Who is the exorcist demon

We had even started going over 14 and 16 year olds who looked younger, and then one day Linda's mother brought her in to see me, unannounced.

The minute I saw her and talked to her, I knew that she understood the movie and could deal with it. When movies wanted to show actors' breath in a winter scene, they'd film at a place called the Glendale Ice House, where they manufactured gigantic bricks of ice.

The Magnificent Ambersons , Lost Horizon and many other films were shot there. But by the time we made The Exorcist that place was long gone. So what we did was place a gigantic restaurant air conditioner across the top of the set. We also had to set little clip-lights on the floor and on the back of furniture-if you just had the actors talking and didn't highlight their breath with lighting, it wasn't going to show up on film. I decided early on not to do the usual things or give the movie any kind of spooky lights that you typically saw in horror films.

Instead, it all had to transform from something real and from a source. So you can see on the left side of the frame that there's one lamp that's turned off, while the lamp on the other side is on. And of course, we added some as well. My cinematographer, Owen Roizman, was very careful to keep the lighting cold and sort of eerie, but all of it came from a source. The lights were all filtered for night, and it was an interior, and everything is given a kind of realistic foundation.

Most of this scene, with a few exceptions, was shot from Father Karras' Miller's point of view. This angle, in which she's about to spit vomit on Merrin, is pure POV. Over the years, everyone refers to the vomit here as pea soup, but it was really porridge with pea soup coloring-it had a much better texture than pure pea soup. We used a very thin plastic tube that ran from the side of Linda's mouth underneath her nightgown right down to the floor, where a special effects technician was stationed with a jerry-rigged pump and a hand crank.

On cue, she would tilt her head the right way and he would pump the stuff up through the tube and, seemingly, out of her mouth. The consistency of the porridge is what determined the speed at which it would move through the pump. Of course, in each case where you see Linda vomiting there would at first be an accompanying shot of Father Karras, and then Father Merrin, where we pumped it straight at them as a crosscut. Before we started, I prepared Max by informing him what had actually happened during an actual exorcism, including three exorcisms that the Catholic Church recognized as being authentic since We had an expert from the church who had experience with all of this material.

A human cannot, of course, spin her head right round, but evidently a demon can, and what we are witnessing is a demon spinning its head, not a human. By such logic, the head-spinning scene may be regarded as credible at least, credible in the world of a film that posits the possibility of demonic possession.

Rather, we should think of it as a state wherein the human body becomes the malleable clay by which a demonic entity brings itself into physical existence. The lump and the pot are both the same stuff and substance, and yet they are different entities, not least because the pot has qualities such as holding water that the lump of clay does not. Similarly, during possession, human and demon both consist of the same stuff and substance, and yet the demonic manifestation has qualities — such as head-spinning — that the lump of human clay does not.

Your email address will not be published. It wasn't until "The Exorcist II: The Heretic" that Pazuzu was mentioned in the movies properly, as he once again returns to haunt Regan for the sequel. Warner Bros. The demon of The Exorcist is based on fact Warner Bros. He has been published on the independent horror blog Morbidly Beautiful, and has covered major genre film festivals such as Cinepocalypse in Chicago.

He has also served as a judge for the Ax Wound Film Festival. In his free time, he is a devoted dog dad to a high-spirited rescue pup named Peter Quill and enjoys volunteering with various animal rescue organizations. Jack likes to travel and explore dark tourism-related and other various haunted locations.

He enjoys studying psychology, the paranormal, and will watch literally any schlocky B-movie on the planet for a laugh. By Jack Wilhelmi Published Dec 29, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Horror the exorcist.