The Exorcist Director's Creepy Connection to a Serial Killer* (crazy story) 

My late stepfather was an x-ray tech and he loved horror movies, especially The Exorcist. I remember when it premiered on ABC and us watching the operation scene with blood spurting out of Regan. My mom and I cringed, but he was very interested in the procedure because of how it ultimately saved lives. He described it to us medically and somehow, that calmed us. A great man who was like a second father to me. Thanks for reminding me of him.

The behind the scenes stuff is more terrifying than the actual movie...😱😱😱😱

Having no idea. I once worked in military aviation maintenance in a small mechanical component shop. Our boss was charged then convicted several counts of child abuse late 1990s. Was a very disturbing episode of my career. So glad it's in my distant past. You never really know beforehand.

A leather studded bracket and an earring was the 70s version of grinder.

Wow, I knew about Bateson, but not about his backstory and especially not about the fact that Friedkin actually remembered him and then went to speak to him in prison. great story! And just a quick FYI the artery is pronounced ca-rot-id not car-tiod.

Sorcerer is one of the most underrated movies ever. The tension of that film, whew. Friedkin is a fantastic director.

There are a lot of brushes with dangerous people by celebrities. A member of the Beach Boys came close to giving Charles Manson a record contract. He was a musician!

Friedkin also has two more connections, all Exorcist-related. The Zodiac mentioned the original in one of his letters, and Jeffrey Dahmer was obsessed with Exorcist III. (Yes, I'm aware Blatty directed 3, you're not blowing anyone's minds with the replies... you could almost say it's a sequel to a Friedkin film or something.)

It's true. I saw The Exorcist in a San Francisco theater and the medical scenes made me feel ill. It was almost like watching someone being tortured but on the big screen. There were some heavy movies at the time but Friedkin pushed buttons people didn't know they had. Excellent video. In some ways Bateson was like the alcoholic geek in Nightmare Alley - a guy who had great things going for him and yet he hit the skids, taking at least one other with him.

Man the editing was top notch. Kept me glued to the screen on the Ole Fold 4.

I thought i knew everything about this movie and it's production but this is new to me

"Cruising" is one of at least three films Friedkin made about the 'leaping serial killer' concept. A disincarnate entity that leaps from one human host body to another to continue murdering. Obviously "The Exorcist" was another one. And the third one was "To Live And Die In L.A.".

Great stuff - as an older cinephile, this could be the channel I've been looking for.

Wow, I didn’t know the connection between, the Exorcist and Cruising. Two classics. Thanks.

The timing of the new Exorcist trilogy and Jeffrey Dahmer’s bio-pic on Netflix is really creepy…

Not many ppl are aware of Friedken's movie Rampage which came out in the early 90s about the Vampire of Sacramento, Richard Chase. Very intense and riveting film.

What has the world come to when people haven’t heard of William Friedkin.

This was a very good,put together video.. very interesting,about something I didn't know of

The visuals don't work with the story you're telling. I had to turn the picture off so that I could follow the story you were telling so well.

The revenge against the father and serial killer ideas would be incorporated into Exorcist III/Legion, by no coincidence.

Bateson was a murderer, certainly, but we cannot know from the established facts that he was a serial killer. The subject heading is misleading in this respect. This definitely was a strange story, revealing background to the troubling and unfortunately homophobic 'Cruising' I had never heard. And most vexing of all is how justice for those overlooked and largely forgotten victims has never been served.

Arthur Bell saved lives back then. Anyone living in New York at that time knows this. I liked spotting all the film clips. Well done.

My mom died convinced that the reason my dad unalived himself was because he went and saw this movie. The theme song played on the radio every night and I still get creeped out hearing it to this day 😳

Great director. I loved the French Connection.

I used to pick up the Village Voice faithfully every week just for Arthur Bell's column. When he died he was replaced by Michael Musto, a cigar store Indian compared to his predecessor. On the other hand, he turned out to be the best possible chronicler of the shallow, emptiness of the culture we live in now.

i always liked cruising. i remember pacino tried to distance himself from the film but didn't fully understand why

To say outright that Bateson was a serial killer is inaccurate. It's possible, yeah, but given everything, highly improbable.

The production of the omen and exorcist could literally be a movie in itself

Renegade, I really like what you are doing. You got me to give time to some films and shows I didn't know I should. I really dig the smooth and well paced voice over also.

Yeah, that was pretty creepy.

... *Cruising* had 2 releases on VHS (one was Lorimar, I forget which one that one was). While watching the original VHS release, I noticed a very quick blurry flash precisely when 1) The knife was thrust into the first murder victim, and same for 2) The peep show booth murder. I slo-motioned the tape, and there were 8 frames of an undeniably / openly biracial pornographic clip (the exact same for both incidents). The other VHS release still contained these 2 subliminal subceptions, but they'd been masked. Friedkin's industry nickname is "Fast Willy" because of his consistent use of subliminal subception techniques.

I was just telling some pals about this. Very creepy!

Does anyone know why in one of the clips Bateson looks to be shaking hands with an appendage on the beach?

The video clips in this are hilarious

Since they couldn't pin the other murders on him, is it really fair to call him a serial killer?

Oh so this is what American Horror story new season is based on I had no idea thanks for the knowledge

Well that was a crazy true story.

never heard of him,....he is ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE DIRECTORS....my fave films of his are: Exorcist, French Connection , Cruising, Sorcerer . To Live and Die in LA, CAT Squad(yes loved that one, could have been much better if it had a bigger budget but Friedkin did an excellent job on what he had), Nightcrawlers,

14:34 Not the New York Post😂

_People are strange_ _When you're a stranger_ _Faces look ugly_ _When you're alone_

Wow that's wild.

2:27 "cartoid"?? Oof.

Sorcerer is a masterpiece.

"Cartoid Artery" LMFAO Says it all!

Did you know that ergot is a mold found in wheat and rye which when consumed causes hallucinations and epileptic seizures and the experience may have been the real culprit for the basis of the story of the exorcist?

Cruising was an excellent movie, they don't make them like that any more.

S&M buddy, not SM. Subscribed though learned something new from this

Great story - Good narration - well written - but with that said, outside of the actual video and photos of what you are talking about, please pull back or stop using all those film clips and "bad" stock footage to fill visual space because they are very distracting and really do take away from your narrative. People see the clips and start thinking or even talking about them instead of paying attention to your story. Even if you just showed still photos of backgrounds (relating) to what you are saying would be better. BTW I have "liked" and subscribed.

Friedkin comes across a bit suspect lol

I still contend that Sorcerer would have been a runaway hit if Paramount had looked at the growing hype surrounding Star Wars and delayed the release from June to October.

I wonder, almost everyone on the set of Exorcism was met with BAD LUCK. There are documentaries about negative spirits and bad happenings on the set itself. Some of the actors experienced bad things including death after filming. Bates seem to be normal before the film. I wonder if he experience anything negative spiritually, emotionally, or mentally & not be aware.

Any wonder? This guy gets involved making one of the most violent, disgusting movies which promotes abject dehumanization, then he goes on to commit murders himself? This is one reason why European countries either ban excessively violent movies like the Exorcist, or they require the horrific violence be first edited out.

It's pronounced, "Cah rah tid" artery. Carotid artery.

Lol. A quarter of liter of vodka is not so much actually 😂

Basically Dahmer of NYC

The Exorcist... Paul Bateson the actor who play the medical assistant in the scene where they put the metal needle thing on the little girl neck and blood poor out from the thing... Also Jeffrey Dahmer loved the Exorcist 3, he watched it every nights for a while...

Car-a-toid lol? Isn't carotid pronounced Ka-rot-id? Lmao! One of the creepiest parts of the movie was living pretty close to where part of the film was shot in Georgetown...and I remember driving by the building used. Even though those iconic steps already were gone by then, the ones the priest's thrown down at the end, that place still had a feeling of wrongness to it; things just not quite right about it. But---the absolute creepiest part to me, after having discovered it, accidentally, stumbling upon it, is or are the parts in the movie where you've got to slow the tape down to see it, because it is really quick, blink your eyes and you'll miss it literally. But, the subliminal messaging images inserted into the film, as a sort of cut or transition between scenes, as this/these images don't have anything at all to do with the actual film. Except them being incredibly creepy, I guess... They are of like a demonic figure, that's bathed in shadows, but are also sort of reminiscent of like The Phantom of the Opera without his mask...They wouldn't be much if seen in a film today outright but, it's the fact they were snuck in, and intended to have a subliminally, horrific response from the viewer. Almost, as if this demon figure/character possessed viewers along the ride of cringing while watching Reagan's terrible decline, that leaves her weaker and weaker, then shy away averting our eyes...or, at least, our minds' eyes, as the entity established a strong foothold, strengthening, sapping the girl of her strength, will, and praying ability, preying, both, on her/her family's fear, as well as on what remained of her draining life force. Once that were gone, she either be 100% a demonic force or'd be dead. A terrifying film...lmfao! It does for spiritual warfare what the film JAWS did for the beach and the ocean! Lol! 😆

Has anyone ever pointed out your voice sounds a lot like H John Benjamin's?

Carotid = “car-OT-id”

Maybe it doesn't matter, but I've always had a hard time believing that somebody could make a movie like Cruising and not be closeted.

sound like the true origin of patrick batman , also dose anyone know the name of the movie with al pacino where he is wearing the black lather jacket?

If you can believe Wikipedia, Bateson may still be alive.

From movie the Exorcist is the nurse assisting the doctor. His name is Paul Bateson and he was a serial killer in real life. He murdered and dismembered 18 gay men and was the inspiration for the movie, "Cruising" directed by none other than William Friedkin. PS: As a genzer this movie was giving me vintage gay culture, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Al Pacino is the best catfish

I worked for a while at a place where a serial killer worked before he was caught.

Would it surprise me if a few of the people fainting were ‘studio plants’ which in turn caused mass hysteria, which in turn got the attention of news outlets? I wouldn’t put anything passed studios for publicity.

I am just starting out assisting in these procedures with interventional radiologists It’s very fascinating and totally scary , yet not scary at all today (very controlled setting and micro size catheters and wires)

So the first guy he killed was an important person😯

I take offense to the opening sentence lmao

The author of the book also did all the voice acting in the audiobook. He's really really good at it.

That's Hollywood! Ugh

The part that bothers me most in that movie is where they show those poor women in burqas.

Why did I think that sorcerer was directed by Ridley Scott? Just a fluke or did he have something to do with it oh well maybe bc the duelists came out in 77’ as well

I'm almost positive the reboot Reagan will be a girl of color. 🤣 If I'm wrong I'm wrong but.... Sloppy seconds much.

Occult member he got away with his part

The devil and his minions

Great book. So -so movie. NOT a serial killer.

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The procedure they showed your awake for and have a plastic sheet over your face to protect for infection and it's horrible. The tugging and pulling on your neck vein is like someone's ripping your neck 🤮🤮 Ive had 5 2 in the neck 3 in the arm its truly not nice at all.

Umm, so a "serial killer" is defined as 3 or more murders that fallow a pattern... Not a singular drunken rage murder over rejection, that clearly does not fallow the pattern.

Cartoid artery?

I "EL IT IS!!!" AM MAN OF MANY LIVING ROSES COLLECTED THROUGHOUT MY VERY SPECIAL LIFE, & PEEP SOME OF THA' SIMILARITIES HERE, BUT BEING FRUITY AIN'T ONE OF 'EM FOR ME MASON (VIDMAKER!!)!! SO, MISS ME W/ THAT QUEER COMPARISON, QUEER!!

This man was part of what his friend did

it’s called method acting 💀

So not an 'actual' serial killer?

Jeez, get on with it!

Rest with Jesus, Father Malachi Martin.

Why did they have all these random medical people at a movie shoot anyway.

Sounds like American Psycho...

4:36 you playing clips that have nothing to do with this bloke is really confusing…

I think don’t worry darling is cursed too

"the bag murders" but let's be honest, I bet a lot of other people were calling it something else that ended with ag. Great editing, bro. What a mad story.

I slay you with my words I decapitate your excuses As you crave your powder Returning to your muses Old habits die hard As you stand atoned with your desires And I stand alone So I leave you behind As you choose your path For our love is denied Until you catch me at last I miss you and ache For your arms forsaken I am not always afraid To slay your demon again Something is amiss it wasn’t supposed to be like this As I watch your tender affairs I imagine you stroking her hair You’ve grown without me Leaving me on the island of my needs As if we never met I see Two versions of the same truth One that’s taught And the one I never knew

shtrife it shparked?

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sweet fancy moses....you are so dull

Can we not say BDSM on RU-vid? I keep hearing SM...just a question.

Guy sounds like Trump 😮

"Cartoid" artery... I can't count how many mispronounced words are in amateur u tube videos haha

I blame the film. It corrupted him religiously

Underlooked is not a word. This thing is riddled with such errors. You should seek help with your writing, editing and speaking. But other than that...