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Was 'The Exorcist' actually cursed??
We offen see movies.... some are romantic,thriller,horror or comedy.....
How many movies have given you shivers up your spine or left an impact......well I guess they are many...... But how many movies have you seen which are actually cursed or had actual Paranormal Activity going on.......Not many it seemes......
One such movie was the iconic Film
'The Exorcist'.
Real people died during the making of The Exorcist, and for many years the film was said to be dangerous, even to viewers. The question is, was it all marketing tactic, coincidence, or something more?
The filming of THE EXORCIST was done over a nine-month period. The main set, was built in a warehouse in New York. During the filming, a number of curious incidents and accidents took place on the set and plagued those involved with the production. In addition, the budget of the film rose from $5 million to more than twice that amount. Obviously, any film production that lasts for more than a month or so will see its share of accidents and mishaps. isn't it?? but THE EXORCIST seems to have been particularly affected by unforeseeable calamities. Coincidence? Perhaps, but it left the cast and crew shaken.
The first incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. one Sunday morning when a fire broke out on the set. The fire was the result of a bad electric circuit, but it shut down filming for six weeks while the set was constructed again from scratch. However, the fact that Regan’s room where the exorcism was performed,was unharmed by the fire is still pretty creepy. Ironically, as soon as the new set was ready, the sprinkler system broke down, causing an additional two-week delay.
Well this unexpected delayed isn't something that is strange, but the future events are.....
Few of the actors in the film escaped personal troubles during the shoot. Just as Max Von Sydow (Father Merrin) touched down in New York to film his first scenes, his brother died unexpectedly in Sweden. Actors Jack MacGowran, and Vasiliki Maliaros both died while the film was in post-production. What makes their deaths strange is that their characters died in the film as well.
Yes, just one week before the movie was about to be released!!!! isn't it strange?? Jason Miller (Father Karras) young son, Jordan, was struck down on an empty beach by a motorcyclist who appeared out of nowhere. Ellen Burstyn (Chris McNeill) wrenched her back badly during one scene when she was slapped by the possessed girl. The stunt went badly....Her blood-curdling scream she lets out during the scene were actually real......
Isn't it strange that so many factors were responsible for the delay....
In New York, one of the carpenters accidentally cut off his thumb on the set and one of the lighting technicians lost a toe. The location trip to Iraq when the hottest part of the summer, when the temperature rose to 130 degrees and higher Out of eighteen-man crew that was sent there, they lost the services of nine of them, at one time or another
Yes, 9 out of 18....and this obviously delayed the making of the film......
"I don't know if it was a jinx, really," actress Ellen Burstyn later said. "But there were some really strange goings-on during the making of the film. We were dealing with some really heavy material and you don't fool around with that kind of material without it manifesting in some way. There were many deaths on the film. Linda's grandfather died, the assistant cameraman's wife had a baby that died, the man who refrigerated the set died, the janitor who took care of the building was shot and killed … I think overall there were nine deaths during the course of the film, which is an incredible amount… it was scary."
These were the words which came from an actor.... and her words clearly states that she was scared.....The material she is talking about dosen't seem human like.....
Things got so bad that William Friedkin took some drastic measures. Father Thomas Bermingham, S.J., was hired as a technical advisor for the film. Friedkin came to Bermingham and asked him to exorcize the set. The priest was unable to perform an actual exorcism, but he did give a solemn blessing in a ceremony that was attended by everyone then on the set. "Nothing else happened on the set after the blessing,” Bermingham stated, "but around that time, there was a fire in the Jesuit residence set in Georgetown."
And while nothing else tragic occurred on the set, strange events and odd coincidences were reported during the post-production work on the film. "There were strange images and visions that showed up on film that were never planned," Friedkin later claimed. "There are double exposures in the little girl's face at the end of one reel that are unbelievable."
So, many of the effects which we saw in the movie were unexpected even for directors.....
In 1987, actress Mercedes McCambridge, who played the demonic voice of pazuru, her son murdered his wife and children before taking his own life.
The film opened on December 26, 1973 to massive crowds. Within weeks of the first public screenings of the film, audience members were fainting and vomiting in the theaters also disturbing nightmares and reportedly, a number of theater staff had to be placed under a doctor’s care, or quit their jobs, after experiencing successive showings of the movie. In numerous cities that were checked after THE EXORCIST had run for several weeks, reporters found that every major hospital had been forced to deal with patients, after seeing the film, severe cases of vomiting and hallucinations. There were also reports of people being carried out of theaters in stretchers.
The most controversial rumer of all -that actual demonic voices recorded during an exorcism were mixed into the soundtrack. Friedkin did admit that he was in the possession on a "cassette recording of an actual exorcism performed in Rome. It's in Italian. It involves the exorcism of a 14-year-old boy. I got the tape through the Jesuit Provincial of New York and on the tape are the sounds produced by this young man supposedly possessed."
so the voices in the movie could actually be real..... that's crepy!!!
While Friedkin never claims to have used the sounds in the film, he does claim that he emulated them on the soundtrack for the demon. It has been this rumor that has provoked angry claims that THE EXORCIST is somehow dangerous or evil.
THE EXORCIST is based off a real life event. William Peter Blatty wrote his 1971 novel of the same name based on the real life exorcism of a boy known through the pseudonym as Roland Doe. Catholic Priesy,performed the real life exorcism, but had to stop when the boy managed to get free from his restraints, pull a bed spring out of his mattress, and slash one of the priest’s arms. When Blatty wrote the novel, Roland’s family requested the character be changed to a girl in order to protect the boy’s identity.
The fact that this movie was based upon an true incident makes the movie even more scarier. The movie was linked to more than 9 deaths with incidents like fire, accidents, even murders!!
We can admit that there was something wrong with the film.....Nevertheless, the movie was a blockbuster in the theatres.... it was the highest grossing film of all times until the movie 'IT' was made...... indeed it was an iconic Film and it still gives me shivers down my spine when I watch it......
Do let me know what do you think about this??
was the movie really curced or were the incidents just a chain of coincidences.....
How many movies have given you shivers up your spine or left an impact......well I guess they are many...... But how many movies have you seen which are actually cursed or had actual Paranormal Activity going on.......Not many it seemes......
One such movie was the iconic Film
'The Exorcist'.
Real people died during the making of The Exorcist, and for many years the film was said to be dangerous, even to viewers. The question is, was it all marketing tactic, coincidence, or something more?
The filming of THE EXORCIST was done over a nine-month period. The main set, was built in a warehouse in New York. During the filming, a number of curious incidents and accidents took place on the set and plagued those involved with the production. In addition, the budget of the film rose from $5 million to more than twice that amount. Obviously, any film production that lasts for more than a month or so will see its share of accidents and mishaps. isn't it?? but THE EXORCIST seems to have been particularly affected by unforeseeable calamities. Coincidence? Perhaps, but it left the cast and crew shaken.
The first incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. one Sunday morning when a fire broke out on the set. The fire was the result of a bad electric circuit, but it shut down filming for six weeks while the set was constructed again from scratch. However, the fact that Regan’s room where the exorcism was performed,was unharmed by the fire is still pretty creepy. Ironically, as soon as the new set was ready, the sprinkler system broke down, causing an additional two-week delay.
Well this unexpected delayed isn't something that is strange, but the future events are.....
Few of the actors in the film escaped personal troubles during the shoot. Just as Max Von Sydow (Father Merrin) touched down in New York to film his first scenes, his brother died unexpectedly in Sweden. Actors Jack MacGowran, and Vasiliki Maliaros both died while the film was in post-production. What makes their deaths strange is that their characters died in the film as well.
Yes, just one week before the movie was about to be released!!!! isn't it strange?? Jason Miller (Father Karras) young son, Jordan, was struck down on an empty beach by a motorcyclist who appeared out of nowhere. Ellen Burstyn (Chris McNeill) wrenched her back badly during one scene when she was slapped by the possessed girl. The stunt went badly....Her blood-curdling scream she lets out during the scene were actually real......
Isn't it strange that so many factors were responsible for the delay....
In New York, one of the carpenters accidentally cut off his thumb on the set and one of the lighting technicians lost a toe. The location trip to Iraq when the hottest part of the summer, when the temperature rose to 130 degrees and higher Out of eighteen-man crew that was sent there, they lost the services of nine of them, at one time or another
Yes, 9 out of 18....and this obviously delayed the making of the film......
"I don't know if it was a jinx, really," actress Ellen Burstyn later said. "But there were some really strange goings-on during the making of the film. We were dealing with some really heavy material and you don't fool around with that kind of material without it manifesting in some way. There were many deaths on the film. Linda's grandfather died, the assistant cameraman's wife had a baby that died, the man who refrigerated the set died, the janitor who took care of the building was shot and killed … I think overall there were nine deaths during the course of the film, which is an incredible amount… it was scary."
These were the words which came from an actor.... and her words clearly states that she was scared.....The material she is talking about dosen't seem human like.....
Things got so bad that William Friedkin took some drastic measures. Father Thomas Bermingham, S.J., was hired as a technical advisor for the film. Friedkin came to Bermingham and asked him to exorcize the set. The priest was unable to perform an actual exorcism, but he did give a solemn blessing in a ceremony that was attended by everyone then on the set. "Nothing else happened on the set after the blessing,” Bermingham stated, "but around that time, there was a fire in the Jesuit residence set in Georgetown."
And while nothing else tragic occurred on the set, strange events and odd coincidences were reported during the post-production work on the film. "There were strange images and visions that showed up on film that were never planned," Friedkin later claimed. "There are double exposures in the little girl's face at the end of one reel that are unbelievable."
So, many of the effects which we saw in the movie were unexpected even for directors.....
In 1987, actress Mercedes McCambridge, who played the demonic voice of pazuru, her son murdered his wife and children before taking his own life.
The film opened on December 26, 1973 to massive crowds. Within weeks of the first public screenings of the film, audience members were fainting and vomiting in the theaters also disturbing nightmares and reportedly, a number of theater staff had to be placed under a doctor’s care, or quit their jobs, after experiencing successive showings of the movie. In numerous cities that were checked after THE EXORCIST had run for several weeks, reporters found that every major hospital had been forced to deal with patients, after seeing the film, severe cases of vomiting and hallucinations. There were also reports of people being carried out of theaters in stretchers.
The most controversial rumer of all -that actual demonic voices recorded during an exorcism were mixed into the soundtrack. Friedkin did admit that he was in the possession on a "cassette recording of an actual exorcism performed in Rome. It's in Italian. It involves the exorcism of a 14-year-old boy. I got the tape through the Jesuit Provincial of New York and on the tape are the sounds produced by this young man supposedly possessed."
so the voices in the movie could actually be real..... that's crepy!!!
While Friedkin never claims to have used the sounds in the film, he does claim that he emulated them on the soundtrack for the demon. It has been this rumor that has provoked angry claims that THE EXORCIST is somehow dangerous or evil.
THE EXORCIST is based off a real life event. William Peter Blatty wrote his 1971 novel of the same name based on the real life exorcism of a boy known through the pseudonym as Roland Doe. Catholic Priesy,performed the real life exorcism, but had to stop when the boy managed to get free from his restraints, pull a bed spring out of his mattress, and slash one of the priest’s arms. When Blatty wrote the novel, Roland’s family requested the character be changed to a girl in order to protect the boy’s identity.
The fact that this movie was based upon an true incident makes the movie even more scarier. The movie was linked to more than 9 deaths with incidents like fire, accidents, even murders!!
We can admit that there was something wrong with the film.....Nevertheless, the movie was a blockbuster in the theatres.... it was the highest grossing film of all times until the movie 'IT' was made...... indeed it was an iconic Film and it still gives me shivers down my spine when I watch it......
Do let me know what do you think about this??
was the movie really curced or were the incidents just a chain of coincidences.....
