!! use/call as a protector against diseases specially for pregnant women and against most others demons.
not a lot of peoples catch the wind meaning that you call, nice one .....specially if you didn't know about him!!!
My G_d is stronger, he is the everlasting sky, yer g_d lives underneath him. lol. awesome movie. u should read my highlighted post at the top.
@@jean-rochdion4898 Pazuzu was like a mob boss you pay for protection. Pazuzu was evil but an evil you could bribe to keep his minions from paying you a visit and his rival went after pregnant women and newborns. He didn't care for children just wanted to keep them away from his rival. Also Merrin had battled Pazuzu in the past in Africa.
Pazuzu brought locusts and famine
At its core, it is a beautiful film - Karras regains his faith.
It is the most deeply Christian film, to come out of Hollywood, I have ever seen in my life.
The most disturbing part for me was the hospital scene. The blood and metal wire going into her neck gave me goosebumps.
It's essentially a metaphor for the demon, who's violently invading Reagan's body also, just like the medical equipment. It's a great way to make us feel what the demon is doing inside her.
I find it bizarre that so many people react most strongly to that
Fun fact: the male assistant with the beard during that scene ended up serving 20+ years in prison for murder and was suspected of being a serial killer.
@@bsjett also that actor that scolded the butler for you know what, actually died few days after stair scene, even the set cought fire few times.
and the mother with crucafix scene actually hurt her back with life long injury after backhanded slap to her face.
also in the bar scene where damien confess he lost his believe in god was actually talking to a real priest that was working as consultant from church for the movie.
actors and crew during filming this movie believed it was cursed, with serveral people died and all of those accidents on set.
@@DMC2983NL injury to the tailbone not back
Wow! What a reaction! A few times there, I thought Ellie was going to throw-up! A couple of those scenes _were_ *truly* disgusting!
I read about Blatty's writing of 'The Exorcist'; he spent a *lot* of time researching cases of possession/exorcism, in the 1800s and 1900s mostly, along with some earlier ones. He wrote 'The Exorcist' using things that had happened in those cases, that had witnesses! The book became a very big best-seller; then Hollywood bought the story. When it came out in the theaters, it developed a real reputation as something that some people had real problems with. People walked out of shows, much more often than had happened with any other movies. But it still became a *huge* hit!
I don't think you watched the Extended/Director's Cut, which has a *really* freaky scene in it (it wasn't in the theatrical release), that has Regan doing a mind-boggling move, coming down the stairs, looking like some sort of insect/spider! Go search on YT for "The Exorcist (1973) Spider Crawl" - *very* freaky!
This is nothing. You should watch their Insidious reaction. It was on another level. Ellie almost went insane.
oh YOU should check ELLE watchin Sixth Sense, for not having overly bloody or disgusting scenes she was scared sh it by the dead ghosts. She needed to call Larry (guy who edits these uploads) and he was a bit sick and came and sat with her lol
I wasn’t born when this movie came out, but my parents said the hype was unreal. No one had ever made such a scary movie before. According to my mum, there were nuns outside of movie theatres telling people not to watch
it was unreal. the energy in the audience was pretty scary itself, people screaming, hiding their faces, some headed for the exits. in 1973 the film was considered heavy stuff and yes the church was up in arms about it.
@@haintedhouse2990 true i have seen news footage of it, on youtube and i was exactly born 10 year later.
@@DMC2983NL my girlfriend and i went to see it on a dare and she couldn't sleep for many nights. i wasn't much better.
audiences then had never before seen images quite like some of those in the film.
@@haintedhouse2990 i believe that, such films is not for every1 that i know for sure.
First time i saw it when is was 12 years old with food for whole movie and watched it in middle of night lights out, and when movie was finnished whent to bed and slept 16 h straight with no issue.
That's true. Their was also people leaving the theater because they were so shaken by it.
I was only 10 years old when this movie came out. There was an older girl in the neighborhood that would often get to go see rated R movies. She would then entertain the rest of the kids in the neighborhood with a blow-by-blow of the entire plot of whatever movie she had recently seen. She was 12, a bit of a Tomboy and was often the source of legends and tall tales told in our neighborhood growing up. If there was an urban legend to be told, she was the one telling it.
So there we are, all straddling our bicycles in a circle in the middle of the road while "Lucy" thrills us with every gruesome and sacrilegious scene in The Exorcist, all delivered with the goriest details and all the F bombs included. The imagery my mind created at her detailed descriptions of key scenes was seared into my mind.
I did finally get to see the highly edited version on TV sometime later and eventually the full version about 10 years later on HBO but I will always remember Lucy's vicarious retelling of the movie as my favorite version.
The other stand out movie that I remember her telling us about was Tommy by The Who. I still have never seen that one. But in a away, I kinda have .
I loved your reaction to this film. Believe it or not, the medical tests and equipment seen in the film were cutting-edge for 1973. They wanted everyone to see that every possible medical procedure was being tested prior to the exorcism. The bedroom set was refrigerated so the priest's breath could be seen because they didn't have computer graphics at the time. That also means that Linda Blair (the girl) was freezing during most of the filming. The room was also up on these things that allowed the entire room to shake like an earthquake. The footage of the priests falling down was shot when the room was shaken.
I think the thing a lot of us are interested in is your own personal opinions on this and the topic of the paranormal. It's one thing to hear other people's accounts, what are your own? Have you ever dared go to a place you've heard was haunted? Have you had any encounters of your own? I'm curious because your culture might be significantly different from other people who've seen this. I'd love to hear you tell us about your own experiences. If you haven't had any, have you tried going to places where you could have a paranormal experience?
It's sad you are never going to get a reply to this.
@@ПлатонУченик Yes, it truly is. Thank YOU for at least taking the time out of your busy day to say something.
it's said "thou shall not tempt the Lord" .. they can only torment you with permission (Book of Job)
Linda Blair suffered back injuries due to the back spring board in the bed when violently bouncing up and down as well.
Fun facts:
-The green vomit Megan spews, was pea soup.
-Linda Blair recieved death threat letters after the film's release.
-Linda Blair dated Rick James, and even Rick James's song 'Cold Blooded' was written for her.
-Linda Blair starred in soft porn films when she was older and did nudes. Such films were 'Savage Streets' and 'Fatal Bond'.
@@davidreneau8212 afraid of your own indoctrinated imagination much !
This is my faulty memory on the topic so take the fallowing with a grain of salt. There is a lot of back and forth on what was real and was cover up on the original story, so it's kind of hard to keep the original bits right. But...
The Exorcist, the original book is VERY loosely based on a real story, the child was a boy, he was from a working class family not a well to do one, and he resisted tons of "modern" help before the church was finally contacted and brought in, they conducted multiple exorcism rights day after day on the boy, brining him to the church in town for each one, until he reached a point that he was too weak to be moved, I forget where the last Exorcism was held, but it wasn't a church, and it's then they gave the final right they needed to go through and the boy was free of the demons. He lived I believe until at least his late 60's and still has living family members. However the boy's cousin I believe started acting strangely, and it was uncovered too late that the demons had taken him, and if I recall he committed murders before he was stopped. Or so the story at the time went, there are conflicting versions of what happened outside of the boy, the demon possession, and eventually being free of it. The boy's name also changes due to the fact that they originally tried to keep their original names hidden from public to prevent unwanted attention.
I think he knew at the end that he would not be able to complete the exorcism by his self. The only way he could save the girl was to get the demon to come into himself and once the demon transferred to him he knew that sacrifice would be the only way for him to succeed. I think what happened in that room came very close to breaking him permanently but talking to her mother, in that moment he regained his faith. He may have faltered but in the end he pulled it together for one last battle for the soul of that little girl.
People of the modern age would say those people of the 16th century and before
were stupid , superstitious , ignorant people believing in demons ,possesions, exorcisms when today , we know better.
Today we have science , psychiatry , medicines , able to treat these things and so we know better today .No so ,not really .
Even with all our modern science , tech, many would say demons , possesed people still exist but in more subtle , devious ways.
Many would say those controlling this world , super rich , inhuman , elites ,
are like posessed individuals , they do whatever Satan tells them to do and are rewarded by him accordingly with super riches and wealth .
It's worth considering this , I think.
Don’t forget suicides are believed to go to hell, so this was much more of a sacrifice for him not knowing what would happen to his immortal soul.
True,, but if you look back on the dialogue the demon was saying beforehand that it was wanting and welcoming the priest to dwell with them. It was all orchestrated by the demon to kill the old exorcist and to take the soul of the younger priest.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Karras came to his faith again when he remembered the righteousness of selfless sacrifice, the same way that Jesus was sacrificed to purge the sins of the world.
Karras was the true exorcist.
@@aclem8246 the demon wanted to posses Merrin and was enraged at his death in the novel
Based on a real story- it was a boy not a girl that’s depicted in the movie. It was not in Georgetown but occurred in St Louis, MO USA.
His real name was never revealed and lives a normal life somewhere in Maryland, USA.
That house and the steps the priest fell to his death is near Georgetown University in Washington DC on Prospect St. My sister had to watch this during her orientation at Georgetown University; she was grateful there was a priest sitting behind her as she watched the horrifying movie. I’ve been to those steps.
Michelle, you asked about paranormal. The third time I watched this movie, now in my 40's and after the hits from life, I felt as if someone was in my room and ESPECIALLY my bed right next to me when I went to sleep that night. It did get to me as I could relate to the story a bit more. So the stories of people sleeping with the lights on were true.
As for more non personal paranormal experiences, you can look up what happened on the set. There was more of that.
Ghoulish Fact: The man with the beard at 14:14....real life SERIAL KILLER Paul Bateson.
I read the William Peter Blatty Book after watching the movie. In the book, the story is more centered on Father Damien, while in the film it is clear that it was necessary to focus on the character Regan because it was necessary to explore terror.
The Girl was insignificant. The Demon was after Father Merrin (for Exorcising it once before) and Father Karras, A Priest that was losing Faith.
Father Merrin recognised the Little Stone head in the Rubble, and the Silver Medallion was His, from when he Banished the Demon before. The Demon placed it there to let him know it was back and Coming for him.
So, in the End, the Demon "Won".
Hi Ladies, it’s Clint from England, actor and movie lover. You have asked some real creepy experiences. This happened so it’s scary just going through it again. When I was 16 and home alone for the weekend it’s Friday night. Watching a “movie” and this shadow on the wall kept walking fm one end to the other and just repeats it self. For a few minutes inside and out trying to work out where this figure was coming fm. Now I’m getting freaked out. The shadow kept repeating walk from one side to the other. My heart was racing not wanting the shadow to suddenly jump off the wall at me, for real I’m convinced it’s a ghost at this point so anything could happen. I’m alone no one to laugh it off with just pure fear, plus it’s the mid 90s no mobile phones. I didn’t know what else to do but leave everything on and go up in my room. Left all lights tv, I was f-#ing scared. When I wake in the morning, everything is off. With the bright of day I still was scared, went downstairs the front door was open and everything was off. I know I left everything on. The shadow was gone and never returned. He most of been a lost ghost and let himself out the door eventually. Turned everything off before he left out of politeness. 😂 I might laugh about it now but it was terrifying at the time and still gives me the creeps when I talk about that one. 😎 you ask for it so I had too share. Love your reactions Ladies big 🤍 from England.. Clint
So many elements add up to make this movie as disturbing as it is. For me, the sound design is really key. It adds to the amazing visuals to make the viewer feel overcome with the story. Great reaction! Happy Hallowe'en all!
The reaction it gave to my mother is that she was so traumatized that she had to sleep with the lights on for a while.
11:05 The movie didn’t explain it…but in the book, when Regan told that man at the party that he was going to die up there…that man was an astronaut, who had an upcoming space mission.
They say this caused a lot of people to panic and pass out from when this came to theaters. Now you’ve to see part 3 of this. You’ll find it very interesting and unusual
The very under appreciated 'Exorcist 3' is a disturbing, psychological, horror, classic. Watch it in a dark room on your own, I dare you.
@@fkingshame7537 hey I’ve a better idea. In a VR theater.
@@fkingshame7537 The Hospital scene when the nurse is checking the room is worth the price of admission alone. It takes everyone by surprise when they see it for the first time. It's always mentioned when they rank the scariest scenes in movie history.
true people trew up even fainted during the movie even after walking out during the movie they trew up and fainted in the lobby.
A good friend and myself rode our bikes up the street one block to watch this at another friend’s house late one night back when this came out. I know, I’m old lol. Anyway, when it was over, we were going to ride back to my house. At the intersection under the street light, a cat was lying in the middle of the street looking at us. The reflection of his eyes was creepy as hell. My friend rode his bike about six blocks out of the way to avoid the cat. 😂 That movie scared him good.
I shared a room with my little sister and when I came in after the movie, she sat up and talked in her sleep looking straight at me! I slept on the couch!!! 😵
You can learn more about the history between father Merrin and the demon if you watch "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist", it's pretty good. I think the archaeological dig at the beginning of the movie is the very spot where there use to be a satanic temple which is in the movie I mentioned before, Lankester Merrin was doing some kind of service there, as a priest, it was his first battle with this demon, but not the last, he became familiar with it.Thanks for this great movie reaction!
that movie came out in 2005, and played in time period of 1947 in turkana, Brittish Kenya.
I'm 55 years old and have had experiences of seeing, feeling the presence, hearing and being touched by spirits since I was 4 years old. The spirit world is real. Life after death is real. I worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for 12 years, and that work not only took me to some seriously haunted old hospitals and nursing homes all over NJ and NY. It also unfortunately surrounded me with death on a daily basis, with is rough to say the least on a Sensitive which I am.
When I saw that you girls were going to watch "The Exorcist", I laughed.
I thought to myself .....
"I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when they see that one part." :D
The cross scene would scare anyone. But it affects women differently.
Well, it was fun watching you girls jump and hold hands throughout the movie!
Never ever mess with a spirit board
We came to America and this is our first horror film back in 1980s, my siblings watched it and it scared the shit out of them. I didn’t watched it I was a toddler/or still a baby back then.
Another exorcism movie based on a true story is "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" her grave is in Germany but her name was changed for the movie. And yes girls possessions still happen today. I am a Deacon in a church and have seen 3 or 4 people possessed over the last 10 years. This movie you have just watched has been over dramatised for the movie so its not actually like this. Although it can be worse but in different ways. Have a nice day ladies. :)
The writer, William Peter Blatty was inspired to write the novel The Exorcist after reading an article about a 14 year old boy who was suspected of being possessed.
Excellent reaction, I was waiting for it for a long time girls, I remember hearing that at the time this movie was released in theaters it was very famous because people left the theaters before finishing watching it, there were cases of people vomiting and fainting too , I remember that this movie traumatized me as a teenager hahaha 🤣... Another movie about exorcisms that I like to see is "The exorcism of Emily Rose"😱, which is based on real events😰, I like how the debate between science and religion and since in the end everyone believes what they choose to believe, I highly recommend them. Also another highly recommended one that traumatized me again as a teenager is "The Blair Witch Project"😨, I would love that one day they can react to those two movies since I don't find many reactions from those two😊.
They should watch"exorcist,the beginning ".the priest younger.
The movie is based on a 1949 exorcism of a young boy in Maryland.
I thought it was based on a boy in an African village
Yeah ,scary if you still believe in indoctrinated fairytales... hahahaha 😁
I thought it was base on my mother n law..she still has that demon voice...jaja
When I was young my family was poor and we had to live in a house occupied by at least one spirit. Nobody was harmed or possessed. Objects would move, locks locked and unlocked, record needle arm would lift up and move around, a guitar would strum itself, jumping on the bed noises upstairs, a black car drove up and disappeared, drove my uncle on his bike off the road one time, an empty chair scooted up to the dinner table. It would quiet down for a couple of days when my mom would put on a Christian album on the record player.
I still think The Exorcist is the gold standard of horror films. Not only were the horror aspects bone chilling but everything about the movie was amazing from the acting, character development, family issues, religious conflicts, cinematography, and music. The Exorcist is as deeply affecting today as it was over 50 years ago. But The Homie's viewpoint is totally understandable given today's generation who prefer jumpscares, gimmicks, and CGI to quell the attention deficit disorder. LOL!
They say “The Exorcist” is the top world’s record of horror movies in the 70s
Around 1990 in college my friend T.M. rented a big house with a few other girls and she said it was haunted and she saw a full body apparition of a guy dressed in early 1900's clothes. When she turned to look at him he stopped walking and turned to look back at her and they stared at each other then he turned and walked into a closet door. She didn't believe in ghosts before that. She said her and her roommates played Oiuja a few times and it moved like crazy around the board. She always told me to bring a few friends over and try the Oiuja in the house. Well we did one night. The planchet was flying around the board answering Q's in a bad way and bringing up past events in our lives. We went into a room where a guy hung himself around 1930 and the the Oiuja got crazier. Then the room got ice cold when it wasn't cold anywhere else or outside then the furniture started shaking, then jumping off the floor. It scared the sh*t out of us and rarely a day goes by where I don't think about it. I didn't know about the dangers of Oiuja boards then but I do now. You couldn't pay me to play with one again. My friend B.H. couldn't even talk about it when I brought it up until 2 years ago. He's still pretty freaked out also.
if you seek..they will find
I saw this movie in the theater with friends when I was about 13. One of my friends was eating all kinds of snacks during the movie and my friend sitting next to him did feel sick and had to leave to get sick in the bathroom. He did return to see the end. It was quite the experience seeing it in theaters.
There were drive-ins at that time wasn’t there?
12:10 The movie was a film-adaptation of a 1971 novel of the same name written by William Peter Blatty, who based it on an alleged exorcism of an anonymous 14-year old boy from Cottage City, Maryland in 1949. The boy was known by the pseudonym 'Ronald Doe' and what was written in newspapers at the time was given by Luther Miles Schulze, former pastor of the boy's family.
43:51 A couple of detectives claimed to have seen a man in a red suit, clown make-up and green hair dancing down those stairs. He seemed in his own world, like possessed, and he looked jubilant as if he's gained somekind of power. For some reason they tried to arrest him but they ended up in critical conditions and the man escaped. Being at the hospital one of them whispered some words: "Fleck...Arthur Fleck"
Name checks out
I thought those were the same stairs, too, when I saw a trailer for Joker, but they’re not. Those stairs are in New York City. But the stairs in this movie are in Georgetown in Washington DC.
This is a great movie and I'm glad you ladies had the chance to experience it. So here's a paranormal story: My parents were very young in the '70's - sorta like black hippies, if you will. When I was a baby, my dad was giving me a bath while my mom was in the attic, drawing a pentagram on the floor (just to be screwing around). She swears a red smoke appeared from the middle of the pentagram, and she ran out of the attic to us in the bathroom. I truly think the house I grew up in was haunted. I have other stories but that's all for now.
Probably the most terrifying movie of all times!!! I myself was terrified of it and still get scared of it many times great movie to react too
i even watch this in the dark at home, and still sleep heavy after watching it.
I saw The Exorcist in ‘73 when it was released. Several people walked out, especially after the masturbating and head turning scenes. The movie didn’t affect me in anyway, to date it remains one of my all time favorite movies.
I‘m happy that there are so many new reactions to this film right now. The first time I watched it when I was quite young and when it was over I rewound the cassette and directly watched it a second time. I think it is really a masterpiece.
It took me years to get through this entire movie. Even now I can't watch all of these reviews.
When we left the theater... in '73... there were people crying, scared, and all of us, stunned, by what we'd just seen. It was THAT good and That scary. One of the best horror films, Ever !!
Based on a true story; Blatty, Friedkin and Hollywood made this movie with genius and Hollywood magic! There will never be another movie like this again!
I have a recommendation for you ladies: "Skeleton Key". It's really good, and very appropriate for the Halloween season.
I personally went through demonic attack and attempt at possession, the attacks disturbingly lasting for decades and involving more than two dozen other people - most of whom had no idea what was causing the things happening to or near them until they told me and I explained it was part of being near me during it (or didn’t explain to them and just acted like “oh wow, that’s weird”…. I didn’t and still don’t *usually* talk to people irl about it due to doubts and arguments that come).
Horrible sounds, things moving on their own, objects not owned showing up, electronics working themselves, and worse…. To me, to people who knew and were involved, and to people who didn’t know but were nearby physically or close to me as a person.
For example, in the military barracks I was stationed in the soldiers in each room next to me had unexplained events scaring the hell out of them…. Bizarre sounds recorded on their answering machines, coming back to their rooms with all the furniture slewed about, nightmares they’d not had before. On the other side of my room a later soldier had the issue of having items of theirs smash against our shared wall on their own.
Couple years down the line when it was quite intense but I was holding up against it I was sitting in my kitchen as my husband washed dishes and we were chatting. I had a sudden horrible mental flash of him stabbing me repeatedly with one of the kitchen knives, acted normal and just kept doing our thing…. when he got done washing dishes he went to go to the bathroom and as he was leaving the room he wobbled like he was dizzy and fell against the wall before he caught himself. I was worried about him and asked if he was okay and he looked at me pale faced and told me he’d just had flashes/urges to stab me with a kitchen knife.
Lots of horrible stuff to me directly that I don’t want to talk about as it still upsets and scares me and makes me I’ll feeling.
OMG I would have loved to see Lia’s reaction 🤣
Ladies
Remembered this movie was released about 50 years ago. During filming this movie, producers hired an adult actress to step in as Regan (Linda Blair) for most disturbing scenes of the movie. Her name is Eileen Dietz. Eileen is about 15 years older to Linda, who was about 13 or 14 at the time. Amazing part is that it still holds up today by your reactions. We have to give thanks to late legendary special makeup artist, Dick Smith and his crew. He and his crew made Eileen (most disturbing) and Linda (possessed Regan) and Max von Sydow (Father Merrin) as older man in his 70's to 80's as Max was about 45ish at the time. He and his crew created rotating head of possessed Regan. This movie became 1st horror movie nominated for Best Picture during Academy Awards. In 2010, Library of Congress selected this film to be preserved in its National Registry.
Ladies
Classic and mysterious board is Ouija Board. I had one of them back in the day.
It's been more than 50 years since it came out, but there is still no original high-quality horror movie that goes beyond the exorcist.
O. M. Double. G You’ve watched a movie that my beautiful parents took me to go see at the age of 5. My childhood ended after that movie a bit traumatized. Love my homies
In regards to the question as to why Karas needed church approval, exorcism is a rite so naturally you need to get permission, and also it would allow him to summon all the authority and power of the church. And no there have been a lot more possessions in recent times than simply the one that this movie was based upon.
Wait did you guys skip or watch the one without the spider walk down the stairs 😭 thats the best reaction scene lol
That's why the director's cut is best version. People say the theatrical cut is the best but that's just cinemaphilie snobbery.
I saw the exorcist in 1974 in the cinema in my city, I was only 10 years old, I was terrified but I LOVED it, I liked horror movies, well, I liked the cinema of the 70's A LOT. (I grew up with the exorcist, shark, Carrie, the shining, all very good creations, UNTIL TODAY)
a true masterpiece of terror, unique and unrepeatable.
Hi Homies. Hope you don't have many nightmares after watching this. 🤣
"The Exorcism of Emily Rose" is a really good movie as well. Based on true events, and the possession/exorcism portrayal is more realistic for an (alleged) possession. Although really good, parts of "The Exorcist" are a bit over the top.
Also watched your reaction to "Train to Busan". Glad you're willing to do non-english movies. Would like to recommend the French movie "Brotherhood of the Wolf". The english dubbed version isn't too bad, but really needs to be watched in French w/subtitles. And the Russian movie "T-34" is pretty good too. Has a bit of a different storyline for a WWII movie. This one definitely needs to be watched in Russian w/subtitles, as the english dubbed version isn't very good.
Anyway, looking forward to what's next. 😀 Happy Halloween. 👻
The movie and book were based on a real event that happened in St. Louis in 1949. The exorcism was performed by Jesuit priests associated with St. Louis University. The diaries the priests kept of the exorcism are in the library at St. Louis University. You can access them online. Fr. Walter Halloran was the real life younger priest who assisted in the exorcism. A friend of mine was attending SLUH in 1972 and a priest pointed out Fr. Halloran to him and said, "that's the guy who had his nose broken by a kid possessed by the devil." My friend didn't understand what he was talking about until the movie came out a year later. Most Catholics had never heard of the Rite of Exorcism until the movie. Fr. Halloran did have his nose broken during the exorcism. He also served two tours of duty in Vietnam. He earned two bronze stars. What a badass! I heard an interview with Fr. Halloran many years ago which is somewhere on the internet. He seemed down to earth, warm and friendly. One thing I remember he said was, "that kid could spit with amazing accuracy. He hit me right in the eye every time."
Your guys reactions are the best,genuinely intense and shocked and immersed in the movie.Great job.
Ellie's facial expressions speak volumes and very powerfully.
My exp.. Im born in 1975 do the math 😆. But anyways as a kid one time i camped out at my grandma's house she has lot of land so back in the 80s i was a kid we had a hang out and all as the family had a party and all we myself and cousins and other kids were outside playing but way back out its very dark and my uncle had a 1967 impala lowrider parked out back under a carport so we kids playing out there and we go to the carport where the impala is at we see a old lady all in white sitting down it was no person you could see threw her she looked sad and there was another ghost i will say he was wareing a top hat smoking a ciggereate wareing a jacket and tie a suite..so what I did i got a rock from the dirt ground and I grew it to the old lady sitting there and the rock went threw after that we all saw that and ran back to my grandma's house we told one of my tios he went out back and said nothing was there..till this day my cousins and the others saw what we saw and this was mid 1980s...
Michelle's sadistic laugh at the first head spin. 🤣
I saw this movie at 10 years old. When the demon spoke Greek I lost my mind since i understood what it said.
this one was amazing, terrifying and amazing. glad you watched this classic! great reaction! 👍
What I like more than anything about these old movie reviews is how engaged the audience is. They just don't make movies as good as they used to. Character development, storyline, etc. you can just see how drawn in these people are from the look in their eyes.
My Bulgarian Queens ❤❤❤ where’s Lia ? can you please react to the movie Four Brothers (2005) it’s one of my favorite movies and would love to see you ladies react to. Shoutout from Atlanta GA
Underrated movie
Good luck getting an answer…they never respond to any comments
Four Brothers is wild
Trivia: Jason Miller (Father Karras) is the father of actor Jason Patric (The Lost Boys). Jason Patric’s mother is the daughter of the late Jackie Gleason.
Playing with the Ouija board is how Regan got possessed
Winter in Kentucky, 2000-2001; night: a friend and I went to the house where his brother lived throughout the summer and fall. He was evicted after failure to meet payments. My friend, Michael, and I went to salvage any of his or his brother's belongings that may have been left behind.
The security light was still active but power in the home was shut down to avoid bills and trespassers from taking advantage.
Mike and I both had flashlights but to avoid wasting battery power, we lit the candle on the coffee table. As Mike sifted through the mail, I looked up and seen a dark silhouette at the left window. For a moment, I thought someone was standing outside and was too stupid to realize their shadow from the security light was giving them away.
But, I soon realized it did not seem the "shade" of shadowing considering the power of the light. It seemed off. Soon, as my eyes focused better, it looked as if it was no 2-d on the window shade but actually a shadow standing on it's own in the room. I did not want to believe that so I moved left a little ad that was when I could tell this shadow was definitely in the room standing on it's own.
In disbelief I asked Mike "Is that a ghost?" and Mike looked up and said "No, that is your shadow." I then told him "Mike, the candle is in front of us casting our shadows behind us."
I remember watching Mike look behind us to see our shadows, as I said, then look back up to this other shadow and his mouth literally dropping open in disbelief. He soon realized it was standing in the room with us, not a shadow-silhouette cast onto any surface.
True story.
New to your channel, this film is a classic. I really enjoyed listening to your reactions. I was really freaked out by it back in the day not as much today but still a freaky story. Anyhow was fun seeing a new fresh look at it through you guys. Great channel! Cheers✌️
It's so refreshing to see reaction channels that don't assume the audience wants the reactors to talk over and comment on every scene.
A long time ago I read somewhere "Satan's power is so great and one of his best tricks has been convincing the people he doesn't exist and that God is just man's invention", so far he (Satan) has done a good job as a lot of people does not believe in demons, spirits or even God existence; and I say " do not fear those things you can see, fear those you cannot as they exist in the dark side and in the occult parts of your souls"............. they are more real and dangerous that we think.
You wanted to hear a personal supernatural story...... well here is one.
Ever since i was a kid, I have always been able to sence things around me. Some were good and some were not so good. Now as an adult, I dont mess with anything supernatual and here is why. I was invited to a friends choir show in Princeton, New Jerey. They sang in a church called Trinity Church. Now I usualy dont go into churchs beauce, almost every time I go in, I get a very strange vibe and its not the good kind. But my friend invited me and i couldn't say no. So I go, find a seat, and wait for the choir to start. I see my friend. She sees me. We wave to each other. All is good. The shows starts. They sing a couple of songs. It was great..... so far. Then they start to sing a song in a different languge. As they sang, I was wondering what they were saying. Suddenly, I see the choirs white shirsts started to glow bright and a womans voice close on my left ear, translating what they were sing. I quickly turn around to see if someone was behind me sing. But when I did, I saw two young boys that looked to be about 4 and 5 years old. "Oh" I think to myself and turn around. A few seconds later, the white shirts started to glow, and the same womans voice sing in my left ear. I quickly turn around again, but I saw the same two young boys. My breathing become quicker, and heart was beating loundly. I become uneasy. I turn to face the choir again and felt nervuse and i little scared. But I tried to shake it off beauce I was here for my friend. When, the white shirts glow bright for the third time and the same voice is in my left hear. This time, I slowly turned my head, everthough my gut was telling me not to look, but I did anyway and still saw the two young boys. Slowly turning my head back to face the choir as my body tences up and shake a little. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain on my spine and it was going up. It felt like someone was digging into my skin. Then my lower jaw started to hurt. At the same time, I felt stong pressure on my forehead pushing to it the left as my lower jaw was bing pushed to the right. In my head I siad. "Oh hell no! Stop it! I won't let you!" The pain and the struggle lasted for about a minute and it suddently stopped. The choir show has ended. I told my friend what had happened. She was stunned and had no words. We hugged good bye and I went home.
This is why I dont go into churchs.... except weddings and funerals. Other than that, no thank you.
I can also, recall an other time something supurnatural happened to me in colleg, but that is a little scarier beause I came face to face with a possession. But that story is for an other time.
And yes. Everything I told you is true.
There's movies out of about 50 good horror movies, I never thought u would have the guts to do. I would put hereditary in the top 5!! The descent, barbarian, hereditary, the exorcist, hellraiser, drag me to hell, the ring, the grudge, lights out(watch the 2 minute short first!😮)the woman in black, the Conjuring, insidious Annabelle La llarona, Nun movies... It's all part of the Conjuring universe. The first Halloween and Friday the 13th, The Omen, Hellraiser, first evil dead trilogy, and I'll throw in 1982 The Thing, for the gore factor. But the exorcist, is THE horror movie all others are judged by!!
Ironically, max was only 42 when he filmed this, he had trouble getting jobs after this because directors thought he was older! Linda did a masterpiece acting job here and should have got a lifetime Oscar. The director William Freidken kept the room at 40 degrees, fired pistols by the actors heads to scare them, and the green slime went into the young priest's mouth wasn't supposed to happen, that's why he looks so surprised! He was a cutting edge director! Max ironically not long before this, did maybe the greatest Jesus movie ever made, the greatest story ever told! He also did Conan, 3 DAYS of the Condor, minority report, and others! The moms back was permanently hurt in the scene where she's thrown down. Linda had to have round the clock security for about 8 months, because people were convinced she was possessed! She couldn't get much work after this either. The detective is a masterclass actor. Arthur Miller first saw him on stage, and said he wrote the play, death of a salesman, for him. He was in the acting masterpiece, 12 angry men!
The voice actor is a woman who smoked cigs and drank whiskey every day of her life! She purposely went uncredited for this film! Orson Welles called her the greatest voice actor of all time! This movie, The Thing, Alien and Bladerunner, prove beyond a doubt, that practical effects a are way better than special effects, robotics, and CGI! This also tells u, never get a Ouija board! Somehow without explanation, part of the evil figurine and the Catholic pendant made it to DC. Where they were originally buried in Iraq, I'm sure the pendant was used to keep the demon inside the figurine. But when the Ouija board came out, it released the demon!! Type in here, news footage and stories of people leaving the theater from, The Exorcist 😮😮😮
I think this movie has the reputation of being "the scariest movie ever made" and it leaves this idea that we will be terrified. But I think modern audiences would find this movie to be quite tame.
But it is a good drama even if you don't find it scary. The whole idea of an atheist going through modern medicine and psychology and science can't explain what's happening. So the only hope being a priest who is losing his faith and is telling you to retry all the methods you already tried.
Also this movies actually pretty faithful to the book. Only thing I can really criticize about movie v book is there seemed to be less focus on the detective and there was some dialog between the preists that I liked that wasn't in the film.
The movie resonates with people because it stirs your soul - there is good and evil
While Blatty, a comedy writer, had based the story on what had been reported back in the 1940s-50s, decades later the subject of the reports came forward and said that he created the situation in an act of teenage rebellion. He later became a scientist with NASA.
I was a kid when this picture was released to much fanfare amidst rave reviews. It is incalculable just how much this film influenced pop culture and the other films of the genre. To say the least it was a big deal nationwide and made the young girl that played Regen a huge star. Thanks Homies for this little reminder of my youth. It took me back on a little trip to the early 1970's and I could really feel the nostalgia, almost physically, upon viewing some of the more iconic scenes. As with the head twisting action and the green slime projectile vomit. Thank you guys for bringing this to us. And thanks for your priceless reactions to this great Horror Classic. You girls are a real class act. I enjoy your style a lot. All of you are funny as hell. Your wicked cool attitudes keep me returning time after time. Once again thanks for all you do. Big shoutout from your guy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. Still watchin and diggin it. Take it easy. See you on the next. Much peace and lots of love y'all. Later.
first time i watched this i was 7 in 1984 and being looked after by my cousins and they decided to tie me to a chair in a room alone and forced me to watch this and they didnt come back until the tape rewinded. today i own over 2000 horror flicks and this is still the one that moves me..
Still time to repent....
I have one weird story for you girls. My father and my grandmother's brother were playing pool (or billiard) and my father was wining, he only needed to put the 8 ball into the corner hole and that was it, he hited the ball and it seemed he was going to win when my grandma's brother shouted out loud "where are you going?!" to the ball and i swear the ball just stoped. It didn't went slower until stoping but just stoped right there were it was. It was about 20 years ago and i'm still wondering if the ball was afraid of him because i just don't get it.
This is loosely based on a case from Missouri, USA. You can look it up
This classic can be watched many times to appreciate the actual film making as opposed to the story itself. Lighting, ambiance, etc..
What they build and went through in the bedroom in the third act was unreal, massive refrigerators so you can see all the actors breath. All practical effects, no CGI way back then 😈
From Eddy Solano
yes, this is based in real facts, for example not only the levitation , the head turning , most of the scenes are based on the possession !
Movie fact: The actor who plays Father Lankester Merrin was only 44-45 years old at the time this movie was released. They had to make him appear much older than that for him to be a convincing character. Yes, the movie is based on a true story, only the possessed was a boy in Cottage City, Maryland, US.
Great to see you 3 ladies watching with clasped hands; a shame that us guys, at least in my gen, would never allow themselves to do that!
I saw the film upon its release, and the things that made Ellie's face contort so much (great visuals!) were magnified 10 fold on the silver screen, and with several hundred in the audience reacting!!!
Great reaction as always young ladies! To answer a comment, this did not happen just once. The Vatican to this day has a dedicated small team of experienced Exorcists that are always active, given the number of people in the world compared to their miniscule number. Strict criteria must be met of course, ruling out completely all aspects of earthy disease, both psychological and physical. Not hard to find info on this in our information age really. Often people that choose to not accept the presence of evil in the world, call it demonic or just evil people; rationalize it all away to avoid having too much of the real world upset the comfortable little box of beliefs they are most comfortable with. I've noticed over all my many decades on this spinning mudball there are many things that defy current scientific explaination. The crux is this: If you believe in just one of these things, it sorta opens that uncomfortable door as to what ELSE is around... .
So my paranormal experiences come from my wife's family home. It's over 100 years old in the Philadelphia suburbs. There were times when my daughters were young that their toys would turn on with no batteries in them. My oldest daughter while she was in the crib would point to the corner of the ceiling and say "scary man!". One night, my wife and I were sleeping, and I wake up to a horrific screeching sound coming from the top corner of the bedroom. It sounded like part animal, part human...never heard anything like it before or since. Immediately after the screeching stopped, my wife woke up saying she heard someone calling her name. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't witness this stuff myself. Most people think I'm either lying or crazy, but i know what I experienced.
There were some scary things that happened during the filming of this movie.
The death of nine people. Over the course of filming, nine people associated with the production of The Exorcist died. ...
The set of Regan MacNeil's home (the possessed protagonist) burned down. ...
A 'blessing' was performed on set. ...
One of the most unsettling movies and most frightening. I was a kid when this movie was released and I had nightmares that lasted a long time after seeing only a few scenes.
don't forget an actor lost his testicles while filming......lol
paranormal things have never happened to me, only once I was on the terrace looking at the stars with my aunt and I realized I saw a dot moving in space very quickly.
the dot went back and forth, left and right, it could not be driven by a motor because it moved irregularly in every direction.
my aunt confirmed the dot, even today after years, we think we saw some kind of alien spacecraft that day, I don't know, if I had been alone that day I probably would have forgotten this story
this is the strangest thing that has happened to me haha