Even after 50 years, The Exorcist is still worth watching thanks to the great script and the demanding filming that cost limbs and, tragically, lives. Whether this was due to director William Friedkin’s harsh filming conditions or a cursed set, as others claim, remains a question of belief.
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There are a total of five discs in the high-quality steelbook with the Extended Directors Cut version and the theatrical version in 4K and Blu-ray. There is also a double-sided poster, a bookmark, art cards and a 40-page booklet.
Audiences fainted in droves
People left the cinema screaming a woman in New York suffered a miscarriage and spectators fainted in droves – reports about what happened in the cinema during the performance were overwhelming. Which of these is actually true cannot be clearly clarified. However, they accumulated the most Reports from cinema workers about vomit in the sinks. According to The Post, a reporter reported that people couldn’t even go near the sinks after the performance.
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Injuries and deaths characterized the filming of the horror shocker
The filming wasn’t going well right from the start A fire almost destroyed the entire set. The planned 85 days of filming expanded to 200 and the cost of the film was $4.2 million (today’s value: $21 million) over the planned budget. As can also be read in the Post article, Four crew members lost their lives during production. There was a severed thumb and a toe. Lead actress Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn, who plays her mother, suffered from severe back pain for many years as a result of filming.
Exorcism scene took a month to complete and cost $250,000
Another scene caused Linda Blair to develop an aversion to the cold during the long shoot In the “cold room” she only wore long underwear and a nightgown. Screenwriter William Blatty, who previously wrote the novel of the same name, describes how the room becomes incredibly cold during the exorcism. Cold is represented in the film, among other things, by the fact that you can see the breath.
As cinematographer Owen Roizman explains to American Cinematographer, it was Set recreated in a cold room and cooled down to minus 20 degrees. Zero degrees would have been enough for breathing, but Friedkin wanted the actors to really feel the cold. As the lights warmed up the room, could always can only be shot for three minutes at a time, with five shoots per day, as the director tells the Directors Guild of America. Filming this single exorcism scene cost a whopping $250,000 in today’s money and took a month.
There are many stories surrounding The Exorcist and some have been hyped up for marketing purposes. Nevertheless, there are sad fates behind the filming and an overall very energy- and money-sapping shoot, However, the result has been astonishing for half a century. The Exorcist was ahead of its time and to this day no sequel or prequel comes close to the quality and success of the first film.
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