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Pazuzu first appeared in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist in 1971. [1] The novel is about a 12-year-old girl, Regan MacNeil, possessed by a demon.The demon is later revealed to be Pazuzu; though never explicitly stated to be the demon, two references were made about his statue, which was uncovered in the prologue by Father Lankester Merrin in northern Iraq.
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.
The prologue for Scary Movie 2 was a short parody of several scenes from the original film. In 1987, Warner Bros. released an animated short starring Daffy Duck titled "The Duxorcist", which was a parody of The Exorcist, in which a group of spirits possess a female duck. Daffy does eventually succeed in getting them out of the female character.
The 21st century so far has given us scary movies with an artful bent, such as "Get Out" and "Hereditary." ... theme and possessed girl a la "The Exorcist," mining a couple of the Warrens' real ...
The newest Exorcist movie stars Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum and, reprising her role from the 1973 original Exorcist movie, Ellen Burstyn.
The Pope's Exorcist grossed $20 million in the United States and Canada, and $57 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $77 million. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the United States and Canada, The Pope's Exorcist was released alongside Renfield , Mafia Mamma , Sweetwater , and Suzume , and was projected to gross between $4–10 million from ...
Friedkin and Ellen Burstyn addressed one of the movie's most controversial scenes in 2018. 'The Exorcist': The real-life horror stories behind the making of William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic ...
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 an older brother named Jamie but he died at the age of 3 because of an infection that wouldn't go ...