Linda Blair was such an incredible actress in this film. Given her young age at the time it's even more impressive.

I never get tired of watching people watch The Exorcist for the first time. It's an amazing film.

Jason Miller was great in this. Also, I like how Reagan's mother was hysterical, yet one of the more rational characters in the film.

I met Linda Blair a few years ago. She's really lovely, and runs an animal shelter now.

Almost 50 years on and it’s still a really unsettling film to watch.

Linda Blair is a great actress! She was never the same after this movie! Can u imagine what all she went through! Prayer of protection for anyone watching 🙏

"Why does it have to be so weird and sexual like that?" Because it's a demon. It exists to corrupt and destroy everything it touches. As for Karras' medallion, it was a St. Joseph medallion, not St. Christopher, which is a common misconception. The inscription reads "Sancte Joseph ora pro nobis," which translates to "Saint Joseph pray for us". One of St. Joseph's patronages is against doubt, which is very fitting for Father Karras, who is filled with doubts, but regains his faith at the end.

When Jason Miller asked the stunt man how he managed to roll down the stairs he simply said "Zen". He just left his body.

William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel and screenplay, said the whole point of the "crucifix" scene and such wasn't as a sexual thing. He said, when he was writing it, he came to that point in the story and he thought to himself what was the worst thing he could think of that would finally convince this atheist mother that this was supernatural and she needed to go to a priest.

Fun fact: Max von Sydow, the actor who played Father Merrin, was 43 at the time the movie was filmed in 1972. The old age make-up used to make him appear as the 80 year old priest is considered some of the best ever put to film. In fact, it was a close match to how he looked when the actor reached 80 years old in 2009. Also fun fact: the character of Damien Karras was Greek, the writing on his St. Joseph medallion was in Greek. Legion (the name of sequel as written by William Peter Blatty), or The Exorcist III as the film named by the studio, is one of the best sequels ever made. I'd suggest reading the books first, as they give more context to the entire story. Avoid 'The Exorcist II: The Heretic' at all costs, unless for purposes of the Pazuzu Drinking Game ;)

Congratulations! Not many movie reaction viewers figure out that the medallion protected Father Karas and when the demon had a chance to rip it off him, Father Karas was no longer protected. One thing that many viewers neglect to notice is when Father Karas comes to visit Regan with the tape recorder, the demon clearly said he wanted Karas' soul! The demon said that the exorcism would bring him and them together. You see that is the whole reason why the demon possessed Regan. It was to get to Karas because to get the soul of a priest is a high prize to obtain for the devil! But Karas was smarter than the devil and he got the devil to come into him and then he sacrificed his life for Regan. The highest gift one can give is one's life for others. Karas is the hero!

I heard an adult interview with Linda Blair a few years back on the radio. She touched on a lot of things about like about the difficulty getting roles, how back then (like now, but worse in that era) child stars often went into addiction issues, and both the fun and difficulties on set for this… two neat things about her that she talked about during it and one general film bit of trivia that makes sense: 1). To get it cold enough to cause the breath of people in her room to show they had to refrigerate the entire thing… and then th that dehydrated the air so much the breath still wouldn’t show so they had to have the rom freezing AND then pump in moisture to get it to work. So those scenes were performed in an icy cold, moisturized-air room…. And the others got to, under their robes, wear layers of warm clothing but she had to be in just that nightgown so she was freezing her ass off during it. 2). She expressed that no, since it was all just making a film, she wasn’t ever seriously afraid during the making of it…. Youre the one in makeup, surrounded by staff, cameras, lighting, mics, etc…. But for continuity the makeup/prosthetics team had an almost life-sized doll they kept in the prep room that looked like her as she was at the point of each shooting scene. She wasn’t afraid making the film, but she was afraid of the doll of herself. And the just generally neat thing about the making is that for the vomiting scene they had to test, as makes sense when you think about it, various brands of pea soup. They found Campbell's was their first try and it didn’t work and so went on and found an off-brand they could make the right consistency lol.

I never get tired of watching reactions to this movie. It goes from, "How scary could an old movie be?" to looks of horror and disgust so quickly.

The spider walk scene is one of the most iconic and scariest scenes ever.

Director William Friedken; when asked what the movies about he never says it's about a girl who gets possessed. He always says "It's a movie about Non Believers becoming Believers"

Fr. Dyer (played by an actual priest) gave last rights to Karras at the foot of the stairs about 15 times, but couldn't put enough emotion into it. Director Friedkin asked him, "Do you trust me?" Dyer nodded. Friedkin hauled back and SMACKED Dyer in the face, and yelled "Roll it." The last take is what you saw.

Congratulations on graduating from horror school. Not trusting the happy ending and asking 'are you sure....' is a sure sign of experience. Another awesome job guys. I am again thoroughly entertained.

Max Von Sydow (Father Merrin) was only in his early 40s when the film was shot. His old age make-up is incredible; the best I've ever seen in a film.

The dichotomy of an innocent little girl possessed by the most perverted, disgusting and sadistic demon is a good part of what makes this movie a horror classic. It is very disturbing, particularly for the 1973 audiences, and i love that there was zero background music letting you know beforehand about the scary moments. I made the same assumption as you about the medal, so i'd say it's accurate and it was indeed for protection against evil. You watched with an open mind and the right attitude and awareness of the time when it was made. I enjoyed revisiting one of my favorite movies EVER through your reaction.

Father Dyer, who gets the kiss at the end, was actually played by father William O’Malley, SJ, originally brought in as an advisor.

Ellen Burstyn is amazing in this role and it’s a performance she deserved the Oscar nomination. She should have won.

20:20 the look of "Yep, I am not ready for this.""

I've noticed that most people get confused by her candle flaring up in the attic. Old cobwebs collect fine dust and a naked flame incinerates the whole web in an instant.

Crazy fact: the actor of the male nurse helping Reagan get ready for her cat scan turned out to be a serial killer

24:42 'I don't speak demon very well' hahaha great!

When my mother was young she saw this at the cinema in 1973 and had nightmares for months after (it was the "headturner" that pushed her over the edge). At that time there had been nothing so disturbing and graphic, most horror movies up to that point being campy, monster-of-the-week style popcorn horror movies. When I watched it the first time in the mid-late 80'ies (VHS rental) I didn't really find it particularly scary but I have always been a horror buff and had seen so many horror movies at that point. These days I can appreciate how scary and disturbing it must've been for people back then to experience this at the cinema for the first time. It's a great movie at any rate which I rewatch every couple of years.

To answer the Mrs question about Sal Mineo being a boxing insult. Sal Mineo was a actor best known for his role in the 50's film Rebel without a Cause. He was murdered 3 years after this film was released in 1976.

The neckless represents faith in God (or trust in the Catholic church). At the end of the movie, the Mom handed it to the priest and said, "I thought you might like to keep this." He gave it back to her and said, "Why dont you keep it." In other words, it was a conversion message. He told her to have and hold onto faith in God.

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.

Always felt bad for Jason Miller, the actor who plays Father Carras. He struggled with alcoholism, which profoundly harmed his career and his health. It was great to see him back in part 3.

Got teary eyed with the end confession scene. Just seeing a man help his dying friend to transition into the afterlife and making sure he is pure of heart before he goes, all the while he is crying is so heartbreaking.

I've never seen you guys so quiet. This shit is as real as it was in 1973.

The acting in this film is absolutely unbelievably good

22:03 - that was a movie mistake there, the vomit was supposed to go on or over Karras' shoulder. Instead the aim was off and got him right in the face, the director used that take as the final one so the priest's shock was all real

Can we appreciate that Max von Sydow was playing an old guy in 1973 and was STILL playing old guys as late as 2015 (Force Awakens) and 2016 (Game of Thrones)? What an incredible career.

You really should have shown her Rosemary's Baby, then The Omen, then The Exorcist. Those were the 3 biggest religious-themed horror films of the 70s, from the lesser one to the best. To this day, The Exorcist is the only movie that scares the crap out of me.

That's actually a St. Joseph medal found in Iraq versus the St. Christopher one that is worn by Karras. Here's a good source explaining with the link: The St. Joseph medal (commonly mistakenly referred to as a St. Christopher medal), appears in the film The Exorcist. It features an engraved picture of St. Joseph with Baby Jesus. It is inscribed with the Latin phrase, "Sancte Joseph ora pro nobis," which translates to "Saint Joseph pray for us".[1] There is a common misconception that the medal found by Father Merrin in Iraq and the one worn by Father Karras (and his mother) are one and the same, however, that is not necessarily the case. Many people have asked William Peter Blatty about it. William Friedkin's reason for adding the medal to the film was to "'add resonances' to the film". According to Blatty, instead of asking how the medal got from Iraq to Father Karras, people should really be asking "how a contemporary Christian medal got into an archaeological ruin from pre-Christian Nineveh in the first place." When Merrin finds the medal in Iraq, he speaks in Arabic and the English subtitles say "This is strange," however, in Arabic, he is actually asking "What's this doing here?" Blatty believed that this question would never be answered. Source: exorcist.fandom.com/wiki/St._Joseph_medal

This movie went further than any other movie before, and actually it went further than any other possession movie after! If you think about all the movies about possessions and exorcisms, from The Conjuring to Deliver Us From Evil, Emily Rose, or whatever, none of those movies took it that far in terms of the sexual tone of the possession. And we're talking about a little girl here. Now, think about the impact this movie had in 1973 when no one had ever seen any of these movies about possession that we're already used to, that are so common now. It was the first time for people to witness something like that, so sick, so disturbing, so inappropriate, so terrifying, so fucked up. People thought that it was all real, that this thing was actually happening to that little girl, for real. People were running away from the theaters screaming and vomiting and passing out in the streets, many people had to be hospitalized. I think this movie was traumatic at a deep level, at a collective level, it fucked up the world I think. Even now, that after all the atrocities we've seen in horror movies we are kind of used to it, this one has imagery that can still disturb us. In 1973 it was traumatic. And even today it stands out as the movie that took it there where no other movie before or after went.

For some reason, my favorite part is when they’re talking and the moment she mentions an Exorcism, he immediately stops walking and says, “excuse me?”

"I'm going to be fine." Me: choking on food I'm eating from laughing so much!

For such a dark movie, Regan kissing the priest at the end made it one of the more hopeful endings.

The movie is said to be cursed as most of the actors and crew got into unexplained accidents before, during or after filming.

In the scene where Father Dyer was giving the last rites to Father Karras, the actor playing Father Dyer could not show the appropriate amount of distress that the director (William Friedkin) wanted. Friedkin asked the actor playing Father Dyer if he trusted him, when he said yes Friedkin slapped him across the face just before the next take. When Father Dyer's hands are shaking that was from the after slap shock.

I remember watching this when it came out in the theaters. Today's audiences have been exposed to so much gore and violence that they are no longer affected in the same way as they were in 73. Nothing like this had ever been seen before, the presence of real evil in a nice, upscale Washington DC subburb freaked out many people, no matter if they were catholic, protestant or Jew. To see a young acctress like Linda Blair be subjected to the horror of demonic possession seemed far too real. Many wanted the film banned. Before this horror movies were simple Dracula, Frankenstein and werewolf stories with the occasional witch or wizard. Nothing that touched upon peoples core belief. It may have gone unnoticed that Reagan's mother had never even heard of the term excorcism before, the devil had become a fairytale with no real meaning. Priests, Rabbis and others except for a few old fashioned fire and brimstone evangelicals who preached about damnation and he'll fire actually believed in the Devil and evil as real things. Scientists had become unbelievers, young people who were part of the 60s drug culture and anti war movements believed in God and love but not in the devil or evil. Along with an awakening of more traditional religious faith the film spawned so many immitations and copies that soon the power of the films images had faded until most people had lost the fear and terror felt back then. Today like she said it was not scary but more revolting and inappropriate. A big change from 1973 to 2021

"Why does it (the devil) have to be so sexual?" Nothing more evil than the destruction of a child's innocence. That's why all the copycats of this movie are so lame? They have Nickelodeon versions of the what the devil would be like.

A flawless masterpiece! I rented this movie in 2004 and watched it 5 times before I had to return it. Every time it’s on TV I watch it.

The emotions that the opening theme for Tubular Bells evoked lasted quite a long time after watching this movie.

Fun fact: Max von Sydow was only 44 yrs old when he played Father Merrin; the magic of makeup & good acting did the rest

One of the best horror films ever made

The Exorcist, the film that dared, ripped up the rule book & crossed the line in many a persons eyes, i loved the film but i've only seen it once in my 49 years & i wont go there again LOL, but i also love watching people react, still to this day the film disgusts, offends, & traumatizes people of all ages & for that i give it a big thumbs up. I do feel for the young Linda Blair she actually fractured her spine in that bed scene, imagine if that had happened today she would have earned more from suing than wage income. You me & the Movies i've been watching your channel for a while now & you two are fantastic. I'd love to recommend a movie, i've not seen anyone react to this psychological horror it was early 2001 Bill paxton & Matthew McConaughey the film Frailty it was brilliant.

"Or she's possessed? have you considered THAT?" that's the best thing about this movie imo. No movie quite like this had come out before. Like the doctors describe in the film-- at the time, exorcism was kind of a hush-hush thing not many people knew about, even in fiction. and it's so realistic and stressful how they really do try any and all medical solutions at first. and all the now-cliche things leading up to it are so SUBTLE. we never learn the demon's name (but now we know because of the book and the sequels) or if there really was more than one demon or if it was The Devil like it says. and the ouija board is only brought up once, and it's a scene full of little hints like the idea that Reagan has an imaginary friend we never hear about later or the fact she's been making lots of weird animal figurines. maybe they're just art, or maybe they're part of a ritual that "Captain Howdy" has been manipulating her into performing. so much to get your mind racing, even years after the movie's first release, all without spoon-feeding you every little answer. nowadays, any new exorcism film p much owes its entire existence to this movie, tropes and all. and they'll try to be more original by explaining all the nuances to set it apart from this film, but that ends up ruining the subtle mystery like The Exorcist has. Interesting choice to watch the Director's Cut rather than the theatrical version. I kinda like the theatrical cut more because it doesn't flash the demon face on screen so many times, and it starts the "infection" of Reagan a little more subtly but more quickly. However, the Director's Cut has a little more creepy build-up and I think it's the only version with the crab-walk scene. Each version kinda has its own thing going for it. Wish there was a third cut that combines the best of both. Also! I think Linda Blair has actually really cleaned up over the years. She does small-time roles, but last I heard, she's doing quite well. Even guest-starred in a decent episode of Supernatural a few years ago. Sorry for yet another LONG comment lol. This is one of my all-time fav movies. One of those that has something new to take away from it every time I watch. The behind-the-scenes trivia is fascinating, too. Yet another director whose methods are basically why we have labor laws for movie sets lol....

That devil face imprints on your subconscious and you close your eyes and keep seeing it 🥺

🤠 Here we go! Woo hoo! 😂

That upside down downstairs crab walk is still creepy as fuck after nearly 5 decades.

That is an old fashioned way of doing a CT scan with contrast. They inserted the needle and pumped the dye straight into the jugular vein for images of the brain, which needed to be done awake for the doctors to see the dye doing through while the brain is actively functioning.

This was my favorite movie of all time. Filmed almost entirely on location, it felt very real. I've seen the movie several times since I was a kid, and I've read the book at least twice, if not three times. I know demonic possession is a problem. But don't even mention Poltergeist in the same breath with The Exorcist. I don't think there was anything that significant about the necklace other than it was for memorabilia of the man who once had doubts but saved a girl from the powers of Satan, and who gave his life for hers. On second thought, the necklace is symbolic of the acquired faith they've all gone through over the experience.

"It's probably not scary at all, I'm gonna be fine" the only prediction the Mrs. gets wrong lmao

IMO The Exorcist is the greatest and scariest horror movie ever made!

Great reaction. The third instalment is considered the best psychological thriller of all time. The Exorcist III ( Aka Legion ) 1990. Could not recommend it more. It is a companion to the original.

Fun fact. At the end when Damien is getting his last rites read, the priests hand is shaking. Apparently after repeated takes, the actor wasn’t getting it right, so the director slapped the shit out of him to shake him up. Apparently it worked.

I recently watched this movie and since I had watched so many other horror movies I was confident, I was surprised how much this movie scared the crap out of me.

The director took great pains to make sure Linda Blair was kept in a light mood and having a good time on set. She said herself she was too young to understand any of what she was doing and had fun the entire time playing pretend. There's "making of" footage that shows how the movie magic is made and what is put on screen is not what is happening while the work is being done. It was after she became world famous and the pressures of Hollywood that messed her up, not the imagery made in post production which she didn't even see until she was much older. She was stunned how diffetent the dialogue she mouthed was so much different than what the voice over actors put in.

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Captain Howdy is the one who convinced me to subscribe to this channel. He's a big fan.

Good reaction video! I think you’ve fallen into what I call, “viewer bias” a bit when you say to just bring in a priest / exorcist early. Although, you didn’t fall very hard into it, certainly not as hard as some reactors, (i.e. call in the priest as soon as the Ouija Board is brought out). Viewer bias, especially for this movie, is when everybody knows the movie is titled, “The Exorcist”. So the characters should go to that immediately. And after every occurrence of “off” behavior from Regan. Back in 1973, there was little knowledge of exorcism or the possession of people by malevolent spirits / demons / devils. So the characters followed the normal progression, physicians, specialists, psychologist (hypnotists), and then, finally, because the doctors suggested it, the church for an exorcism. Most people don’t catch Regan was put on Ritalin. Then, the night Burke died, Sharon went out to refill Regan’s prescription for THORAZINE. Also, something ALL reactors seem to do is go, “Uh Oh!” when the Ouija Board is brought out. Viewer bias, again. At this time, there were no movies (horror or otherwise) about or highlighting Ouija Boards as “contacting evil spirits”, etc. At the time, Ouija Boards were sold in the games section of toy stores. “The Exorcist” is the movie that took it from a party game into the realm of the occult. And yeah, medical testing has come a LONG way since then. A couple of interesting tidbits: Jason Miller (Father Karras) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“That Championship Season”). “The Exorcist” was his first screen role. And was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor for his role in “The Exorcist”. Linda Blair (Regan McNeil) was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Ellen Burstyn (Chris McNeil) was nominated for Best Actress. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture (the first horror film to be nominated) and William Freidkin for Best Director. Max Von Sydow (Father Merrin) was only 44 when he filmed the role. There is an actual supposed serial killer in the movie. In the scene where Regan is undergoing the medical procedure to get pictures of her brain, the guy with the beard (not the mustachioed doctor - an actual neurosurgeon) helping Regan onto the procedure table was convicted for the murder of a film critic and bragged he had killed six men from homosexual bars (Paul Bateson).

The part that got audiences getting sick in the theater was not the crucifix scene or the vomiting scene. It was the part where they are doing the test on Regan. When the blood squirted out onto her gown. Because all those happened quickly, that scene the camera lingered on that shot.

Fun facts. For the film, they actually ran a real scan of the actress, so the blood and injections were real. So was the technician, who was later discovered to be a real life serial killer.

I was more grossed out than scared - and I saw this in the theater when I was a teenager.

Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing. It lost 7 Oscars including Best Picture to The Sting, Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Haven't even watched this yet and I'm so happy to see her lose her mind!!!

This is my favourite episode so far , you guys are great keep up the good work

Yep, Exorcist III is the next one to go to. Excellent script, sound edit, and direction! Also George C Scott, great overall cast!

To show the breath of the actors the production kept the bedroom set freezing cold at below zero temperatures.

If I remember correctly Linda Blair wasn’t as mentally traumatized by playing Reagan instead being physically traumatized. I recall they walked her through the whole thing as to make her used to the scary stuff, gore effects, makeup effects etc but when it came to the scene where she was flopping around in the bed and she was violently sitting up and laying down over and over again the board used to do so was so violently jerked up and down that it fractured her spine.

I’ll never forget when I saw this movie. I was 14 and the most disturbing part, to me, was after doing what she did with that crucifix she then puts her mother’s face down there. I was so grossed out I couldn’t eat anything red for months lol. 🤢🤢🤢

This is my all time favorite horror movie and in my top 5 all time movie list. It’s just outstanding filmmaking, writing, and acting. Also my name is Maren and it just kills me when Father Merrin walks into the house and the devil screams “MERRIN!”

There is no other scary movie that can ever touch this MASTERPIECE!!!

Love when people react to this movie because I get to share this fact. Max von Sydow was only in his 40s when he played Father Merrin. The makeup in this film was done by legendary makeup artist Dick Smith and he used his own method of old age makeup to create one of the greatest old age makeups ever put to film.

Ever have one of those moments when you see an actor in a film, you recognize the face and/or voice, but can't place it? I spent 20 minutes here until i finally realized the detective was one of the jurors in 12 Angry Men.

Absolutely loved watching you guys watching this. I am 60 years old and have seen this film a zillion times - starting when I was 15 and my brother took me to see it. How cool is it that this film still packs the punch. I think she is right about the necklace. Also poor Linda Blair had real life wackos coming up to her after calling the Devils Child. She was not able to go into public for years after. To me the most amazing point about this film is the fact that the Pope Endorsed it and thousands of Christians fled back to church with this film putting the fear of God in them.

Visiting The Exorcist steps in Washington, DC is must for any fan of this film.

After seeing this movie, all current horror movies seem like cartoons to me. This is the only horror movie that I wouldn't want to see alone.

When this first reached theaters, there was an urban legend that everyone who went to see it was doomed to die within seven years. Nonsense, but a bit frightening for the kids.

I met Linda Blair once at a comicon. She was so nice and didnt vomit pea soup on me even once!

Much of the horrific stuff in this film happens offscreen. We don’t see Mrs. Karras die, we’re told about it after the fact. Same with Burke’s death. And with Fr. Merrin, we only see the aftermath. Karras is the only character who dies on screen.

9:48 He didn't do it spontaneously in real time, but I did. So you got a "bless you" all the way from England😂. As always a great reaction, guys😁👍

"is that your only take away from that..." Lmao

One of my favorite movies ever since I was a kid in the 80’s. I’ve watched about 50 reaction videos to it. Out of them all, nobody realized that when she says “ you’re gonna die up there “, she was talking to the astronaut that was at the party.

Good luck to the Mrs getting over this one, not too many people can.

Good morning from Australia. Another awesome reaction.

Apparently Linda Blair is one of the nicest people that you could ever meet. Two of my friends met her at a Horror convention and they said she was so charming to talk too...

He is not the only doctor that doesn't listen to their patients. Believe me.

If you want a truly scary movie, I recommend "The Changeling (1980)" starring George C. Scott. A true haunted house chiller!

What a excellent day for a exorcism

Sal Mineo was an American actor most famous for his role in Rebel Without a Cause , he was also bisexual, and was stabbed to death by a robber at age 37 in 1976.

Good review!! I was 10 years old when first saw this movie in the theaters. Can still remember the audiences reaction: people screaming; popcorn flying through the air; people suddenly praying out loud; people running for the exits; people actually barfing (do remember that barf-bags were offered to people upon entry to the theater). This is one of those movies that I can still remember audiences reactions when first watching them: Jaws, Poltergeist, The Omen, Halloween just to name a few. Also the actress Ellen Burstyn actually injure her back filming this movie - it was the bedroom scene where her daughter smacks her across the room, and goes flying and lands on the floor. Her reaction is genuine pain.

The director, William Friedkin, was a mad man, he put the cast through "hell". Both Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn suffered serious back injuries, both incidents can be seen in the final cut. There's also a scene where Karras reacts in terror, I think it's when he's listening to the recording of Regan, to get that reaction Friedkin fired a gun without informing the actor Jason Miller what he was planning to do, Miller was furious. And in the scene when Father Dyer is giving Karras the last rights you see Dyer shaking and emotional, that was real. The actor playing Father Dyer was not a trained actor, he was an actual priest, they'd done a lot of takes and it was late, he was tired and Friedkin was not happy with his acting, so just before the take that went into the final cut, Friedkin slapped him. Directors back in the day did stuff that I seriously doubt would fly nowadays, like Kubrick with Shelley Duvall on The Shining and Coppola with Martin Sheen on Apocalypse Now. Exorcist 3 is really creepy, to me it's more cerebral, not as intense for the most part but a worthy sequel for sure. Another very well done movie like this is The Exorcism of Emily Rose, some might argue it's even better but I think that's mostly because it's more modern, definitely worth a watch though, as far as horror movies go.

Recommend "Repossessed" starring Linda Blair as the one who is possessed and Leslie Neilson as the Priest. Good comedic parody of The Exorcist.

'The Mrs' look of horror on her face is priceless :D

You guys are young! I saw this in the theater in Dec 1973, before it became a cultural phenomenon. My college roommate said it was “scary.” SCARY?? I almost died of fright! I spent most of the movie cowering in my seat, and slept with the lights on for two weeks.