- Director
- William Friedkin
- Year
- 1973
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 122 min
Also released as
- The Exorcist (Director's Cut)
- Екзорцист
- De Duivel-uitbanner
- Exorsisten
- หมอผีเอ็กซอร์ซิสต์
- エクソシストディレクターズカット版
- エクソシスト：1973
- L'exorciste: Montage prolongé du réalisateur
- Vymýtac dábla
- Manaaja - Ennennäkemätön versio
- L'Exorciste : Version intégrale
- Der Exorzist - Die längere Fassung
- Der Exorzist - Die neue Fassung
- Der Exorzist - Director's Cut
- Shoitan Raat
- Shaitaanee Raat
- शैतानी रात
- Jengir
- L'esorcista - Versione integrale
- Exorcist
- Egzorcistas. Versija, kurios dar nematete
- L'exorcista
- The Exorcist: The Version You Haven't Seen Yet
- The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen
- William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist
- Isterivač djavola
- O Exorcista
- Exorcisten
Filed under
The Exorcist
Ten Academy Award nominations and ambulances outside cinemas. Still the commercial ceiling for horror.
Friedkin got what he wanted on set by firing rifles without warning, slapping actors before takes, and jerking Ellen Burstyn on a harness hard enough to permanently injure her back. Whether that was necessary is a conversation the industry has had ever since; the take where she screams in pain is in the film.
What holds up is not the head-turning. It is the first hour, which is about a mother taking her daughter through the American medical system: the tests, the specialists, the arteriogram filmed in clinical detail. By the time anybody mentions a priest the film has already established that every rational option has been exhausted.
Max von Sydow was 44 and playing 70. The dubbing of Regan's demon voice is Mercedes McCambridge, who fought Warner for a credit and won.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
Elsewhere
- UK banned · 1988 to 1999. Not a DPP title. Warner withheld it from UK video for eleven years rather than submit it under the Video Recordings Act, which produced a de facto ban and a thriving trade in imported tapes.
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