The Exorcist remains one of the most influential horror movies dealing with an evil spirit invading one's soul.
In a desperate attempt to get the film released internationally, Alfredo Leone convinced a reluctant Mario Bava that they should revamp the entire film as an Exorcist clone, in order to cash in on the popularity of that film, complete with new footage being shot of an exorcism involving Elke Sommer and Robert Alda, who was cast as a priest in the new footage.
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These CDs were, in the early days, whimsically titled using punning references to various movies but with a coding twist; for example, "The Hexorcist" (The Exorcist), "Lord of the Files" (Lord of the Flies), "Gorillas in the Disc" (Gorillas in the Mist), etc.
The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining.
For The Exorcist, William Friedkin rejected a score by Lalo Schiffrin and used the temp track featuring assorted pieces of music including part of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
The sample in "Where is Your God Now" is taken from the Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ and from William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
The other films so far selected from films produced in 1973 are: American Graffiti, Badlands, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Frank Film, Mean Streets and The Sting.
Four films that were originally refused a certificate, The Exorcist, Straw Dogs, The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were granted a certificate in the late 1990s and have subsequently been screened on mainstream television.
Robert Gerringer also appeared in the movie The Exorcist and in other soap operas including The Guiding Light, Texas, in which he played Houston attorney Striker Bellman; and The Edge of Night.
The film marked starlet Linda Blair's third leading role in a horror film, following her Oscar-nominated performance in The Exorcist and its sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic.
The films that David Gilmour watches with his son includes Citizen Kane, Showgirls, Pulp Fiction, Last Tango in Paris, The 400 Blows, Ran, Singin' in the Rain, The Exorcist and Basic Instinct.
In 1967 they starred in a pilot for their own series that was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso of The Monkees, and directed by William Friedkin of The French Connection and The Exorcist.
The Exorcist order was suppressed during the reforms of the minor orders after the Second Vatican Council by Paul VI.
She also appeared in critic Mark Kermode's 1998 BBC documentary "The Fear of God" (which Kermode directed and hosted), included as a special feature on the DVD of The Exorcist.