the Exorcist ( The Exorcist ) is an American horror film carried out by William Friedkin, left in 1973.

Synopsis

Regan McNeil, girl of an actress of television, is an ordinary young lady. Until the day when it starts to behave in a way surprising… until the day when it feels had by the devil.

Data sheet

  • Title: the Exorcist
  • original Title: The Exorcist
  • Realization: William Friedkin
  • Scenario: William Peter Blatty, according to his own novel
  • Production: William Peter Blatty, No5el Marshall and David Salven
  • Production company: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Budget: 10,5 million dollars (7,96 million euros)
  • Music: Steve Boeddeker
  • Photography: Owen Roizman
  • Assembly: Gay Norman, Evan A. Lottman and Bud S. Smith
  • Decorations: Bill Malley
  • Costumes: Joseph Fretwell III
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Kind: Horror, thriller
  • Lasted: 122 minutes/132 minutes (Director' S cut)
  • Comings out date: December 26th 1973 (the United States), September 11th 1974 (France), March 14th 2001 (restored version, France and French-speaking Switzerland), March 21st 2001 (restored version, Belgium)
  • Film prohibited with less than 16 years at the time of its exit in France in 1974 and prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its second exit in 2001.

Distribution

Around film

  • the history of this film is based on actual facts. Indeed, whereas William Peter Blatty is not yet that student it falls on an article reporting a case from exorcism on a boy 14 years in 1949 in the Maryland. It is then put to write on the subject. The book is sold to 13 million specimens only in the United States.

  • the voice of small Regan is that of the actress Mercedes McCambridge, a former alcoholic. For this doubling, it was invested much morally: she went back to drinking and smoking to obtain this very serious voice. In order to return in the character of Regan, she asked to be attached to the chair. She is really tortured mentally and physically.

  • the poster of the film which announces the color came from William Friedkin which took as a starting point a table. He says it itself: “It is possible that certain pictorial movements had an influence on me, but never in a conscious way. The only painting which ever influenced one of my films directly, it is this Magritte: empire of the lights. I knew when I saw this fabric which I was to recreate, for the scene where the priest arrives close to the house of Mac Neil in the Exorcist, the environment which emerged some. I thus chose a house giving on a street enlightened by the same type of reverberator, and I made light the similar scene of manner. I did not copy this table. I was only inspired some for what remains today like one of the most memorable plans of film. ”

Original soundtrack

Distinctions

Saga the Exorcist

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the Exorcist on Internet Movie Database
  • the Exorcist on Mad Movies
  • Critical DevilDead
  • Critical Oh My Gore!

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