THE EXORCIST! Rare Outtakes and Deleted footage! -- Commentary. 

PLEASE READ before commenting... Hey gang, so I've had a bunch of idiotic and disrespectful comments from people saying that all of this stuff has been available for years and is on the DVD/Blu-Ray releases OR is on RU-vid. Let me make this clear, not ALL of this is new. I know that, and do make a point of saying that in the video. However, the multiple FULL takes of the Washington trip and FULL alternate takes of other sequences have NOT been released on any home media version of THE EXORCIST since the first snapcase in 1997. Believe me, I have EVERY version of this film released. You get snippets of the Washington sequence in both the Fear of God documentary and The Different Versions of The Exorcist featurette, but full unedited takes have never bee put out there. The Karras/Merrin alternate takes - only two were included on previous releases - including the one where William Friedkin yells. The Kinderman and Dyer ending. The last piece where the dialogue is played WAS on the 1998 DVD and ever subsequent release, but the two alternate two shot takes of them talking without sound was not. I added the version with sound so that those who maybe don't have the DVD can hear the dialogue I was talking about in the commentary. The same goes for the Eileen Dietz makeup test. It's never been included on ANY release. To say to me that it has been out there for years is just ludicrous. There is a brief glimpse in the opening credits of Fear of God, and a brief shot of the clapper board in front of Dietz's face in the Raising Hell featurette. That is it. I've been obsessed with this film since 1998. I know what's been put out there and what hasn't, so telling me that I'm wrong or that I should be ashamed for saying this is new stuff - I wouldn't have posted this video if I didn't KNOW I had some footage that was significant, and didn't have to post it at all. I posted it because I wanted to share the stuff that I know isn't out there. As for how I 'suddenly woke up and had all this footage', I posted an Exorcist related video over a month ago on my other RU-vid channel. A day after posting it there was a comment in my 'Approve before posting' tab. It was a megaupload link with a comment saying "This may interest you." I downloaded it. Saw what it was and went back to ask the user where they got it from. By the time I got back the comment had been deleted. It's since been brought to my attention that someone uploaded all this stuff to a torrent site around the same time, which is a good explanation for how the person who sent me the link could have obtained it. Having shown snippets to Mark Kermode, he thinks its possible that given the 4:3 ratio and VHS quality, that these have been ripped from a tape that was used in the production of his documentary back in 1998. So when I say 'I don't know how I have this footage' it's purely from the shock of being sent it in the first place and not knowing who or why it was sent to me. The majority of your comments have been absolutely lovely, and I'm glad that you're enjoying the video. I want this to be a place for positive and engaging interaction. I have ZERO patience for disrespectful comments or negativity for the sake of being negative, and those who do post negative comments will immediately be silenced from the channel with no warning. Let's keep it friendly. x

That kid should of gotten an oscar.she terrified a generation and continues to do so a.remakable film.

the best horror movie in the history of humanity, NO other will ever surpass it.

Man, I love The Exorcist, and seeing these outtakes is like being a gift. Thank you, thank you so much.

What a gift for the 50th Anniversary of The Exorcist. Cheers!

What a goldmine. This film is truly a miracle.

Loving watching this after recently seeing The Exorcist at the cinema for it's 50th anniversary. Looking forward to your next treasures to show us!

If the deleted scenes, especially Regan's Birthday trip were included, Linda Blair would have been seen more as a genuine actress at the time. I think that the normal Regan part of the film was avoided too much. She could have beat Tatum O'Neal as Best Supporting Actress that year.

two weeks after the opening in LA, i was hired at the phoenix az theater, to work as a parapsychologist, to help people that got sick, or freaked out during the movie.... so i had to view the exorcist about 400 times. in every showing, there were nervous giggles after the crucifix scene and such...BUT after the "help me" appeared on megan's stomach, there was no more sounds from the audience. EVER...i called it adrenaline overload. ... a lot of people went into shock, and couldn't respond any further....this movie, back then,.. tore a lot of people's psyche's apart, at least for the duration of the movie......oh, i did help a lot of people who fainted, threw up or freaked out, and had to call for the emts a few times...there has been no other movie to do that to people, not at that level......loved that i got to experience that phenomenon in my life........ also in the book, regan did snake like moves, there was never a spider scene in the book.

That spider walk scares the sh!t outta me! Even that crawl down with the tongue is terrifying!!!! Ive never seen it before!

I LOVE the spiderwalk scene (and highly prefer the blood mouth ending) but you make excellent points that I can't argue with.

Fascinating. Thank you. Yes, Linda Blair deserved her nomination just for all the pre-film work she did.

What treasure trove! Thank you so much for uploading this. The Eileen Dietz footage is nothing short of mesmerizing.

I stood in line in freezing weather in Philadelphia when this movie came out Remember those days / standing in line to see a movie

Thank you so much for sharing these never before seen footages of The Exorcist, I thought I had seen it all and as a big fan of the film I'm so happy to know there are still treasures in the vault!

I met Linda back in 96 at my friend’s house. I swear I was utterly speechless because of the level of fan I am of the film. Of course I got her to sign my Ouija Board.

The spiderwalk fitted perfectly as the devil is showing just what he can do with a perfectly normal child even before taking fully control of herself ..later on her destruction is quite expected in the film ...the spiderwalk took us by surprise utterly creepy.

Wish we had some available outtakes/deleted footage like this for Carrie (1976)! Couldn't help but peep the merch and posters of it at the back.

At 9:10 minutes, there is a nurse taking a test, all the while wearing a fashionable inverted coffee filter on the top of her head. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you look at the other "scary" movies which came out around the same time as this film, the level of mastery isn't even close.

Thanks for this piece of history

So envious that you have that poster advertising The Exorcist on WHV

Jump scare at the end got me

To this day The Exorcist is the level to live up to. Modern effects haven't managed to duplicate the immense terror!

Just shows there's still further content that can be included on future blu rays.

This is absolutely ENTHRALLING! 😍 THANK YOU for sharing! Loved your commentary, too! ❤

Great insight, thanks. Good to have you on RU-vid, remember seeing (and loving) your doc on An American Werewolf in London at Frightfest many years ago so looking forward to more goodies!

The best thing about the 2000 version is the ending with Dyer and Kinderman. I think Kinderman’s sense of humor gives the movie and the novel a great sense of relief.

I have wanted to see that Eileen face footage for most of my life! Thank you for posting this.

What a great video. Thank you for sharing this. I loved seeing these alternate cuts.

Thank you,thank you,thank you.The Exorcist is my favourite film and i have seen some of these outtakes on the exorcist blu ray i have.The majority i haven't seen and they give a great insight to how the film was made,absolutely fascinating.I have subscribed and look forward to more great content from you.Well done on this,its brilliant.

Great stuff! Great movie! Perhaps the best movie of all-time.

Billy yelling, "Shut up in there!" comes directly from him watching Det. Eddie Egan while working on The French Connection. Egan, during the bar raids would yell "Shut up over there!" when bar patrons were whispering, letting them know nothing is getting by the detective. Gene Hackman recreated the line in the movie, and Friedkin found it a useful tool for jarring unsuspecting film crew and keeping control on a set.

The simplicity of this movie was still relatable up to now, every body can relate and the presence is still there, this is only a most descent horror movie ever made along with Exorcism of Emily Rose

Astounding! Amazing footage and excellent presentation. Thank you so much for sharing. Please upload that other half hour!

Thanks for sharing with us! A Pazuzu fan from Montréal 🇨🇦

I’ve watched horror movies since l was a baby my mom would bring me to the theaters in Japan. I’m now in my 60’s. This movie in my opinion is the best horror movie l have ever seen. I have yet to see anything that matches this.

I've watched this upload almost as many times as I've watched the movie! Thanks again. Just superb.

Yes there never be a movie that had so much impact on movie goers one of a kind..

Ohhh my god thank you so much absolutely brilliant to see my number 1 movie and remembering as a 10 year old boy going past the The State Cinema in Kilburn London with real nuns and priests outside the cinema telling the cinema goers they where damned to hell lol now at 59 years old seeing it n all its 4K glory what a pure joy and now these outtakes just can’t be more happier

Thanks for this piece of history my friend! Liked and subscribed ✌

I do have to be honest: once I listened to the Exorcist 40th anniversary edition audiobook, read by Blatty himself I haven't seen the film in the same light again. Compared to the book it seems extemely rushed. Even tho the film is over 2 hours long it feels like it jumps ahead way too fast and doesn't give the viewers time to take it all in and breathe before jumping ahead. Also, the film really did Merrin dirty most of all. In the book he is there for nearly a week, and gives lots of insight into who he is. Even when he dies, Pazuzu pleads with Karras and asks him to revive Merrin so he can kill Reagan in front of him and make him lose his faith. In the film I always felt like Merrin was presented as this overpowered superhuman who just came there to die. All that build up and meh.

subbed for your upcoming on AWIL thats one of my fav films and looking fwd to that vid.

Wow. Just found your channel. Thanks a bunch.

To this day, i wonder and get a little creeped at: 1.) the actual circumstances of how Burk Dennings was killed. Did Reagan call him to her room, or did she go downstairs and "get him" then take him back upstairs? 2.) Living and SLEEPING in a house with a person possessed by a demon just a few feet away, separated by walls. The sounds or horrible moaning one might hear. 3.) Was it Reagan who desecrated the church?

Amazing that so much footage still exists! Thank you!

This was AMAZING! Such a great treat!!!! I am so looking forward to what is to come next! :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This was amazing. 🙌🏻❤️

What an amazing find. Thank you for piecing this together and for your commentary.

Thanks for sharing!! Great stuff! The Exorcist is my favorite movie of all time - so I really appreciated these extras.

I watched a clip of a Q&A with Friedkin and Bursten, and he says that when he was interviewing Blair prior to her taking the role, he asked her about the book. She said she'd read it, and when he asked her about some of the bad things that happen in the story, she mentioned the masterbation with the crucifix. So it's probably fair to say that she knew what she was supposed to be doing with it during those makeup tests :)

Simply incredible! Looking forward to more from this channel!

Personally, I loved the spider-walk scene, it was so creepy.

This is fantastic! Thank you for this! I look forward to seeing your next videos, especially American Werewolf In London!

This is what RU-vid is for. Thank you for making this video.

Just found your channel, very glad I did! Wonderful commentary on a lot of treasure!

The original cut is the classic

That was AWESOME! Thank you for sharing!

This is awesome!

That is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing. I really look forward to watching more videos of yours!

You finally uploaded!! Youre just radiating giddiness ❤ I'm really glad the stair scene with Merrin looking small and defeated in the background made a cut eventually.

Very very good documentary. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this absolutely fantastic

Thank you so much for putting this out! This is great

I kind of get irritated by people who say ":this isn't scary, there's no jump scares". Fear is not just someone jumping out of the bushes, its fear that also comes with dread , anxiety , and vulgar assault on the spectators senses and this film did that.

Thank you so much for this. Amazing.

Great video, and brilliant commentary as well. I just watched all the Exorcist movies up to Believer and its great to get some background footage for the original. Thanks again for uploading this.

You uploading this video proves there is a God. Thank you.

Thank you for this!

Thank you this was really awesome. Well done. As a massive fan I found these outtakes to be very cool. Maybe in time you can put together another one from the footage you obtained showing some bedroom possession scenes or even when her bed was shaking 🫨 Peace ✌🏼

Thanks also for telling it straight about at the spider walk. Even if it was executed better than it was, it make no sense coming where it does. You wouldn't witness that and then move to hypnosis as the next step. It's SO much better to give Chris a double concern in the hypnosis scene, which is whether it will reveal anything about Burke's death.

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing! The Exorcist is one of my top 5 favorite horror movies.

Great explanation Mr. Paul Davis, I am an obsessor of the original 1973 movie the exorcist, and have been since I was 12 years old when I saw it, I waited for what seemed like an eternity for some sort of release to TV at that time, which would have had a bunch of commercials, thank GOD for VHS, DVD, BR, and now 4K, I have all of these in those media that were released. I really enjoyed your "unseen outtakes", and the way you explained it. So now this so-called trilogy that david gordon released really ruined the spirit of the movie, it will never be classed as a continuation of the original, because it didn't make any sense. Now the next part is called the deceiver, it will only make sense to the trilogy and have nothing to do with the original exorcist. Great job sir!!

Well done! I agree with you (and Billy Friedkin, ha) about the spider walk staircase sequence - it doesn't belong. Though to me the problem is the lighting. The lighting is so wonderful throughout the film; it is always so clear what the ostensible on-screen light source is within each scene. But on the staircase, I don't know where the light is coming from - seemingly all over. It is too bright in general and just doesn't have the same look as the other interior shots of the home. It looks like a movie set. Though the shots where Blair is poised-to-strike at the foot of the stairs, with the tongue-flicking - too bad they couldn't use that somehow, maybe re-filmed for a different sequence, because it is horrifying. The quickness of the movement is so lizard-like and the way she darts forward like an animal- just uncanny. Superb performance by Blair. Weren't all contact lenses glass or hard acrylic back then? I thought flexible contact lenses only became a thing in the 1980s. IIRC from back then there were still kids whose prescriptions were such that they could only wear the hard lenses.Or were these lenses used for theatrical effects something else?

Hope you go far in life. Thank you so much for this.

Awesome surprise this morning. Well done!

You got me with that last scare at the end you son of a so and so lol

I remember seeing still photos from the sightseeing trip but never actual footage. I am surprised this was never included on the DVD. Or has it been? Either way, this is very cool! Thank you for sharing!

Are these outtakes available without the commentary? I like hearing what happens on set.

Good work finding this gem

1. The lenses Linda wore are called scleral shells. I wore one when I had eye surgery. They are indeed made of acrylic. If they're properly polished, they shouldn't be too uncomfortable. But if she had to wear them for more than a few hours at a time, they could be annoying. If she had to constantly put them in and take them out, that would definitely irritate the eyes even more. 2. I liked the quiet moment by the stairs. It adds a respite from all the intensity in the bedroom. It also helps the audience identify with the priests a bit more and what they are going through. The audience is probably also wondering: "why this girl?" 3. Question: The scene where Linda is crawling down the stairs and flicking her tongue, is that a prosthetic tongue? It seems quite long.

I love this video, Paul. You have a new subscriber! I'll add, there's no reason to risk puting glass contacts in a child's eyes these days. All this could be done to exactly the same level with VFX. It might be a good idea to use some form of more comfortable effect-related contact to help inform the actor, much like costumes do in general, but to then enhance the practical effect to make it look more extreme, as it does here. Again, great video!

The outtakes alone are better than the entire Exorcist: Believer movie

This is great BUT I wish someone would send you all the outtakes from JAWS

Absolutely incredible 🎉

I've read so many conflicting stories about the crucifix scene. Blair has said she didn't know it was a masturbation scene with a crucifix, while Friedkin has said when Blair auditioned, even at 10 years old, had said she had read the book and knew what the character was doing. And another where the masturbation scene was not Linda Blair at all, and it was actually Eileen Dietz, who also played the face of Pazuzu.

Truly excellent footage Thank You 😊 I’m wondering if William Friedkin death has anything to do with this footage suddenly coming to light

This was brilliant!

Great Job. Thanx.

Always heard of the outtakes through the 1980's and was curious, but when sewn into the film and released as The Version You Never Saw, can understand Friedkin's choice and forever a fan of the 1973 theatrical release as it's definitive cut/version.

This is literally unearthing a Goldmine excellent video

This was awesome ! 🤘

What needs to be explored more in discussion and commentary is how the film resonates differently with Christians, especially Catholics vs non believers. They always insisted that this is not a horror film but rather a film about spirituality. But for those of us who do not believe this demon is no more scary to us than Pinhead is in the Hellraiser films. Itr is a much better film obviously. The demon is a fictional character. The real evil in the world is out there in people like Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgeway.

Linda Blair was the technical consultant on Believer for the two girls.

Fantastic stuff Paul!

It's a shame they had to leave a lot of Kinderman's scenes out as he investigated Dennings murder. The best was him following Karl and discovering his daughter-who Willie thought was dead-was still alive and an addict. I understand there was no room for it, but it throws in 'detective story' as yet another amazing aspect of the novel.

Awesome! Thanks you for this

Thanks for sharing.

William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty didn’t taper for years because William Friedkin didn’t add the scene of them on the stairs.

I prefer the melancholic ending of the theatrical cut to Blatty’s preferred addition in the re-release. Dyer and Kinderman bumping into each other and talking about films is just too cutesy for The Exorcist.

thank you so much for this