20 Things You Didn't Know About The Exorcist

Scandalous secrets and hidden facts behind one of the greatest horror films of all time.
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[@Sick_Boy_Rick74]

My Mom was pretty late in her pregnancy with me and she and my Dad went to go see this classic! She was a big horror film fan and didn’t want to miss The Exorcist just because I was getting close to making my grand entrance into the world. She did have some vomiting but obviously did not miscarry me! Lol. RIP Mom(12/1951- 2-2021) and Dad(8/1946-8/2014). I love and miss you both very much.

[@Platysmapus]

I bought a necklace with a Pazuzu charm a few years back. That very night my bed started vibrating. I thought I was about to have a seizure or some kind of episode. Then I realized the whole building was shaking. Turns out it was just a small earthquake. Which is very rare where I live, but I remember thinking ‘I had this coming’.

[@BruceLeroyUK]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾

[@availanila]

Pazuzu trolled you. 😥😥😯😂

[@Machinu5]

Weird story!

[@user-sm4qy8yc2r]

That's crazy

[@jaqjynx]

Okay, what is wrong with people sending death threats to kids?! I know it still happens and it’s just F’d up.

[@bosbos1826]

I laughed because I didn't read that initially as what's wrong with people...why would they do that, I read it as 'Hey I don't see a prob with sending kids death threats, in fact it's still pretty popular' 😂😂😂😂🤦🏽‍♂️ but I read it again and ohhhhhh gotcha 😂😂😂

[@franciscocota6440]

@@bosbos1826 I ws the same XD

[@franciscocota6440]

That's being a zealot in a nutshell.

[@melteague117]

I actually never knew that Max was only 44 years old when they filmed this! I really did think he was an old man when this was filmed, what an amazing makeup job.

[@Puckrocky]

I am amazed they left out the fact that a serial killer is an extra in the movie.

[@MattyDante]

Umm what? Guess I've never heard that one lol

[@JCRendle]

@@MattyDante one of the hospital technicians was a real hospital technician to make the scene more realistic, but they didn't know until later that he had a string of killings under his belt xx

[@JabroneyDirt]

Then the list would be called "20 things you didn't know, and 1 thing Matthew McKinney does", amitire??

[@satellite851]

10:37 to 10:41 behind Linda, and 10:46 to 10:48! 32 year old Radiographer (at time of filming, late 72/early 73) Paul Bateson, google it!

[@GiDD504]

Right!?!? The male nurse literally KILLED PEOPLE and they left it out.

[@pythonkatie1985]

Thank God Kubrick didn't direct. The cast had a hard enough time as it was.

[@ericfurst6091]

pythonkatie K good point. 🤔

[@6thwilbury2331]

Hahah nice. 🤣

[@williamsturgis3634]

Not only was Max von sydow 45 they unknowingly made him appear as he really did at 85

[@thunderhorse6666]

Absolutely insane how great that makeup work was. Wish the same person that did his makeup would of done the old man makeup in Prometheus

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

I took my first girlfriend to this movie against the wishes of her mother. It was a cultural event. Two people threw up. Many left. It was amazing.

[@mangot589]

Make Racists Afraid Again My dad took me against the wishes of my mother lol. I didn’t sleep for a year. I was 12. To be fair, my dad was kinda clueless, and I don’t think he realized.

[@emilyrivas4951]

PUKED?? Why? I know it was bad but I didn't think it would make anyone physically sick. Did they do it in the theater?

[@melteague117]

My mother took me with her to the drive-in movie theater to see it with her on a weekend that my older siblings were with their dad and the scene that Reagan’s neck swelled up and her voiced changed to a demons I hid into the floorboard of the car and made my mother turn down the volume on the speaker hanging on the windshield and told her to tell me when the cartoons came on that they would play at the end of all the movies! Even I knew as a very young child that something demonic was going on in that movie that was scary!

[@IcarusArtYT]

@@emilyrivas4951 Idk i remember I ate alot of popcorn before and threw up...maybe that?

[@1locust1]

Viewing this video reminded of all of the long lines at the theatre that I had to stand in back in the 70's.

[@orchidrose1410]

The male nurse during the testing scene turned out to be a serial killer!

[@satellite851]

10:37 to 10:41 behind Linda, and 10:46 to 10:48! 32 year old Radiographer (at time of filming, late 72/early 73) Paul Bateson, google it!

[@BruceLeroyUK]

No way!

[@BruceLeroyUK]

Mac TonyMicMac thanks man

[@RayKlassen]

@@BruceLeroyUK TOTAL WAY!! Just Google it!! It's true!

[@joshuabrown3361]

I just finished my first viewing. Genuinely I feel like it's one of the scariest movies of all time. Even though it spends more time on the buildup for the actual exorcism, but I feel like it just builds the atmosphere.

[@cookstersmoviereviews4296]

You can put as much blood or gore in horror movies as you want. But this movie scares me alot. It did the first time i watched it and still does now

[@antoncancre3394]

What? not mention of how the seizure scene resulted in Linda Blair having a permanently injured spine?

[@skandababy]

Well, obviously, you already know about that, everyone does... this is 20 things you DIDN'T know.

[@soundmind5318]

Excellent video. Didn't the main priest from Iraq was 45. He looked 85.

[@melinewaller1129]

Sound Mind yes!!! Max von Sydow was 44 when the film was released! The make up was so amazing on him, when he passed at the age of 90 this past March he really did look like he did in the exorcist

[@spegynmerbles3993]

This is honestly the most frightening horror movie I’ve ever seen

[@girpo]

And the Greatest Horror movie ever made. Love it.

[@chrish3126]

I couldn't stop laughing when I watched it. And I was a teenager at the time

[@spegynmerbles3993]

Chris H wow you’re so cool 🙄

[@JoseRodriguez-lo9wi]

Yes the greatest horror movie ! The Shining doesnt even come close to this movie, I hate that people try to put them on the same league. I hate that some of these channels will put the Shining over The Excorcist

[@spegynmerbles3993]

Jose Rodriguez the book was way better than the movie. I think the shining is my favorite Steven king book, but they sure botched the story in the movie

[@joesatva]

Such a classic!! This is one of my favorite spiritual movie ever. I can’t still believe I live only a couple of blocks away from the WB studios.

[@irunsharma8737]

It is actually a good horror movie. One that really scares a person watching it alone at night in the dark 😜.

[@GrandmaAnna]

The angiogram tech was really a angiogram tech! He also went on to become a serial killer!

[@Wolf359inc]

Had no idea about the makeup on Max von Sydow. I thought he was just one of those people that always looked old!

[@seanfuller5627]

Same

[@marieantoinettescake9513]

LOL!! Everybody says that

[@jukodebu]

and 50 years later no one can even do makeup as good as that

[@lookatthisdude1640]

This is why the exorcist is my horror film it is so good to be an old film I can tell they put effort and hard work on this film especially Linda Blair she was only 14 and she was injured on set while being strapped to a bed for a possession scene

[@mrcydonia]

Von Sydow in old age makeup looks almost exactly like von Sydow did when he actually got old.

[@georgieboy9101]

Here is another fact, the original film score for the Exorcist can be found on youtube. It's not a complete album but a segment. What is astonishing is that they could never come up with a good sequel.

[@boober4413]

My brother graduated from McQuaid Jesuit High School in upstate New York. Father O'Malley was his AP English teacher

[@beetusman2435]

That jump scare in the beginning was a dirty trick... well played whatculture

[@vinceholmesjr.1369]

I wish the TV series got more love. It was dope!

[@sunshineglow9446]

Is it worth watching

[@alanmcmillan6982]

Say again. The show was awesome.

[@dkpqzm]

I feel bad for some actors who play such an iconic characters that they can never shake off. I believe that is what happened to Linda Blair, her greatest roll was also the one that ended her career (she always took on very controversial rolls, but Reagan McNeil was too much for the world to handle) The same thing happened to Anthony Perkins after "Psycho" and he never recovered.

[@adamspencer246]

I swear there was a guy in the operation scene who would later be a real life murderer

[@colormeplaid]

yes! paul bateson

[@KattMurr]

Yes there was....

[@BarryElBeardo]

Yes and William Freidkin would go on to make the movie ‘Cruising’ which is about those murders. So weird how it’s all intertwined

[@jmcclain8237]

"Glorifying satan"? Have they seen this film? Those people must live in opposite land.

[@joconnell8145]

Both facts ^^^

[@Fitzpatrick65]

21 Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American former radiographer and convicted murderer. He appeared as a radiological technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year.

[@YoungSwaggness]

Great vid 👌🏾

[@PaulSmith-kw6we]

Actually, von Sydow (and Miller) didn't forget their lines. They were trying not to laugh hysterically at hearing sweet little Blair saying "Your mother sucks c** in Hell!" and demanded the camera to cut.

[@larpdude7308]

Whenever chaotic stuff happens on the sets of horror films, especially those dealing with demons, people are always like "oh it's cursed! supernatural!" but when that same stuff happens on non-horror films, it's just "part of the process"...

[@davidkglevi]

That Groucho thing made my day!

[@thetowerstillstands]

You forgot the murderer who was a technician in the scene with the needle. He even was on camera!

[@JoseRodriguez-lo9wi]

What???

[@thetowerstillstands]

@@JoseRodriguez-lo9wi Paul Bateson was convicted in 1979 for the murder of film industry journalist Addison Verrill. He played the technician in the film. The procedure you saw was real and he knew how it was done. Big shock!

[@satellite851]

10:37 to 10:41 behind Linda, and 10:46 to 10:48! 32 year old Radiographer (at time of filming, late 72/early 73) Paul Bateson, google it!

[@levidingle5311]

Huh please explain this statement

[@punkwarlord9281]

@@JoseRodriguez-lo9wi Paul bateson look him up

[@antoncancre3394]

The house did catch fire, but that is because it was being used as a training exercise for the local fire department.

[@robradical7213]

Shhhhh you're ruining their dumb demonic haunting narrative.

[@cerisem7727]

Do 20 things I didn't know about the Omen Whatculture!

[@LinseyLovesHorror1986]

You forgot about the serial killer in the hospital

[@KenzieRetro]

you're thinking of exorcist 3

[@shirleykitchens5878]

@ItchyRedRobin WHAT?!! In what scene?

[@shirleykitchens5878]

@ItchyRedRobin thanks ✌

[@satellite851]

10:37 to 10:41 behind Linda, and 10:46 to 10:48! 32 year old Radiographer (at time of filming, late 72/early 73) Paul Bateson, google it!

[@chrisevans5259]

The only movie to ever freak me out,...no matter how many times I watch it....

[@pamelamays4186]

I'm not sure if it's an urban legend, but, allegedly Linda Blair wasn't allowed to see the completed film because she wasn't old enough to legally see an R rated movie.

[@gregyear201]

Not true. There is video of her stating that she went to the premiere and at the end of the movie, the audience gave her a standing ovation.

[@Clow00]

OK ok, i didn't know a few

[@lisascarrott6142]

Awesome movie one of the top 3 in my eyes I still watch today the exorcist jaws and the omen

[@sfcSpidey]

Weird thing...every time I’ve watched these movies I also read a book called the demonologist I’ve broken a bone I hope me watching this video will not count on my streak

[@KattMurr]

"What a pair of Willys!"..😂..that's funny as hell....lmfao!!!?

[@alexnuttall9243]

I knew about Friedkin slapping an actor before calling action before watching the video but didn't know who. It's interesting finding out who and given the context of the moment, I now think damn. The extent a director would go to to get the right reaction.

[@itsmrlonewolf]

Watched it when I was 10! The 1999 version and yeah, scared the crap out of me!

[@Capgpro1]

My sister was 8. Yikes!!

[@Tretrebonghits]

I don't know anything about the guy.. but my great uncle played the old priest. Now it's 21 things you didn't know! One of them you didn't care to know. lol

[@AmandaHugandKiss411]

The Exorcist: made half a century ago ... Hearing that said out loud, made me feel down right old 😳😥🤣🤣🤣

[@hcondrack]

Linda Blair didnt have it quite so easy. She fractured her spine from the levitation mechanism

[@punkwarlord9281]

The thing I find amazing is max von sydow ended up looking exactly like the make up version of him in this movie

[@jamesalexhowlett]

I remember watching this film for the first time, it was my friends 14th birthday, and it was a sleepover, the film was put on and everybody laughed at the film almost the entire film.

[@xMellomii]

I’m shocked you didn’t mention the actual serial killer that’s in the movie

[@willthomas2310]

Who?

[@xMellomii]

will Thomas One of the hosptial workers who helps reghan onto the bed. He has a beard I believe

[@willthomas2310]

@@xMellomii wow! Didn't know that....

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

@@xMellomii Read the book, 'On The Farm', I think is what it's called. A psychotic pig farmer murdered & dismembered 49 street workers and put some of their remains in his freezers along with his ground up pork for resale, sent other stuff to the rendering plant. Deemed, 'worst' serial killer in history, who fed prostitutes to pigs and sparks rage by publishing the book. Robert Willie Pickton was convicted OF ONLY 6 women of 2nd degree murder in 2007 BECAUSE the judge didn't want to put the jury through ALL of the awfully gruesome stuff he did. The full book is like 700 pages. Pickton: In His Own Words, Killer's Story About Himself...that's the book the killer wrote but it's abit hard to find the other version ;' On the farm' I think is what it's called. I think Wal-Mart might have it on line still but I wasn't going to spend $30.+ or whatever it was. Seems no one really cared about the women because they were 'working girls', very sad. Still...the 'girls' got at least some 'pay back', the same folks could couldn't care less about the fate of those poor women...WELL...I'm sure they 'enjoyed' the 'women' at their BREAKFAST TABLES and with other meals. Don't blame me for that statement blame the guy that killed them. I read alot of the free pages provided, they skip around.. but that guy was THE worst disgusting clown I've EVER come across. He makes Jack the Ripper look like a choir boy.

[@xMellomii]

GhostCity Shelton yeah isn’t he fr Vancouver Canada? I’ve heard of this one

[@precious_muse]

I was hoping one of these facts would involve “Tubular Bells.”

[@antoncancre3394]

Tubular Bells is still one of my favorite albums.

[@54321FUCKYOU2]

I’m gonna go have some Camp Bell’s split pea soup.

[@aquariusseven1651]

Noticed that too😂😂😂

[@AndrewLakeUK]

Watch out you don't spew it on any cler gee men

[@micharlcampbell4977]

MM Good MM Good....

[@nodrog302]

Do you have anything on the anomaly at time stamp 1:02:13 ? Please...

[@matthewirvin6505]

Imagine a horror movie one day that causes us to pass out !!

[@hcondrack]

For goodness sake its Sy-dow. Not siddow

[@candice_ecidnac]

You should hear how they massacre Guillermo del Toro's name.

[@sarahperry7431]

My favourite horror film

[@stormwatcher1299]

You can find an unedited version of Regan’s lines in one scene right here on KZbin, IIRC. This is one of my favorite movies. I’ve probably seen it as many times as Beetlejuice has.

[@BruceLeroyUK]

Where? I can’t find it

[@NotDecided420]

"It's a good day for an Exorcist" "You'd like that?" "It'll bring us closer together" "You and Reagan?" *"Us and you"* That was foreboding af. And there was no successful Exorcism in this movie when you think about it.

[@missloublou4628]

I remember the first time I watched this I was at a sleepover ae were all about 12 or 13 & when the film ended we heard foot steps outside and bottles clinking together, turns out it was the milk man her parents told us after we all ran thru the house screaming 😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@thefirstKenpachi]

10mins, Carotid artery not cateroid

[@davidstone-haigh4880]

I laughed our loud...........

[@psyko9660]

I knew all of these facts from watching the documentaries, reading books, and watching interviews with the actors

[@jaybayer3670]

Absolutely adore this film

[@rickc2102]

Father Ash gets excited about a trio of Willys, can't remember how to pronounce carotid.

[@GiDD504]

Did she not mention the literal serial killer that played the male nurse?

[@paulelroy6650]

Camp-bell fucking camp-bell. Another win for whatculture there. Well done Ash!

[@markandrews3177]

Don't want to sound like a know-it-all but I knew most of these facts. The Blue-ray edition I had featured documentaries that covered most of this stuff. Didn't know about Pezuzu, though.

[@riculfriculfson7243]

Are you sure about the pronunciation of "clergy" :D :D :D

[@KimDahl77]

20 things about the Exorcist that I didn't know that I wanted to know. But now I do know that I want to know it. I knew it!

[@th1agu]

Best film ever!!!!!!

[@levidingle5311]

Please oh please do the Omen. Next

[@Merylstreep1949]

One of the ultimate horror movies 👍🍸

[@markcooke729]

Cartoid artery? His brother Carotid must be pissed off for not getting recognition for his role...

[@joconnell8145]

LMAO!!

[@ILLMATICPROUDCTIONS]

The world needed Scary Movie, we needed something to soften the blow this movie had on the world. Even several years later.

[@jewgirl952]

In most, if not all movies, containing a lot of dangerous stunts, there are injuries. But because this was about the supernatural, it was more noticed and thought to be caused supernatural forces.

[@lisagiannos4657]

Omg!😱Poor Linda Blair aged 13 after movie was released, needed body guards to protect her from strangers sending her death threats all because of playing as Regan - The possessed girl.

[@Drp_br_]

I love dis film boi

[@kelst75]

I actually didn't know about Max Von Sydow's make up. I should've because he only died a few months ago and this movie came out almost 50 years ago

[@helentart1980]

scariest film ever is Come And See, I just watched it and it stayed with me for days after, absolutely horrific

[@jaydisqus3353]

That's funny, it used to come on broadcast television once a year. And that went back to the 70s.

[@PatrolClip]

👏👏👏love this movie...First time I saw it coukd sleep that night...Did you Know Linda Blair needed psychiatric treatment after the movie?

[@candice_ecidnac]

I think you mean psychiatric, not "phyco", since "phyco" isn't a word.

[@hopeisintheether2888]

The Exorcist was a good movie. Because most horror parodies try too hard, and this film never took it or it’s audience too seriously. This movie went further by pointing out the arrogance, ignorance and cult like behavior of religions in general, and Christianity specifically. It not the best religious satire, but it is close.

[@GiDD504]

Real serial killer in this movie is the craziest thing to me.

[@DeadWolvV__X__]

i LoVe U Ash!

[@finsfan86]

How did you leave out the LITERAL SERIAL KILLER THAT PLAYED THE NURSE? Paul Bateson anyone? You can see him at 10:38 with his hand on Linda Blair's shoulder... But please, tell me about the old leather wallet used to make sound effects.

[@germanfornine]

Very funny movie!

[@jonathanbarker1016]

Well do know is one scariest.movies of all time .But it was found to watch with my girlfriend. at the time , Which was my High School days when this movie was not tha told at the time , But it a little watered down ,If saw it on regular. tv of the tat time , Or maybe it CineMax at the time when watched it , But is great to watch with the opposite sex when watching it ,And they don't make scary movies like that anymore . But this was still cool even if now really old ,And like still holds up after all these years .

[@melindakinnaird]

Wasn't Dana Plato also considered for the role of Reagan?

[@Zeldarw104]

Wow!!!!!😟😮

[@MastaSmack]

Me?

[@thathorrorguy1974]

Fun fact: Pazuzu is Godzilla's guardian angle

[@joconnell8145]

Would that be a right angle or a 60 degree angle?

[@davidstone-haigh4880]

Clurgy men....hahahahahah ace.

[@sonnyr.3842]

I've seen all the exorcist film and franchise. While father Merrin from the exorcist was great I still prefer stellan skarsgard as father Merrin in the beginning and dominion. He was like a modern battle priest worthy of Pazuzu's Arch Nemesis.

[@gaycatlover3030]

1:24 Evangelicals causing chaos since always.

[@joboyogi]

More proof that old school directors just wanted to torture their actors. These days, instead of torturing them, just hire better actors.

[@Tysandifer]

Nile called it on pazuzu EVIL TO CAST OUT EVIL

[@GodMelo]

hello cultured people/beings

[@sebicmiel4221]

Hello there

[@AxeKick80]

Greetings, fellow genteel and sophisticated commenter of KZbin.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

👻🤘 "Here!" & friends💀🙃👽😨

So when is Whatculture going to list the things I "didn't know" about the Exorcist?

[@chonchalaexploradora22]

I still can’t watch this movie!!! I’m super scared too and I’m a horror fan!!

[@girpo]

It’s the BEST movie ever made. Really. Do yourself a favor.....

[@katashworth41]

I did know some of these, but then I listen to Wittertainment so that’s a given.

[@ellbo2]

And watched Kermode's documentary on the film

[@wgbowlesiii]

This is the SCARIEST movie I ever saw!