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Festival Of Frugality #245 – The Exorcist Edition

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:00 AM PDT

The Last Exorcism is out in theatres and #1 at the box office. While I’m looking forward to seeing it, I can’t help but think that it’s simply an attempt to copy one of my favourite movies, The Exorcist. So for this week’s edition of the Festival of Frugality, here are some trivia bits about The Exorcist that you may not have known!

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Author William Peter Blatty once won $10,000 on the Groucho Marx show “You Bet Your Life” (1950). When Groucho asked what he planned to do with the money, he said he planned to take some time off to “work on a novel.” The Exorcist was the result.

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William Peter Blatty based his novel on a supposedly genuine exorcism from 1949, which was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland, and Bel-Nor, Missouri. Several area newspapers reported on a speech a minister gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a 13-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks.

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There are tales about ominous events surrounding the year-long shoot, including the deaths of nine people associated with the production and stories about a mysterious fire that destroyed the set one weekend.

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Director William Friedkin eventually asked technical advisor Thomas Bermingham to exorcise the set. He refused, saying an exorcism might increase anxiety. Rev. Bermingham wound up visiting the set and gave a blessing and talk to reassure the cast and crew.

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There have been two sequels; Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and The Exorcist III (1990). There are also two prequels; Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

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