FIRST TIME WATCHING: THE EXORCIST!!! (NATMARES) 

My new RU-vid obsession is watching people watch THE EXORCIST for the first time. 😂

Fun fact about the makeup: even though Linda Blair's makeup gets most of the attention, the makeup job on Max von Sydow is AMAZING. He's only 44 years old, yet the makeup made him look 30-40 years older.

I met Linda Blair a few years ago, and got her to autograph my blu-ray of The Exorcist. She's really lovely. She now runs her own animal shelter.

The fact that they refrigerated the room for the exorcism scene not only adds so much atmosphere, it also helps sell the 360 head spin. They pumped warm air through the dummy's mouth so it looks like it's breathing. Such a simple but effective touch.

I've been an archaeologist for 30 years. There's a whole lot less Nazi fighting and unleashing of ancient horrors than I was led to believe. On the other hand, there are guys who compete to see who can go the longest without bathing, which is arguably worse.

Nat, if you think watching Linda Blair's head spin around was disturbing, be very thankful you didn't watch the director's cut edition that includes the infamous "spiderwalk" scene. Of course, watching you react to that would have been ...... for lack of a better term ..... gold !!! hehe

You know the fascinating thing about this film is the slow build. If you skip straight to the exorcism it's not scary at all, just interesting from a technical standpoint, but if you watch it from the beginning it's scary AF. The tension builds and builds with no release til the very end... They really knew what they were doing, and the fact that there was very little music and most of the effects were practical just makes it all the more amazing. A true masterpiece of horror. Props to you for getting through this! I first saw it as a kid on video and watched it after my parents went to bed. Never again. 😭

this movie is 47 years old and it's still disturbing af.

Fun fact, Max von Sydow was only 44 years old when they made this, but looks significantly older because he's wearing old man makeup. They did such a good job though that if you see movies of him made 30 or 40 years later, he looks exactly like he does in this movie. Also RIP, he just died in March of this year.

Legit thinks her house is haunted. Is going to watch The Exorcist. Yea, this is gonna end well lol

If you want a light hearted, funny horror movie, I recommend "Army of Darkness" with Bruce Campbell. A very funny, quotable lil romp.

the creepy part was when the detective saw regans shadow by her window moving freely when she was supposed to be tied up.

With the beginning of the film, Father Merrin uncovers the head of a little figurine of the demon Pazuzu, whom he recognized because he had previously exorcised the demon years ago. So then he has a premonition later that another battle with Pazuzu is coming, with the clock randomly stopping and him almost getting ran over by the carriage. So to confirm his suspicions he goes to some old ruins where there is an old statue of Pazuzu and knows for certain when he sees the dogs fighting each other (the dogs of war have been unleashed). The dissolve to Georgetown right after is to show you where this battle between good and evil is going to take place.

The third Exorcist movie, sometimes called Exorcist III or Exorcist Legion, is a pretty decent movie. Takes place some 20 years later and follows the cop and priest that befriend each other at the end of the first. Was based on the book written as a sequel by the guy who wrote the first Exorcist book. Far superior to the second movie, Exorcist Heretic, and the fourth movie/prequel, Exorcist In the Beginning.

Imagine watching this film when you're 12 years old. Yeah. It leaves a dent, for life.

"Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message?" "Yes, mom. Would you get out of there please?"

This was the first horror film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Mmkay, that “no, no, no” segment of editing was the funniest bit of clever editing I’ve seen all year. Thanks for that! Love your content!

Fun fact: Before this movie the Ouija board was considered a kid's toy, and in some cases used to contact spirits, but it didn't have any of the demonic conception it has now and all the "rules" movies tend to use

The Exorcist: Doing for Ouija boards what Jaws did for the beach.

Now you should watch The Exorcist 3. Skip 2.

Back in 1973 my parents had an argument. So as to calm down, my mother decided to go off by herself and watch a movie at the nearest cinema. She had no idea what The Exorcist was about as she sat down to watch it. I guess as the end credits rolled, she may have thought 'At least my problems back home aren't as bad as that girl's.' Great reaction 👏👍.

ash vrs the army of darkness is more of a comedy than a horror flick, but its a fun Halloween tradition. the 2 or 3 movies that came before in the searies are scarier. the first and second movies are basically the same, except the second had a slightly larger budget. You can also jump from the army of darkness movie straight into the ash vrs the evil dead t.v. show which is excellent. Basically, I'm just a sam rami (director) and Bruce Campbell( actor) fanboy. they have done a lot of "B" movies together and they are all wonderfully silly.

I personally find that the special effects and CG that modern filmmakers use can take away from the film. Best example is to compare the original "the thing" to the most recent remake. Practical effects work much better in horror, in my opinion

Fun Fact: The actor who played Father Damien, Jason Miller, is Jason (Lost Boys' Michael Emerson) Patric's father. Bonus fun fact Jason Patric's mother (Linda) was Jackie Gleason's daughter. That is probably some of the most useless bit of trivia, but I was finally able to use it, so yay!! Oh! And another bit of unsolicited trivia: William Peter Blatty (the author of The Exorcist) directed (and I think also wrote)The Ninth Configuration. One of the main characters in it was Captain Billy Cutshaw, who was the astronaut that Linda Blair's Regan told was "Gonna die up there" right before she exorcised her bladder on the carpet. The film also had a character in it by the name of Frankie Reno, who was played by... Jason Miller. Sorry for the wall of text! Thank you for another awesome episode!!

The idea about talking to the dead and giving an opening for evil spirits using ouija boards actually came from this film. Before that Ouija boards were fun parlour games (owned by Waddington games) for family and friends to play around with - and were not associated with contacting the dead, but the subconscious. Fun fact :)

I hope "The Omen" is on your list. And I mean the original, not the recent remake.

One of my favorite things about your movie reactions is your willingness to display your empathy toward the characters. It's what keeps me coming back to your channel!

"I've seen The Exorcist 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!" ~ Beetlejuice Which brings me to my next movie suggestion....

Priceless reactions from Natalie starting here: 14:40.

Has anyone suggested "The Fly" yet? 80's version, obviously.

Guys, guys, guys, the ouija board is a made up board game that was trademarked by Hasbro. It doesn't in fact open doors to the spirit world...

The statue and later demon shadow is an actual ancient Babylonian demon: “PAZUZU”. There were very strange occurrences on set for all 3 movies, too. Finally, this is based on an actual case. Creepy AF!!!!

I've seen a couple reactors not seem to understand the climactic scene, which I find odd as imo it's filmed pretty clearly. Priest begs the demon to take him instead. The demon obliges, possessing the priest. This is shown by a big makeup change on the priest, showing him possessed. He then thru strength and faith re-takes his own body from the demon for long enough to kill himself by throwing himself out the window. This kills him and the demon. Or at least it sends the demon out of the possessing business for the time being.

Three words: Young Frankenstein. OK - math isn’t my strong suit.

My grandma had a VCR in the 80's. This was one of 3 movies she had. Scared the shit out of me at 9yrs old, lol.

The Exorcist is one of the only movies that ever genuinely scared me. It's late at night as I'm writing this and I hesitated on watching your reaction because the movie freaks me out. I'm glad I did, though, great reaction!

Fun fact: Max von Sydow, who plays Father Merrin, was only 43 in the movie. They used revolutionary makeup techniques to make him look 80.

I love how everybody is suddenly reacting to this masterpiece this year. Good reaction.

My high school Jesuit priest teacher was the religious consultant for The Exorcist. He was tall and thin with a severe face, and the Max von Sydow character was based on him.

You should watch THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. It's a completely different type of exorcism movie but just as creepy and chilling.

The unholy trinity of horror book movie adaptions fron this era: The Exorcist, Rosemarie's Baby and The Omen. One down, two more to go... By the way, it is not the devil who is possesing Regan, it is a demon who goes by the name Pazuzu, if I remember correctly. And there is actually sequels to this were more background info gets explained.

If Nat wants a fun movie that stays with the theme of the month, she should do the original (1984) Ghostbusters. It's got some scares but it's not what I would call scary.

"Let the Right One In" is a terrific movie that came out in 2008, I highly recommend it.

For the seventies one of the best. I have seen this film 10 times and still scares the shit out of me. I am now 63 and long may people appreciate good film making. It was the first of its kind and still the best. Live long people and never give up.🤞🤞🤞

We actually talked about Pazuzu (the mesopotamian demon who possesses Regan in the film) in archeology class. Turned out, while his statues are spooky he's actually a nice guy. He was believed to be the king of the wind demons and was summoned to protect pregnant women from his sister Lamashtu. However, some tales do portray him as an evil spirit bringing diseases and locusts (but, to be fair, most mesopotamian gods and demons were assholes). Btw, you can find this exact statue in the Louvre. But it's nowhere near as big as it is in this movie (irl it's only a 15cm statuette)

Nat, don't miss "Pan's Labyrinth" and the latest trilogy of "The Planet of the Apes" (The guy who played Golllum in LOTR plays Caesar in this trilogy).

This is the first movie I remember watching at the cinema when I was 4 years old - talk about my continuing lifelong love affair with the movies!

“How many priests are there in this movie?” Georgetown University is a Jesuit school. So...a lot.

Linda Blair has talked about her role in this film. A lot of the child acting laws weren't yet enacted when this film was made, so they were able to get away with a lot of stuff to make the film. Such as using a walk in freezer for several scenes, which Linda was only wearing a nightgown and underwear during these scenes. She had to stay in the freezer for several long scenes and different takes for the scenes, and many times came close to hypothermia. The early scene where she urinates is also something they had her do, which after various laws were passed would have been illegal to demand a child actress do for a scene.

The Exorcist is a masterpiece.

The Secret of NIMH is lighthearted but kind of spooky in a lot of parts...

"This is why you **never** just play with a Quija board!"

"Nat-mares" Sounds like you're someone from Texas saying the word "Nightmares"

I love when you yelled my name, that was epic! 🤘🏼

Suggested light-hearted "horror" movies... "House" (yes, it's a movie, not the tv series) "Army of Darkness"

Anyone curious about this movie's main theme, it's called "Tubular Bells". Although beautifully written, it is now an iconic and CHILLING orchestral theme to listen to alone or alone in the dark. 😨😰😱

The Exorcist, the movie that killed the most popular board game in America. Yes. At the time this movie was made, the Ouija Board was immensely popular, and the best selling board game in the country. After this movie came out, sales collapsed.

Saw an advertising guy telling a story in a RU-vid video (sorry, can't remember his name). He was working in an office in Brighton at the time this movie was out and everyone was talking about it. One guy in the office was reading the novel it was based on, and the more he got into it, the more he was freaking out, hearing noises in his house at night, imagining that people were following him etc... Eventually, he decided that the book was evil and announced to the whole office that he was going to go and throw it off the pier on his lunch break. So once he'd gone out, our storyteller also went out, to the bookshop round the corner. He bought another copy of The Exorcist, brought it back to the office, ran it under the tap until it was soaked, then put it in the Reader's desk draw. The Reader came back from his mission, declared that he was free of the curse, having thrown the book into the sea, and sat down to get on with his work. A few minutes later, he opened his desk drawer and...

Fun fact: The actor who played Damien is Jason Patric's father.

Mercedes McCambridge , an academy award winning actress, was the voice of the demon. Look it up. She drank booze and smoked cigarettes to prepare for it. And she wasn’t originally credited. Later editions gave her credit.

This movie is unreal, then it gets crazier, then it gets nuts, then years later its fantastic, then you realize how good the filming is. WOW

Highly recommend An American Werewolf in London and of course The Shining!

I recommend Come and See. It’s one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen and it isn’t even technically a horror movie. Or Lilya 4-ever.

Rewatching this reaction, your introduction made me realize that people today regard movies I grew up with in the same light as I viewed movies that were made in the 1930's and 1940's. I always regarded them as "old" and as "classics" ~ and now I realize how that sounded to my grandparents who grew up in the 1920's, 30's and 40's. ~Laughs~ And, of course, I blame my parents for my love of horror movies, because they took me with them to see this movie in the drive-in even though I was just 1-1/2 years old when the movie came out. Funny you mentioned "The Thing" as well, because my parents took me to see that movie when I was 10-1/2 years old. To this day it's the only movie which I literally watched a third of the movie through my fingers as I was covering my face, and I slept on the floor next to my parents' bed for a full week after seeing it. After that, horror movies really didn't scare me all that much. ~Laughs again~ (oh, and by the way, I pretty much saw every horror movie from Halloween onwards in the movie theater when they came out, with my parents, and it was usually me dragging them to the theater to go see them. The only time my mom ever covered my eyes was when a woman's breasts were shown. Figure that one out. Horror and gore, okay; Nudity.... no way!) LMAO Edit: P.S. I'm actually glad you watched the theatrical version, as the stuff which was cut out and added back in with the director's cut, I think, actually detracts a little from the tension and suspense of the film; and I can see why they had originally cut those scenes out of the original. I still enjoy seeing deleted scenes and director's cuts (usually, but not always); but I like when people see the original film that actually made it what it is.

Growing up Catholic, this movie was banned from my house. I watched it for the first time last year and I’m kinda glad I didn’t see it as a kid.

Return of the Living Dead is a balance of comedy and horror.

How can someone go 20-ish years and not know anything about The Exorcist?

That was awesome. Nat, you're awesome. Tyler is one lucky man. Rock on, Natalie!

Who’s out here unliking this video? This woman’s video reactions are ridiculously enjoyable

The piano theme heard in the film is taken from Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", which is an incredibly mature instrumental composition written by him at the age of 17, and on which he plays almost every instrument. It was the first album to be released by Virgin records, and set the company up to produce everything which came after. Richard Branson himself said that there was no question that Virgin now being able to plan space flights would have never happened without that album. Mike said that despite the sales which were probably generated by the use in the film, it was a shame that such a beautiful piece of music was associated with a topic so dark and unpleasant. The full album can be heard at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bv_4sZCLlr0.html

Natalie: “This will make me paranoid in my own house...” Me: No, that’s what “Halloween” is for LOL😂

"I'll never buying a house with an attic like that." What about The Goonies and Christmas Vacation?

If you haven't seen it already you should react to "The Lost Boys." Classic 80's horror.

I saw this movie when I was 14 at the drive in. 4 of us snuck in. In 73 that movie was cutting edge and nothing like it had been seen before. All for of us freaked out. Nightmares for weeks. Damn good time, lol

Just a point of grammatical clarification. An exorcist is a person who performs an exorcism. You kept referring to the act as an exorcist. You have rapidly become one of my favourite reactors and I cannot wait to watch season 2 of the Baby Yoda Show along with you.

Now you have to see Psycho, The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Silence of The Lambs, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street.

This movie is epic! Max von Sydow and Linda Blair are both fantastic!

I've seen a lot of reactions to this film but yours is by far the best. You're into it and it's kind of cute how at 20:45 you yell "Damien" and "Amen" and just lip-synch their exorcism. You really work this through with both priests...🙂

You did a great job watching this movie, which isn't easy to do. Now that you've seen the scariest, watching all others should be a breeze. Great movie, and great reaction video. Keep it up!

Linda Blair did a phenomenal job. Such a great job that it seriously hampered her career. Fimmakers thought audiences wouldn't want to see the "possessed" girl in children's or family films. Such a shame.

the poor actress Linda Blair actually fractured her spine in the seen where she was flipping on the bed with the doctors. The voice for Pazazu is actually a woman Mercedes McCambridge

The demon is called Pazazu/Pazuzu, a demon of air, shadows and trickery.

Lol Dang, to get the full effect wish ya would've watched it in the dark and the directors cut, has a sweet disturbing sceene on the stairs ...great reaction

One of the best parodies of 'The Exorcist' has to be SNL, probably soon after the movie came out. Richard Pryor plays one of the priests. It's incredibly funny! 😆 "The bed is on my foot! - The bed is on my foot! - The bed is on my foot!" 😆

"...at the mercy of natural lighting..." - this disturbs me more than Pazuzu.

This film traumatized me as a kid. For years I couldn't sleep without covering myself completely with the blanket and it had to be completely sealed because I was afraid of letting the devil in to possess me

fare Natalie Gold i never belived you wuld watch this epicc movie. wery brave of you. thank you probaly one of my favourit movies besides V for Vendetta. thank you for all the hard work and fun you provied

It's okay to cry. Ray Bradbury described this movie as a great love story....

You got to remember too that when this movie came out, many of the people seeing it had never seen an excessively disturbing or gory horror movie at all. Such movies existed, but they were mainly "midnight movies" not seen by a wide audience. Many people went straight from PG-rated "horror" to this. People went to therapy because of this movie.

The scene with the priest giving the last rights at the bottom of the stairs was the director best mate from school and was a real priest and the director did want his mate to be in the movie they did a lot of takes on that scene and he could not get it right and they had one take left the director seid to his best friend do you trust me he seid yes so the director slapped his best friend hard round the face a few seconds before did that take so next time you watch that scene look at his best mates hands shaking as he performs the last rights on his best friend. Love from Karl fox from England xxx

You should do The Omen! The original 70's version, not the remake.

Six minutes and thirty-five seconds in an you nailed it: they're setting this up to make Regan seem as sweet and harmless as possible and her relationship with Mom as so nice for the contrast ;) Linda Blair hasn't been deemed to be very good at acting ... EXCEPT ... when she's possessed ;)

What I think makes this a masterpiece is that By today’s standards it’s more disturbing than scary but by 1973 standards it was considered the most horrifying thing ever in the whole world and it still horrifies audiences till this day Ps: I said “horrifies” because I thought that it was the correct term for it’s disturbing content

She said “I’m never buying a house with an attic like that” Me: crap when I am done this video I have to go up and clean the attic I have just like that

Please say “The Shining” is on your list?

"The Exorcist III", the 'true' sequel to this film, starring George C. Scott and Brad Dourif is very well done . It's directed by William Peter Blatty, the author of the books, and even though not nearly as graphic as this, is quite effective through the direction, writing, and performance of the actors.

Hey Natalie, love your reaction to the Exorcist. It's lightly based on a true story. Lightly based meaning that the possessed child was actually a young boy and not a girl. If you haven't seen The Exorcism of Emily Rose, I highly recommend it. It's another movie based on actual events, hee, hee hee...(DEMONIC LAUGH) enjoy.

As an old guy (71), I saw this movie on its initial release. I was an atheist then as I am today, but it was still plenty scary. But then, I grew up a fan of science fiction monster movies. As with those, I didn't have to believe the premise was real to be affected by its storytelling power. I can only guess how frightening it was and must still be for those who believe in the supernatural. Like how you picked up on several of the film's smaller details. It remains Friedkin's masterpiece. Now watch his Boys in the Band, made just before this one. IMO it's a masterpiece of its own.

Always love your videos, Nat. Just remember: ghosts aren’t real. 😊