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The face of Pazuzu is provided by Eileen Dietz, who also plays Regan during the vomiting, levitation and masturbation scenes. Pazuzu is mostly manifested by a swarm of locusts in Exorcist II: The Heretic, though is also shown possessing the young Regan and a young boy named Kokumo during flashback sequences. While the stand-in for the young ...
Pazuzu is most famous in western popular culture due to the 1971 novel The Exorcist and its 1973 film adaptation The Exorcist. In both instances, Pazuzu is the evil spirit that possesses the young girl Regan MacNeil. [35]
Regan MacNeil is a 12-year-old girl and the daughter of actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn).Regan is caught between her mother's grueling working schedule and the fact that her parents are in the process of an acrimonious divorce (her father is in Europe and is not seen in the film), and she has a older brother named Jamie but he died at the age of 3 because of an infection that wouldn't go ...
The Exorcist has a reputation as a “cursed film,” so much so that it was the subject of the first episode of Shudder’s docuseries of the same name. The trouble started on set, where Burstyn ...
Her portrayal in the play led to an invitation to do a screen test for The Exorcist. She was cast in two memorable roles in the film: Pazuzu the demon (better known as the face of death), and the 'possessed Regan' (the Linda Blair character) in some scenes. She performed in scenes that were too violent or disturbing for Blair to perform ...
In fact, when Friedkin released an actual exorcism-themed documentary, The Devil and Father Amorth, in 2018, it notably bore very little resemblance to the green vomit-spitting, spider-walking ...
The Exorcist is a 1971 novel by American writer William Peter Blatty.It was adapted into the 1973 film of the same name.The book details the demonic possession of twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon.
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.