How does regan get possessed

Pazuzu is depicted as a combination of human and animal with a man's body, head of a lion or dog, eagle talons, two pairs of wings, and a scorpion's tail. He's considered to be an evil spirit, but also drives away other evil spirits. This could explain how, when Regan used the Ouija board , though she communicated with multiple demons, Pazuzu was the one to connect.

Pazuzu, because he drives away other evil spirits and protects humans from plagues and other misfortunes other than the ones he causes. Though The Exorcist initially made it seem like Regan was possessed by Satan himself, it became canon through the book and other films that the demon was Pazuzu the entire time. Jack Wilhelmi is the horror features editor at Screen Rant, and has been with the site since He is a lifelong fan of the horror genre, and loves any excuse to discuss genre-related topics, since none of his friends dare challenge him in horror trivia.

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. And he brought me a lot of actual photos of people to whom that had happened. The truth is, the Swedish actor was only 43 when he made The Exorcist , but was aged to look much older.

For the opening scenes at a desert archaeology dig — which were shot in Mosul, Iraq — the heat soared above degrees, which made the process all the more brutal for the actor. The final demon voice was created without any significant post-production alteration by an Academy Award-winning actress who went to dangerous lengths to create it.

What do you know about me? McCambridge, who died in , told Friedkin she would need to swallow raw eggs to make her voice mucusy, start smoking cigarettes again, and also guzzle booze to get the languid, throaty croak necessary for the demon. That came out of her throat. It was a brutal experience for McCambridge, however.

Ellen Burstyn wrenched her back. He later recovered fully. The film was also the last role for actor Jack MacGowran, who played the alcoholic filmmaker who meets a bad end. He finished the role, but died from the flu before the movie was released. Though it all happened during the making of The Exorcist , Friedkin dismisses any notion the set was actually haunted. Instead, awful things that might have happened during the making of any movie took on a superstitious significance because of the subject matter of this one.

The set is burning to the ground right now as we speak. The set, which was the interior of the home where Regan and her mother lived, was located in an old New York soundstage. Though the reason for the fire was never certain, Friedkin believes the cause had claws, wings, and a foul odor….

Production was shut down for two months. A costly delay, although hardly the worst the devil has ever done. The truth is, he used the sound of bees in some early sequences, which triggers an innate fear response in most people.

That face, pictured above, was never meant to be fully detected by the audience. But as things grow more intense, and downright supernatural, the threat of demonic possession rears its ugly head. Enter a priest, played by Jason Miller. The priest is skeptical at first, and he's even more skeptical when the supposedly possessed girl claims she's possessed by the Devil himself.

And if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd know it's like saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte. Still, the priest grows more and more convinced of actual possession and the church brings in another priest with experience with these matters. When the film begins, we actually meet that priest, played by Max von Sydow. He's working on an archeological dig in Iraq, and while there he uncovers a sculpture carved to resemble a specific demon. More on that later! The two priests perform an exorcism — one so dangerous and extreme that it costs both of them their lives.

But the little girl is exorcised and she and her mother leave town. Remember that sculpture I mentioned? The one that Max von Sydow uncovered in Iraq? That figurine — and a much larger one von Sydow also encounters — holds the answer to what's really possessing Regan.

The statue is meant to represent Pazuzu, often represented as an imposing figure with the head of a beast, the body of a man, a pair of wings, a scorpion's tail, and, uh In Blatty's book, Pazuzu is name-dropped — but no one ever bothers to say that name in the film. The only names we get are "Captain Howdy," a "spirit" Regan says she contacted with an Ouija board, and the aforementioned moment where Regan claims she's possessed by the Devil himself.