The Big Picture The 180-degree head twist, the projectile vomiting, the bed shaking, the cross — few movies can claim as many permanently traumatizing moments as director William Friedkin’s horror masterpiece The Exorcist. The audiences of Christmas 1973 could never have been prepared for such an explicit, grisly, and unforgiving rampage of the senses mercilessly executed with harrowing realism.
What Is ‘The Exorcist’s Scariest Moment? The scene that always triggers goosebumps and makes me want to lie facedown on the floor happens during Father Karras’s first meeting with the possessed Regan. Compared to earlier scenes in Regan’s bedroom, it’s a shorter exchange and less overtly dramatic, but bursting with intent and scope. Karras, a priest experiencing a crisis of faith, approaches the situation with full-on skepticism.
When this scene occurs, one assumes it’s another innocuous exchange Friedkin included to enhance the mood and show Karras's faltering ideals. Nope. Even the smallest moment in The Exorcist ricochets with hideous significance. Pazuzu changes the wording, but he adapts the stranger's voice and matches his intonations. There's no possible way Regan could have known about this exchange.
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