How does the exorcist get possessed

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Demonic possession. Edit source History Talk 0. Pazuzu gets inside Regan. Production was shut down for two months. A costly delay, although hardly the worst the devil has ever done. The truth is, he used the sound of bees in some early sequences, which triggers an innate fear response in most people.

That face, pictured above, was never meant to be fully detected by the audience. As for other images people purport to see in the film …? Unless, as the Rev. Billy Graham proposed, the devil really did makes its way into some frames of The Exorcist.

Home Movies The Exorcist : 10 creepy details from the scariest movie ever made. The Exorcist : 10 creepy details from the scariest movie ever made. Save FB Tweet More. The Exorcist film. Close this dialog window Streaming Options. Most chilling is the true story Friedkin learned at the start of the production….

Why would the Catholic church help The Exorcist? Or, the flip-side: Max von Sydow looks like he has always been in his 80s! The demon wanted his showdown there in Georgetown because the author lived there, but that's not a very good reason , and Merrin was on retreat in upstate New York.

Karras was chosen as the go-between because of his crisis of faith and geographical location, and the demon needed something really big and nasty to get the plot moving, but having even a fictional priest do something like that wasn't going to fly in print, and so it's left very vague. It's possible that this point is cleared up in one of the subsequent books or screenplays, I can't remember anymore. Messing with ouija boards and such opens up doors to demonic oppression in general, so perhaps for the movie that was assumed knowledge.

I'm pretty sure it was Regan. I don't think this is ever clarified in the movie per se, but I seem to remember either Friedkin or Blatty mentioning it off-handedly in some commentary track or interview or Pazuzu could have possessed someone else although I doubt that someone would have been Karras; that the demon could not possess Karras, at least not without his consent, seems pretty crucial to the whole film , but that's a lot to infer.

There isn't any particular reason it couldn't have been Regan -- it's not as though she couldn't have sneaked out of the house. Best answer: It's popular teaching in conservative Christian circles or, at least, it was when I was a teen that Ouija board use can makes a person vulnerable to possession by the spirits that are being contacted.

See this page, for instance. I don't know whether this idea precedes the Exorcist, which incorporated it into the plot, or whether it only came out because of the Exorcist. But the idea as I encountered it is either that 1 all the spirits one contacts through the Ouija board are evil or 2 a sufficient number of them are evil to make it likely that you're going to interact with a bad one.

Apparently, using the board successfully to communicate with a spirit opens a pathway that allows that same Spirit to possess you. I was warned as a kid to always, always, always avoid Ouija board because I could wind up possessed. Obviously thousands of teens do use the board with no signs of possession, unless they are usually possessed by demons of Lust, Illiteracy and Vapid Consumerism.

Surely the demon would have just jumped into the nearest person he could possess once he realised his host was dying - there were certainly plenty around at the time. Read more: The 25 best zombie movies that will turn you veggie. Shock-horror: another movie ends with the victim having no memory of the traumatising events which happened to them I guess you could argue that it was really Pazuzu the whole time who did those things, so why would Regan remember?

So, was she lying? And probably made for some interesting therapy sessions…. Read more: 12 Halloween-themed movies to make you laugh, cry, and hide behind the sofa. Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! Lauren O'Callaghan.