Exorcist: Most Controversial Film of All Time? | Production Tales From Hell

Anyone who claimed that The Exorcist "glorified Satan" clearly didn't watch the actual movie.

Jane Fonda not wanting the role because she "doesn't believe in magic" is wild to me. Like you're an actor? None of this is real.

Why is it so difficult for movie sets to treat child actors like actual children and not abuse them to the point of lasting physical consequences? They're children! You shouldn't even be treating adult actors like that!

the fact that blair and burstyn both still deal with back pain from this sours the movie a bit for me, particularly with burstyn considering the cause of hers was deliberate on friedkin’s part. i hate when asshole directors taint their movies with their shitty behavior on set

Just wanted to tell the Dead Meat team how much I’ve enjoyed this series and can’t wait for season 2.

Weird esoteric fun fact about pazuzu: in Mesopotamien mythology and religion he was actually a protector of children and a healer of children and people, but he was listed as a demon along with several other deities and spirits in the lesser key of Solomon

Production Tales from Hell has never been a more fitting title. Very nice work.

Fun fact: William Friedkin went on to direct a movie called Cruising that was inspired by Paul Bateson's murders. I honestly find that darkly hilarious.

I've never understood why when people point to a film being cursed when people die during or after production for entirely unrelated reasons. Like... people die. That's a fundamental fact of life. Why does that have to be blamed on a specific production? Not to mention that if this had been any other genre of movie chances are nobody would have deemed it cursed as a result of the deaths, but because it's a horror movie - and a controversial one at that - then people jump to it somehow being the film's fault. So weird.

Saw the Exorcist,the Car , Halloween, and Jaws all the same weekend at 8 ... Scariest weekend ever 💀

"They're coming to get you barbara" - no wait, wrong film 😅

Jason Miller muscled his way into his role is the most badass thing I've ever heard of.

Fun fact, the man who played Father Dyer was an actual Jesuit Catholic priest, Father William O'Malley. He also served as a technical advisor on the religious aspects of the film. He was a teacher at my Highschool in Western NY for many years, before ending up at a different High School where he taught til his death.

The Omen's production was truly from hell I've heard. I hope Omen gets a kill count one day too. The exorcist is a true horror classic. Awesome to hear it's hard production story.

One of my favorite movies of all time and I'm so glad that Chauncey (and, soon, James) is talking about it. A fun personal fact is that I was ONLY seven or eight years old when I bought a second hand comic book and the double page centerfold splash page was the FULL FACE OF POSSESSED REGAN... Lemme just say I didnt sleep properly for one or two weeks after that. 😅

“Exorcism at Tiffany’s” i love that 😭

Not to mention, Denise Nickerson (who played Violet from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) was considered for the role of Regan, but their parents refused to allow her to screen test after reading the screenplay.

Just my two cents; I think putting the Dead Meat logo in thumbnails for future series like this would help immensely bc I can't tell you how many times I've glossed over these videos because they kinda just blended in with everything else in my feed. As a "Dead Meat" series, it should be branded as such, down to the thumbnails.

It hasn't been said enough, this series is so top notch. Don't stop making episodes!

The breathing of the devil in The Exorcist sounds like me a couple times when I had life threatening, raging pneumonia. Cracklin like a fire.