THE EXORCIST (1973) MOVIE REACTION - *THIS WAS INSANE!!!*
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- YES MATE! Me and My sister were left Traumatized watching The Exorcist For the FIRST TIME. This Movie has honestly one of the most Disturbing scenes we've ever seen in a Movie. This for me is Hands down the Greatest HORROR MOVIE OF ALL TIME...Hope you enjoy this Reaction!!!
Directed By : William Friedkin
Stars: Ellen Burstyn . Max von Sydow . Linda Blair
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I met Linda Blair a few years ago and got an autographed photo. She was really sweet and definitely knows the effect this film and her role had on millions of people. She laughed when I told her how this film traumatized my childhood because she's heard it a million times.
😂😂 she probably just rolled her eyes and thinking “imagine playing that demon at 14”
@@justtrustash I got a kiss and a hug from Linda Blair once
@@justtrustash the guy she said ur gonna die up there to..was the astronaut.....Burke was director she killed
@@johnmarcey7176 lucky.you
I think it's the most traumatizing film ever made, well that was released in theaters! Such a brutal movie!
1973 - And still one of the hardest hitting horror movies of all time. And when the young priest was yelling, "Come into me," the demon did exactly that. That's why you saw his eyes and face start to change. The demon left the girl and went into the priest. He was fighting for control when he looked at the window and saw a flash of the dead older priest's face, which gave him the answer he needed. So, before he lost complete control to the demon, he ran and threw himself out of the window, killing himself and taking the demon with him. It was his sacrifice, to save the girl and end the demon. It was the only way.
Love it mate!!! ❤️
Yes true except the image he sees in the window is his mother. She gave him the courage to not harm Regan and he sacrificed himself by jumping out the window to save her.
There's an interesting parallel to Damien's sacrifice in the Gospels. It was pointed out to me by a youth pastor my Mom called when she discovered I was reading the novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (who also wrote the screenplay) at 13 years old in 1973 a few months before the film came out. Jesus cast demons out of a man and into a herd of pigs who stampeded off a cliff. That parallel made me even more interested. The traditional ritual didnt work but Damien (the exorcist) must have remembered the pigs. Burke was the director of Chris's film and the drunken guest who calls Karl a Nazi.
Merin died because his heart gave out, the demon didn't kill him so much as the exertion did.
Even the demon is a bit nonplussed by the event to begin with.
This scene reminded me of this part of the Bible in Matthew 8:31, 32...
The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water.
Totally creepy.
When Regan said "You're gonna die up there" she was speaking to an astronaut (not explained in the movie, but covered in the book) who was about to go on a much-publicized space mission. In the boook he was noted as being visibly shaken for the rest of the party, and in the sequel novel it's revealed he pulled out of the mission before it began.
I'm 56 years old and have seen this movie at least a hundred times and it still gives me goosebumps constantly from start to finish.
almost 40 here and atheist but still...... its nice i'm not alone :D
Yeah, I'm 52 and I first saw this film when I was 7 on T.V. What make this movie even scarier, is that it's based on true events that happened to a boy in St. Louis back in the 50's.
I also am 56. Both movie and novel are exceptional classics that can literally crawl under your skin and linger long after finishing.
56 here as well. And this film/movie rocks!
In spite of rumors to the contrary, Linda Blair, the little girl, is fine. She makes public appearances signs autographed photos and founded a nonprofit organization in 2004, the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, which works to rescue and rehabilitate abused, neglected, and mistreated animals and provide them with needed pet care.
@Stovepipe Downtube Yes she autographed photographs at Spooky World in Massachusetts one year.
Shes even parodyed herself which is a testerment to her
I've said it time & time again, after almost 50 years, people still react to this film shocked & scared. It will always be voted as the scariest horror ever made.
FACTS!!
The reason it seems so real is that apart from the demon everything is totally mundane, believable, consistent. No plot holes, no continuity errors, nothing to strain credibility. They take the time to establish the characters and make then believable. Their motivations and actions are credible. The acting is first rate too. A masterpiece of horror filming.
Exactly! And it has never been touched before or since. It also caught a moment in time that created lightning in a bottle.
You say apart from the demon yet we coexist with them on a regular basis.
@@KiddOracle🙄🙄🙄
when this movie came out...people were passing out in the isles, throwing up, church attendance rose exponentially after this movie came out. It made a huge impact on society as a whole.
I saw the extended version on the theaters. Many teenagers were there trying to play tough and laughing at the beginning of the movie. Believe me, by the end of the movie, none was laughing. They thought they had seen it all and that this was just another old movie, but the scene with the cross surprised them, they hadn't seen anything like that today.
It was the seventies!
Of course they hadn't seen anything like that
@@hater2764 He means teenagers in the 90s. That's when the extended cut was released.
It’s very interesting how the most horrific and disturbing movies of all time can also be one of the most moving and inspiring. This iconic movie is a masterpiece for good reasons.
PURE FACTS!!
@@justtrustash this is one of the few instances where the movie is an improvement on the novel it was based on (which itself was based on an account of a boy who was given a particularly harrowing exorcism in the 1950s). Not that the novel isn't awesome, it's just got a lot of side plots that don't add much.
And the entity starts sounding like a stand up comic at certain points.
It's been ages but I think Pazuzu at one point complains that everyone wants flashy shit whereas he's a more old school working class demon or something equally hilarious 🤣
Glad you got to experience your first slow burn horror movie.
There are some truly good ones. The medical scenes in this movie hit you in a primal way!
Because it came from a good novel and some belive is a metaphor for the author's child abuse.
I find the mother-daughter relationship easily the most convincing part of the film.
Inspiring?
my sister was 12 yrs old when she saw this movie in the theater with friends. She ended up hospitalized for 2 days with continued panic attacks and hyperventilating on and off over 48 hrs. I was younger but remember her coming home and seeing how different she was. She had trouble sleeping for months and our parents were so upset the theater let these 12 yr olds in to see the movie which was rated R at the time meaning had to be 18 to get in. I heard many stories at the time of other people who were traumatized by the movie. i saw it on video many years later and was shooken by the same things you both were. Unbelievable for its time and still the most disturbing film i have ever seen. I loved your reaction because it truly felt authentic!
“Do you really think demons think like that?” 😂😂😂😂 Fark me, I died 😂 Your sister has great comedic timing, absolutely deadpan.
The funniest part your reaction was @16:56 when your sister said "turn this movie off right now". Her voice was shaking and she was clearly scared. And then 3 seconds later, Reagan's head spins halfway around. 😂
Came here to say the same….
Mate no joke she’s literally can’t stop talking and tell her mates about it..thank you for the love mate, appreciate it ❤️
She can't even keep her eyes on the screen. XD
I think Linda Blair is actually quite normal today, and is an animal rights activist. If you want to see a movie that did actually destroy an actor in real life though, try Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' if you haven't already seen it. Shelley Duvall was never the same again after Kubrick made her do take after take after take of the most stressful scenes (127 takes for one scene, a world record to this day), so some of the hysterical terror that you see in her face on screen was genuine.
animal rights activist and quite normal ... yeah right buddy
Yeah, she was fine - and had a lot of fun - during the making of the movie; after the movie, the world was so convinced that she was abused and messed up from making it that it dogged her for years.
Heath ledger
Blaming the shinning for Shellys state is pretty ridiculous
What 'really' happened to her?
I love seeing people experiencing this film for the first time. Unlike most horror today, this film stays with you, gives you chills and is genuinely creepy. Never watch it alone late at night then go to bed. You will convince yourself that the bed is shaking.
No movie is scarier than The Exorcist. This is a true Masterpiece.
Period.
Maybe but I still consider Aliens and Psycho to be better horror films in general
@@LukeLovesRose Can't go wrong with those two. I just found Exorcist really terrifying.
@@bluethunder7391 It still works on me. The Thing is still the most terrifying alien monster movie.
@@LukeLovesRose Another classic.
Linda Blair was a fantastic child actress, period. She had a lot of tragedies in her life, but she is s very happy and caring person from what I understand. God bless her! Probably one of the top 5 terrifying films ever made. Phenomenal!
That was till Rick James came along
Imagine being 9 years old, watching this movie in 1973 in a dark theater with a strange babysitter you didn't know and there's nobody sitting anywhere behind you. That's how I first saw this movie. At 9, you can't differentiate between fantasy and reality in movies. Especially this one, where they mix both together. I was traumatized for 2 decades. Now it's my favorite movie ever.
And not to worry, Linda Blair's script was different from everyone else's. Her script had fill-in words that, when she mouthed them, looked like she was saying bad stuff when she actually wasn't. They never told her what her character was actually saying. The cross-stabbing scene (the one where it's actually making contact) was done by a double. In reality, they told her "Just take the cross and pretend to hit your leg with it". Linda wasn't actually exposed to anything bad with the exception of maybe seeing herself with the makeup on.
Yeah this movie was only allowed to ages to 16 and above, same goes to all horror movies that requires to be atleast 16-18+ and above to watch horror movies
But in tv/video tapes/etc. Then yes, it's gonna be disturbing to kids even to adults
She did say she got hurt when they were making the bed push her up
My mother couldn't find a babysitter to leave me with during a rescreening of this movie when I was 4... she took me with her.... yeah scared the s**t out of me but also launched a lifelong love of horror movies (after she realized I was scared out of my mind and explained that it's all fake to me). So, yeah, I can completely imagine how you felt seeing it the first time so young.
Kubrick - who was famously an absolute nightmare for actors - took the same approach with the child actor in The Shining. He was also never told it was a horror movie and Kubrick was very protective of him..
Back in the 70s, I was a theater usher when this movie played at the cinema. And trust me Ash (pun intended)....when the movie was over, I had to clean up the vomit that audience members threw up over the seats! It shocked then and it continues to shock because it is a masterpiece!
LOL. oh man I worked at a cinema as well, but never had that effect. Only one horror film out at the time, ok film, and we would walk in to hear the screams at the crucial scene.
This was my favorite Exorcist reaction. "Turn this movie off right now." Well done.
With the beginning of the film, Father Merrin uncovers the head of a little figurine of the demon Pazuzu, whom he recognized because he had previously exorcised the demon years ago. So then he has a premonition later that another battle with Pazuzu is coming, with the clock randomly stopping and him almost getting ran over by the carriage. So to confirm his suspicions he goes to some old ruins where there is an old statue of Pazuzu and knows for certain when he sees the dogs fighting each other (the dogs of war have been unleashed). The dissolve to Georgetown right after is to show you where this battle between good and evil is going to take place.
Apparently….according to the director, the clock stopping wasn’t part of the script or planned? Every documentary says that too.
Damn I never knew this thanks
Definitely a 10 out of 10 horror movie. You guys were spot on. Glad to see the younger generation still has some taste when it comes to film.
Appreciate the love my brother ❤️
This movie is a masterclass in building tension, and hitting you when you’re at your breaking point. There’s no rest.
Also thankfully Linda Blair (the possessed girl.) had a double to do/say the more disturbing scenes. And anything Linda had to actually do they didn’t really tell her too much. Very similar to how Stanley Kubrick handled the kid in the shining. The boy had no real idea of what was happening. But her double is Eileen Deets. She’s also the face of The demon you see flashing throughout the film. Which is also the demon possessing the girl.
This movie has so many hints. And if I’m not mistaken the book is even more intense, and this is supposed to be based on a true story.
I suggest the shining next. I think it’ll blow your mind. It’s a beautiful film.
Yes. There are a few movies that were made based on the true story behind this film. One is 'A Haunting in Conneticut'. Similar to how the killer Ed Gein inspired several movies as well, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, Psycho etc. I will never watch the Shinning again, even on a dare! I watched a breakdown of the symbolism in the movie and I was sooo disturbed! Stanley Kubrick is 😵💫 The video breaks down scene by scene how the film underlines molestation🤢 I couldn't believe it! I'm traumatized from watching that breakdown. I wish I never saw it 😥
Best reaction I've ever seen. What very few people know is whenever you don't see Linda Blair's face, it's a 25 year old body double.
To clear up some of the medical stuff:
They actually DID numb her first, that was what the first big needle was - the second needle after she was numb (which is why they said that she'll "feel some pressure": local anesthesia blocks pain but not pressure)
The procedure itself is called an angiogram, and involves injecting a contrast dye that can be seen on x-rays into the carotid artery in the neck so that the x-ray can take an image of the blood vessels in the brain. You can identify tumors and other stuff this way because the blood vessels will look abnormal on the x-ray if they're present. You can see the vessels at 11:32 - if they hadn't injected the dye, they'd be effectively invisible on the image.
Lastly, the machine that they used that made the horrifying thumping sound was the way it was because it was the 1970s and everything medical was unwieldy and terrifying in the '70s
The machine that goes "ping".
The machine that made the horrifying thumping noise still does. It’s an MRI scanner, but these days it’s an enclosed tube you go into, and you’re given headphones….not that they make too much difference, still v. Noisy 🙂
More stuff: one of the extras in the hospital (a radiographer, I believe) turned out to be an actual serial killer. Also Father Dyer (to whom Father Karras made his last confessions at the end) was played by an actual Jesuit priest
@@ThaSchwab Yeah I remember hearing about that guy. Also the woman that voiced Pazuzu/The Demon in the more raspy scenes (Mercedes McCambridge), her son later went on to kill his wife, their two daughters and ultimately himself.
I was hoping someone explained this part. Its very accurate for the 70s.
I've watched dozens of reactions to this film, and y'all's is by FAR the best. Your complete and total submission to the film and its beauty is so refreshing to see!
Pleasure to have you on this channel with us mate, thank you for watching you legend ❤️
@@justtrustash the demon was there from the begining...they dug it up in Iraq
@@justtrustash it went from lraq to Washington. Cus fr. Merrin gug it up and Demon wants another battle
@@justtrustash Burk was the director
I have to agree my friend.
Now you know why The Exorcist is still the most haunting and terrifying film ever made. Also a the very finest film of its kind.
First, the movie--the first in its genre--is 50 years old. The movie broke the mold in every way.
The challenge for us 50 years later is that we are more sophisticated in every level from screen writing, film production, cinematography and special effects. Considering we've had 50 years of exorcist-type films and a standard developed plot that has been so refined, it is hard to be completely surprised.
When it comes to the amount of denials on the part of the medical professionals, my father, who taught and practiced psychiatry (not psychology) for 35-40 years and had seen the movie, affirmed that the response would have been typical. To admit anything spiritual otherwise would be professional suicide. In fact, the movie is exceptional in portraying psychiatrists recommending a spiritual solution at that time. He also affirmed that he had met priests who were psychiatrically trained, that had a similar responses as Fr. Zarras.
Was it perfect?
No...however 50 years later, it still is the gold standard even with its contextual flaws or shortcomings.
And in case you are wondering, yes...my father did see cases that he considered to be demonic.
Truly...
But I have said a lot already. ;)
Finally a legit reaction. Not making jokes the whole time and acting stupid. You two seemed genuinely creeped out haha
Mad love to you Ken! Appreciate the love ❤️
agreed. you guys had the BEST reaction to this classic film. saw this one couple react to it on UA-cam and the dude kept giggling which made their presentation lame as hell. you guys got the realism and intensity of the film. Bravo!
Absolutely right! No "symbolism" every other minute.
I agree!! They were so genuine.
“But there’s a demon in there!
Wha do I speak to F’in Angels!?????
IT was just a question.. I’m askin’.”
A little overreacted, don't you think?
I saw this with my husband when it was re-released. We were absolutely silent at the end, as was everyone in the movie theater. We were also afraid to walk out to the car. I, as another poster said, had nightmares for days, and even though I only saw it once, I have almost perfect recall of every scene. They're seared into my consciousness. I can't say that about any other movie. I too think that it's the most disturbing "horror" movie I've ever seen, partly because everything about it, from people's reactions to the dialogue to the settings was so realistic, but mostly because it is so graphic in showing purity absolutely corrupted by toxic evil.
Omg!! That must of been once of a lifetime experience to see that silence in the cinema and peoples reactions to this movie! I wish UA-cam was around back then..thank you for watching you legend ❤️
@@justtrustash very welcome ! Oh , and she was kinda right when she mentioned it was a true story , but it wasn’t the Annalise case she mentioned . The true story that inspires Blatty’s novel was a article called “ The haunted boy “. It details a demonic possession that occurred
To a boy in 1949. Cheers from Texas !
I guess that only works on people who believe in that kind of stuff. I saw that movie when I was about 14, and was trying to tick all the boxes of having watched famous horror movies.
I can't say that this one was particularly more shocking than any others. It's all fiction anyway. Demons, ghosts, vampires, werewolves... all folklore. Nothing real about it.
The only thing real about it is that there are irresponsible and misinformed people out there, who think this is real and exorcisms work. The most famous cases, as you sister pointed out, ended with the "possesed" persons dying, because the people doing the "exporcism" basically tortured them to death.
I.saw.this.movie.a.whole.bunch.of.times...it.never.affected.me...in.fact.there.were.some.portions.of.this.movie.that.made.me.laugh.
@@jojovaldez2766 it’s just depends on our upbringing and if we have been desensitized to certain things. Me , for example, was raised catholic and an only child. The two most hardcore movie I ever saw as a kid were “ The Birds “ and “ Lethal weapon “. The first scary movie I really watched was “ scream “ in the cinema when I was 15. I watched the “ Exorcist “ when it was re- released in theaters when I was 17.
Did you know, in order to be an FBI agent, you have to go a whole process of being desensitized to the most extreme and graphic circumstance. There is an audio recording of a girl getting tortured and murdered that the FBI uses to desensitized their agents. So , being stupid and curious , I searched for this recording online , which is not easy, but I did come across video of the murder trial and they played the audio in the courtroom. It was closed court , but the audio was so horrific, some people couldn’t handle it and would walk out opening the door, and i could hear the little snippets . It was such a horrible mistake on my part. Even those few seconds I heard, i wish I could un-hear them .
It can't be overstated how truly shocking this movie was when released. It's easy to view it with today's standards in horror films. But nothing this graphic had ever been released by a major studio with Hollywood stars. This is the single most groundbreaking horror film ever made. And I believe had The Godfather not been released the same year, The Exorcist would have won Best Picture.
I couldn't agree more.
Actually The Sting won best picture that year. The Godfather won the previous year
I thought "the Godfather" was released in 1972.
@@stinkbug4321It was. Won best picture for 1972. Sting won for 1973, beating the Exorcist, which was absurd.
17:02 Now imagine seeing this scene in a dark theater without the option of pausing it!!! It still holds up & yall’s reaction is gold 😂🎬
This movie is very haunting and disturbing. It's pacing is amazing because it slowly creeps up toward the more horrific and supernatural elements, while also adding more and more layers of unease.
i agree. i feel bad for young people who say the first part is boring. they've been shell-shocked from so much splatter the concept of a building storyline containing characters with depth is a foreign concept.
The procedure was to scan the veins and arteries in the brain. They went into a vein through her neck and inject a dye inside the veins that will show up on the scan. That way when they look at the scan, if they see any of the dye where it’s not supposed to be, they know they have located the problem!
I got so traumatized at age 10, I watched this movie with my brother (12 then). Our parents never looked after us of what we were watching on TV. Now I understand what Parental Control is about. I saw Linda Blair in dark rooms and dark corridors. I had nightmares for years. I knew deep inside that the only way was to rewatch this movie repeatedly until I could feel Meh, and that was the case. Now I'm 29 and this is one of my favorite movies. Kudos to ppl who watched this back in the'70s.
sounds familiar. i saw the film on it's release in a packed theatre in 73. people were screaming, hiding their faces, some headed for the exits. i've never seen an audience react like that since. quite the theatrical experience.
It's the only movie I saw as a kid that made me feel uneasy even during the day the next day. There is something very unsettling about this film.
@@DylansPen agreed. the film doesn't cut the viewer a break. i felt drained after seeing it.
Born in 64 and did not see a this until 78 and was scared out of my wits. Haunted me for a goo d year.
I am crying laughing! I've never watched a review from you guys before and you just snatched your wig off! 😂😂😂 I have to watch more to see if you do this every time
Even the original TRAILER for this movie was pulled by Warner Bros back then because the test audiences considered it WAY too intense. Both the trailer and movie are still creepy as anything all these years later. Arguably the best horror movie ever made. Great reaction and great channel!!
Love you mate, thank you for the support ❤️
"The best horror movies aren't the ones that scare you for just 2 hours, they're the ones that give you nightmares for weeks" - Unknown author
The Exorcist is the greatest proof of how true this phrase is. 😈🎃
Precisely.
The classics of horror build up the event first.
Suspense is the meat of ant truly good horror, jump scares are just cheap tricks to get a momentary thrill.
Yesssss!!!
WELL SAID👍
And I had nightmares for YEARS
It was years for me. I got over it in ‘04 when I bought the dvd and forced myself to watch it. Love it now. 🤘🏼❤️🔥🤘🏼
Her reaction..to the first head turn!! Priceless!! 😱😱😱 Great reaction!
When this first came out in theaters people were fainting and puking in the aisles. - That combined with having a real life murderer in the cast and dozens of unexpected accidents give this movie the reputation for being Cursed
29:09 - This was actually based on the true story of "Roland Doe"(not his real name) who was "possessed" as a young child in Maryland (close to DC) in the late 40's, or early 50's. He survived and is still alive today. Anneliese Michel was a separate story and she actually died 3 years later in 1976
Analise story was re-told in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose". That may have confused Ash's counterpart (sorry, didn't get her name)
He passed last year actually. He spent his life terrified people would find out he was the kid the exorcist was based on. Became a nasa engineer later in life, and admitted to making up the whole thing
@@MojiBeau That's why I used the quotes. People were much more easily duped by myths of Satan and Demonic possession back then
This reaction and Ashleigh Burton’s are the two best on all of UA-cam.
The best films are those which spin against their drive. This is a movie about the redemption of faith, not the loss of it. It is a film about hope, not about despair. It is a film about a man losing his faith and regaining it enough to destroy himself for a young girl he actually never meets. I am an atheist, but I recognize God all around the margins of this film. It is a masterpiece.
Well said.
Linda Blair was not emotionally messed up from this film. They were concerned she might be so she went to therapy weekly to make certain she was okay. And yes, Damian Karras killed himself to take the demon with him.
You’re the first I’ve seen make the connection that Merrin had faced the demon before and that was the reasoning for the beginning. Nicely done.
Also if interested, there’s video footage here on UA-cam from when the film was released of people’s reactions, some actually walking out of the theatre and promptly fainting. It was definitely a different time when people weren’t used to anything like this.
This was a different kind of scary compared to other horror movies. Rather than having tons of jumpscares, this one was just pure dread. Really sent shivers down my spine.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the word 'Real'. There is a realism to this film that you don't find in other horrors. It was made at a time in the early 1970's when movie censorship had been severely weakened. The Godfather (1972), Deliverance (1972) and Soldier Blue (1970) were products of the same era. I eventually saw the Exorcist on VHS video in the early 1980's and, yes, it did scare the living daylights out of me. I remember being alone one night soon after watching it, and I placed an armchair against the door to stop any demons getting in - as if it would!
Yessss!!! Speaking pure facts..we would be good mates 😂 appreciate you watching mate
@@justtrustash I think the think that really makes it really terrifying is no music or soundtrack of any kind.
I would love to see any reactor watch Deliverance, if any have I can't find it
@@stanmann356 There have been a couple of full movie reactions to it by LauraShawnLee and Maire Graves, but they only dare show an edited version of THAT scene. You know the scene I mean.
@@edcatt6003 thanks I'll try to find them. I remember growing up in the 70's before cable and seeing Deliverance many times edited on network TV. I never understood why what they showed the hillbillies doing justified what Burt Reynolds did. Then when I went to college in the 80's and saw it on cable unedited for the first time I was like OMFG now I understand!
THIS is how you make a scary movie!
Linda Blair (who plays Regan) was such a pro during the shooting of this movie and the director made sure she was always comfortable during the most heavy scenes. She was nominated for an Oscar!
The crucifix scene is still very very very shocking. It wouldn't even fly in a movie today.
Linda Blair came out of the Exorcist with a very sore back, but zero trauma. She was a very very switched on A+ student, very carefully selected for the role and the mother was included in long discussions about what the production would entail for her. A body double was used for the most notorious scenes.
I saw this film in my teens when it was first released. It's amazing to watch the two of you react to it, because your responses are EXACTLY how viewers responded to it back then. When a movie can still do that to people 50 years later, you know that it's a classic. However, you have advantages that we didn't have: you are safe at home, you talk each other through the bad scenes, and you can pause the video when things get too rough. We couldn't do any of that. Imagine how it was to watch this in a dark theater on a big screen. You were completely overwhelmed by the sights and sounds, you couldn't talk to relieve the tension, and there were no breaks to catch your breath. You can understand how people got so overwrought that they had to get up and leave the theater.
Linda Blair is very normal and runs a very successful Humane Society in her own name.
Linda did not know what she was doing in the crucifix scene. She had a pillow straped to her waste and only made a few downward motions. Her stunt double on the other hand...There's a good documentary that shows behind the scenes footage (kept in a vault for decades) of this and other horrific scenes. Very technical, almost like playing games.
Linda.Blair.was.actually.an.animal.lover
15:50 The doctors didn't say an exorcism _is the cure._ It's a psychological trick. Seeing no physical sign of illness, they feel it may be psychosomatic. So, _the patient's own belief in exorcism_ could help cure them.
(I'm guessing you probably heard that better while you were editing.)
29:30 IMO the 2005 film _The Exorcism of Emily Rose_ is quite good. It's supposed to be a closer representation¹ to what you're talking about. And quite scary IMO.² 😏
*Fantastic reaction to a phenomenal film.*
*EDIT:* Don't even go near *The Exorcist II.* However, *The Exorcist III* is a direct sequel to this, and IMO is quite good. . .though different. If you ever end up watching *The Exorcist III,* I hope you *don't watch the director's cut.* Though, I imagine some will argue otherwise, because we're all different. But I *hate* the director's cut. I think the theatrical release is a far better film.
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¹ ─ Though you're almost *always* going to have some changes.
² ─ But as you say, we shouldn't compare it to this masterpiece. 😈
@@benjammin1928 I know, I just didn't feel all of that would be relevant to *Ash.*
I've noticed we'll often address what's _not said_ in a UA-cam comment. And though it's not the case with your reply, sometimes we'll see the omission as a statement in and of itself. . .even occasionally interpreting as an outright endorsement or denial of something. But the only thing that can truly be said is that the information simply _wasn't included._
I love seeing younger people discover this movie. My mom took me to see it when I was 9. I was never the same again.
Lol guys your reactions to this old film was hilarious because this film demonstrates the lost art of story telling. They knew how to build suspense and develop a story back then. Unfortunately there aren't many movies which do this today and i don't think cancel culture is totally to blame, rather CGI has taken over with detrimental effect. Kudos for sticking it out for the whole duration. 😂😁👍
This movie was based on a case in the fifties involving a little boy, Anneliese Michel was the basis for the exorcism of Emily Rose movie
That.boy.was.a.teenager.from.Baltimore.MD.who.got.possessed.by.the.😈...which.inspired.author.William.Peter.Blatty.to.write.the.novel...I.used.to.have.the.novel.on.The.Exorcist..a.long .time.ago...William.Friedkin.then.would.make.this.movie
This is how horror movies are made….. no jump scares….. not even that much blood….. but an unsettling sinister atmosphere that will stay with you long after you have finished watching…
The best special effect in this movie you didn't even notice. Max Von Sydow's old-age makeup. He was in his 40s when this was filmed. Not only did it look completely convincing, it's actually what he ended up looking like later in life.
This is the only movie who absolutely terrified me and i have watched all kind of horror movies for over 30 years and i have never seen anything like it since.
I mean this movie is WAY different from other ones, i mean the whole atmosphere is INSANE.
Imagine watching this in the cinema in 1973 when almost no scary movie was made back then.
That would be absolutely HORRIFIC.
Even the name of the movie sounds scary.
One of the best movies i seen, not just horror
Linda Blair deserved the oscar for this performance. She is outstanding here. So mature for her age. Also Ellen Burstyn as the mom does an incredible job. Casting was on point.Btw, the scene of the Holy Water, the demon was trolling Karras.
Can you imagine someone winning an Oscar for playing a possessed person? No, bru. Never going to happen.
@@rollastoney well she was pretty close! She was nominated for it and won the Golden Globe... However bad press came out of her and what ever and she lost due to people saying "it wasn't her voice for the voice of the demon bla bla bla"
@@kazzymoviefan the.demons.voice...was.Mercedes.McCambridge...she.had.to.drink.whiskey.eat.raw.eggs..and.some.other.stuff.to.develop.the.eerie.demons..devils.voice.sounds...it.was.actually.freezing.in.that.room.where.they.perform.the.Exorcism
The acting was great considering that many well known actors turned down the film, maybe because it was so controversial. Ellen Burstyn(the mother) was a relative unknown at the time, and the actor who played Father Karras had no film acting experience. The only well known performer was Max Von Sydow(Father Merrit) and he was only in about 30 minutes of the film.
I am 42 years old. My darling sister made me watch this movie at night, when I was 7 or so. Scared the ever living life out me, I cried, my face was in my hands, and from that day till now, honest to God, I'm afraid of the dark. To this day, I cannot get through this movie and I proudly served in the Marine Corps.
I love your sister, she sounds like such a fun person 😂 something I would do..appreciate you watching mate ❤️
I was 6 when this movie came out and I already loved scary movies on tv and asked if I could see it. Of course my parents wouldn’t allow me. It was re-released when I was 11 and they let me see it. I wouldn’t sleep with the light off for about 3 years. I was terrified when I turned 12 and didn’t get over the trauma until about my late 20s.
Bwhaha your reactions are awesome. I watched this movie when I was like 10 and it scared the crap out for me for months, I thought my bed was gonna start shaking every night and dreaded turning the lights off. Also Captain Howdy/Pazuzu’s white face legit scared me away from watching the movie for several years again.
Nowadays when I’m 34, the movie is actually my fav of all time and I’ve probably watched it like a dozen times and read the book about 3 times (and the audiobook which the author does a great job with).
I absolutely agree with you on the crucifix scene, I don’t know HOW they got away with that for multiple reasons. Nothing even close to this movie existed beforehand, I still think it changed the way movies were made (especially horror movies) and nothing beyond maybe The Shining and Misery even compare to it imo. Great video!
Appreciate you my brother ❤️
They got away with by using an adult in place of Linda Blair for that scene.
I saw this when it came out, with some friends when I was 17, on a lark because we thought most horror movies were lame. Scared the shit out of us and some people left the theater. Very powerful.
The steam coming out of actor's mouths in the bedroom were real. The director insisted on chilling the room for authenticity.
Everyone says that Linda Blair the girl "Regan" was always professional, and 100% game for everything. The Director had the easiest time working with her because she was so excited to just be involved. She did get hurt while flinging herself onto the bed. The contraption they attached her to wrecked her back. The mother also got injured while filming and they kept the injury in the film. When she was thrown to the ground by her daughter that wrecked her back and they kept on filming. To this day they both still have to nurse their injuries.
It does needto be said, though, that the more sexually explicit scenes andscenes of extreme violenceperpetrated by Regan, as well as some of the more dangerous physical scenes,were filmedusing a double. A lady called Eileen Dietz.Still, Linda Blair's performance in this movie is exceptional for a chld actor. I have seen someofthe scenes without the synching of Mercedes McCambridge's voiceperformance, and they are incredible.
@@faggmj I absolutely agree with your comment! Well said and yes Eileen killed her performance she was amazing with her contributions!
40+ years later and this movie still strikes a nerve.
It truly is one of the most disturbing movies EVER.
You guys definitely should watch The Exorcist 3 (theatrical cut). It is the original continuation of this one and is shot by Blatty and based on his novel 'Legion' which is the original continuation of the first book. I loved your reaction, best regards from Mexico.
Will do mate, appreciate the love ❤️
Just please don’t watch The Exorcist II. It is abysmal.
(28:15) - “I wish I was there (in the 70s) to see their reaction.”
My grandmother went and saw this movie in theaters when it first came out. She said the line of people waiting to get in to see it was wrapped around the building, everybody wanted to see what was happening to this little girl as the headline described it as “something beyond comprehension.” There was an ambulance and a few policemen stationed outside of the theatre just in case. During the movie, she said a few people fainted and had to be carried out, some people vomited in their seats, others just left because they were too scared to keep watching, some screaming and crying. This was unheard of in the 70s, nobody seen anything like this before. She said it was terrifying, one of the scariest movies she has ever seen before.
Took my future wife on a date to see this when it came out. She was raised very Catholic. She got up and left early in the movie and I followed. It was years before I actually saw the rest of the movie. She never has and never will. Great film.
😂😂 you should make her watch it one day..maybe doing the dishes or somehow bribing her haha..thank you for watching mate ❤️
I saw The Exorcist in 1973 when I was 18. I can't recall any extreme reactions from the audience, but I was probably so engrossed in the film that someone would've had to be holding me by the throat & screaming in my ear for me to notice.
When I got home, it was late, dead quiet and the porch light was off.
As I started to unlock the door a cat leaped out of the shadow of a masonry planter about 18" from my leg. Worst fright jump I ever had. 👹
In the 70s & since before the birth of "The Talkies", Hollywood made movies that involved the audience, made them think and theorize what was going to happen and the movies were GREAT and occasionally they were E P I C.
Now, Hollyweird isn't capable of having an original thought, let alone making an original movie; they can't even pick up a classic novel and turn it into a few hundred feet of celluloid that's worth the price of the film.
You want to see a really good movie? Pull one out of a hat that was made well before the 21st century.
This is based on a true story as your sister said. Not a girl but a boy who lived in Mt. Rainer, MD in the 1950s. The story was in the Washington post after the exorcism took place. The other exorcism on a girl your sister referred to was called the exorcism of Emily Rose. That wasn't her real name. It was Annalise Michele like she said.
My friends and I talked their older sister into taking us to see this ( she was 16, we were 14… and all young Catholic school girls!. When it finished we left the theater shaking, crying, and terrified! We didn’t go home- we went straight to Church and did confessions!
I know what you mean, i watched this as a 12 year old and I was literally TERRIFIED no joking, my eyes through the whole movie was wide open and i didn't even dare to move
thats so legit of a response. Wow! What an impression
When I was a kid, even the commercials of this film gave me nightmares! The music too is iconic, it gives me the creeps just hearing it to this day
Yesss!!! Mate how quickly did you change the channel? 😂
The Exorcist is the Best!!! ❤❤❤❤ I was lucky enough to see this film on its release date in Buenos Aires 1974. My friends and I (at 17 years old) were traumatized for a while. Seeing it in a theater is chilling! Many left before finishing watching it. Wonderful film, wonderful direction, acting, sound, everything.
The fact that there’s no music is huge. Feels/sounds exactly like real life
It's not just a horror movie. It's up there with the best films ever made in every technical sense and wrestles with questions of psychology, science and spirituality. This is a masterclass on acting. Only having one ear bud in you missed much of the atmosphere of the film which won an Academy Award for sound design.
The way you explained the start, how there is nothing scary happening but you feel uneasy. Thats how you will feel with Hereditary. The film will make you extremely depressed and full of anxiety before it drops some extremely creepy shit on you. Exorcist and Hereditary are two of my favorite horror films.
I wish I could say nothing happened in this movie, but mate..there’s so many things that I’m disturbed about but you’ll see in the reaction, it’s just a pure masterpiece
I’m a retired dentist. Around ten years ago I had a patient. Her name was regan. I asked if she was named after the president Ronan’s regan, and she said “no, after some old movie.” I told her she’s named after the devil
This was the best reaction to this movie that I have seen yet, but I want to make a correction. Yes, this was based on a true story but it happened to a boy in the USA, not a girl in Europe. The girl that she was referring to is Emily Rose, a true story that happened AFTER The Exorcist was released. Emily did die but the boy in the USA (that the movie is based on) survived and is probably alive today but they have kept his identity a secret.
FYI: The boy's identity is no longer a secret. In December 2021, the Skeptical Inquirer reported his name as Ronald Hunkeler (although investigators on the Internet had identified him before that). He was a NASA engineer and helped on the Apollo missions. He died in May 2020 at the age of 85. According to his 29-year companion (who chooses to remain anonymous), Ronald himself did not believe he had really been possessed; she said he told her "I was just a bad boy." Sadly, she said he lived a terrible life because he was always worried that people would find out that he was the inspiration for The Exorcist, which did indeed happen when some investigators tracked him down several years ago. However, to their credit, they kept his identity secret while he was still alive.
Yes I was going to say that.
@@ericjette2435
Thanks! I never knew the name of the boy. I did watch a special where they showed the actual house it supposedly happened.
I am much older than you guys and went to see this at the theater with a friend and his parents when I was just 11 years old. Life and society was a LOT different back then. We went to church every Sunday. The reactions of some of the people in the theater was equally as terrifying as the movie itself. People were passing out, throwing up, screaming and running out of the theater. It just made the movie that much more intense, at least to me it did. I don't think I got a good night's sleep for a month afterwards and I wanted my door open and the lights on in my room at night. It took me almost a year to get over my anxiety about going to bed at night.
growing up in the 90's watching classics like this is why most "modern" horror films don't really phase me. The first time I watched the conjuring was the only time I felt chills in a while. Love the reaction to this. Great contrast between you and your sisters reaction.
Mate you couldn’t of said it any better..movies like this really get under your skin and makes you wonder how can they scare the shit out of people and still hold up over these years..appreciate the love mate ❤️
@@justtrustash couldn't have*
Other adult scary movies:
1) the male nurse in “The Exorcist” was a real nurse -
Paul Bateson, who was a gay serial killer. The Exorcist Director made a creepy movie about him called “CRUISING.”
2). “THE ENTITY,”’1982 was a terrifying demon movie based on a real California woman named Doris Bither.
3) THE EXORCISM of EMILY ROSE was inspired by the German girl Anneliese Michelle.
4) “LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR” based on a true story about a murderer prowling the singles bars in 1970s New York.
Btw, “The Exorcist” was based on a boy named Robbie Mannheim. He grew up to be an engineer at NASA.
As a 16 year old, I drove to the midnight showing of this movie when it was first released and watched it by myself. After the movie, I had to drive home, alone at 2:30 or 3 in the morning. It was foggy and the roads leading to my house were narrow and unlit. I cannot tell you how many times I looked in the rear view mirror and over my shoulder, checking the back seat of my car. It was the scariest 25 minute drive of my life and I remember it like it happened yesterday. To make matters worse, the theater I watched the movie at was less than 30 minutes from downtown Wash D.C./Georgetown where much of the movie was shot and based on. Great movie, but definitely a really, really bad idea to watch the midnight showing by myself. Loved your reaction to the movie.
32:59 - Karras didn't "throw himself". He got a running start and jumped our the window. He killed himself to save Regan. You see a couple seconds before he jumped, the Devil was trying to get him to strangle the girl. Karras knew if he stayed alive, Satan would completely possess him and force him to murder Regan. So his only choice was to commit suicide to save her.
It wasn't Satan. It was demons. Many demons. Legion.
@@OpenMawProductions It was one...Pazuzu
@@alistairclifton1286 the actual Pazuzu wouldn't attack children, they should have used a Semetic demon like Moloch. I get why they used Pazuzu, because of his looks lol
@@lucianaromulus1408 Agreed "Pazuzu is the demon of the southwest wind known for bringing famine during dry seasons, and locusts during rainy seasons. Pazuzu was invoked in apotropaic amulets, which combat the powers of his rival, the malicious goddess Lamashtu, who was believed to cause harm to mother and child during childbirth. Although Pazuzu is considered an evil spirit, he was called upon to ward off other malicious spirits. He would protect humans against any variety of misfortune or plague."
@@alistairclifton1286 Pagan demons are never usually 100 percent evil and vice versa with Gods. Pagans understood the duality of nature and the universe.
I grew up in the 70's. It's worth remembering that there was no gore, profanity or graphic violence on broadcast television at all, and the Hays Code censorship board had only been replaced with the ratings system a few years before this movie came out. As disturbed as modern viewers are by it, it was an order of magnitude more shocking in 1973. I couldn't even make it through the whole thing until several years after it's first release. Now I love it for how brilliantly made it is.
I saw it when it came out in '73 it was at a theater about an hour away I would take different friends different nights, mostly we saw people walking out. On the way home one evning I took a back road and went over a one lane bridge and it was late after midnight, there where over 100 cats on the bridge it really freaked us out with their eyes glowing in the dark and we were only 17 a night I'll never forget!
Legend has it that all the actors or people who participated in this film ended very badly.
The young priest at the end of the praying over Father Karras is giving him the Last Rites. In the Catholic Church the Last Rites are given to the dying so their sins are forgiven and they can enter heaven immediately.
Catholics are weird. They do things the Bible says not to do, and have all kinds of idols even though it's literally one of the commandments to not have idols. The virgin Mary is not an idle and neither are any of the saints. Only Jesus should be idolized and not in the way that they do it by idolizing the depiction of his death instead of his life. They also give their priests the power to forgive sins which only God has the power to do... I can go on and on. I don't believe in any of it, but I grew up believing it and learning about it.
Loved your and your sister's reactions to this film, Ash. You're absolutely right to say that audiences were shocked and terrified when it was released. There were stories in the news about audience members throwing up and passing out. Some cinemas in America had priests present during screenings. For a 1973 film, it still retains its power today.
I genuinely wish UA-cam was around so we could get peoples reactions back then..appreciate the love mate, thank you ❤️
Really enjoyed your reaction, you have a wonderful grasp of the power of this film. Loved how you recognised
how "REAL" the film feels: That is part of its power. The effect it had on its release was indescribable. I worked
at one of the major galleries in London, and 11 years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Ellen Burstyn. Lovely
lady.
Thank you so much for the love mate, appreciate it ❤️
Your wig literally got snatched honey!!! 🤣 I think your sis is referring to exorcism of Emily rose, the real life id of this story's person came out last week if you guys haven't seen it. 😬 Also Linda Blair said in interviews that she has permanent back damage from the devices they put her in to do the scenes where she was being tossed around at just 14, unfortunately to give us this masterpiece. 👍🏽😈💯
Can you imagine what this movie was like back when it first came out? This was way before people became desensitized to movies. So this had to be the most God awful, terrifying thing ever. People were actually fainting and puking in the theater.
Hands down still one of the scariest movies to this day. Solid performances great directing and screenplay
Honestly they will never make horror movies likes this..and oh STILL HOLDS UP!
@@justtrustash The Exorsism Of Emily Rose....good movie based on the case of the girl that died in Germany. U mentioned
@@justtrustash another true storry...the movie VERONICA bout a girl on Spain. She also died
Another brilliant reaction vid, keep em coming. Think yaz would enjoy watching the making of The Exorcist documentary. Seeing how the practical effects were made & hearing about the eerie things that happened behind the scenes, made me appreciate the movie so much more
This movie haunted my dreams as a child in the 80s. I was fortunate enough to watch it's extended cut release in theater in the late 90s as a teenager. I still remember people running out of their seats mid movie. My mother has only seen The Exorcist once and to this day refuses to ever watch it again. She can't even listen to me talk about it. Lol Definitely my favorite horror movie of all time. Thank y'all so much for this gem of a reaction video.
Stood in line from early in the morning and got in to see the 12:00 show. Lines were wrapped around the street to get in. There were people who vomited in the theater when I was there and I heard of others that had fainted during others showings. It was the first of its kind! It was definitely shocking to hear the language coming out of 11 year Linda Blair! :) That was the second thing everyone talked about after the horror.
This movie traumatized me when I was 13. I saw it the year it came out. My parents took me and my best friend to see it, not realizing how unsuitable for children it was. We sat there with our eyes bugged out and our mouths open because we had never seen or heard anything like that in our young lives. We left the theater before the end, as did many people. It disturbed me so bad because I was close to the same age as Regan and I could identify with her. If a demon could get her - he could get me too!! I couldn't even listen to the Tubular Bells music at the end! Anytime they played it on the radio I had to jump and turn it off. I did not watch it again until I was in my 30's, and even then I could feel the tension in the back of my neck. I watch a lot of horror movies and its easy to become desensitized to all he blood, gore and violence. But back in the 70's, this movie was truly disturbing!
Linda Blair went on to be a successful actress in the mid to late 70s starring in controversial movies like “Sara T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic,” “Sweet Hostage,” with Martin Sheen, “Born Innocent,” and “The Exorcist II.” These movies with adult themes starring a teenage girl on network television ceased being made after the 1970s. She remained a celebrity but her career never matched her success in the 1970s.
I saw this when I was 5 alone. I begged my mom to let me watch this. This movie got me addicted to Horror films. Such a masterpiece. Great reaction. The actress went through a lot during the filming...the actress who played the mom was injured and there were deaths during filming that people associated with the film being cursed.
jonzgurl4ever lol I'd love to watch you give a TedTalk entitled: "Why you should show your 5-year-old kids 'The Exorcist.'" And why were you begging your Mom to watch it? You must've sensed there was a quality film that was awaiting you to view, albeit a rather intense one. You go, jonzgurl!
I had recurring nightmares for years as a child because of this Horror MASTERPIECE.
One of the scariest and most terrifying films of all time
Facts!!!
The original audience reaction to people who viewed this movie in theatres in 1973 were utter shock, fear, and terror. Some people walked out because they couldn't take it. Some people actually fainted in the theater and needed medical attention. True fact: church attendance across the world skyrocketed after this film. Legendary film is an understatement at this point . Cultural phenomenon 💯🙏🏽
I saw it on it's release in 73 in a crowded theatre and yes people were screaming, hiding their faces and some headed for the exits. never seen an audience react to a film like that since. quite the theatrical experience. i was right with them, didn't sleep for a week.
i dont consider this a horror movie, its a drama with horror elements. one of the best dramas.
Nah
Linda Blair was 14 years old
During the filming of the Exorcist. Linda Blair had a lot of difficulty living with the aftermath of The Exorcist. The back injury was far more serious than I ever imagined and really affected my health negatively for a long time.” Even ten years after the film's release, Blair was still suffering from chronic pain.