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THE Exorcist movie has sent chills down the spines of fearfulness movie fans ever since the Seventies.
The 1973 scenes, branded the "scariest ever", centred connected possessed 12-year-old kid Regan MacNeil and saw terrified cinemagoers vomiting and fainting erstwhile the flick deed screens.
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Yet the nail-biting plotline, showing Regan play with a Ouija committee to pat into the terrors of the spiritual world, besides prompted series of unfortunate events that happened off-screen.
Several astonishing occurences led to claims that the movie was “cursed” – aft deaths and injuries connected set.
Now we instrumentality a look astatine immoderate of the troubled film's formed - and wherever they are now.
Ellen Burstyn
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Ellen, present 91, played histrion and azygous parent Chris MacNeil who relocated to Washington DC with her daughter.
She was nominated for an Academy Award for her relation arsenic Regan's petrified parent.
Yet during filming, she suffered a spinal wounded portion being hoisted astir connected a harness.
The Michigan-born histrion was near connected crutches for the remainder of the accumulation and recalled the mishap during a 2018 interrogation with The Guardian.
She has since starred successful Requiem For A Dream, Queen Bees and The Exorcist: Believer spin-off.
Linda Blair
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Linda, present 65, played possessed schoolgirl Regan MacNeil.
The histrion won an Academy Award for her perfectly terrifying role, which saw her caput near spinning successful a worrying paranormal infinitesimal and sidesplitting her friends and family.
During filming, she suffered a backmost wounded aft being strapped to a harness which suffered a method malfunction.
In an eerie infinitesimal off-screen, she besides suffered the nonaccomplishment of household members portion the task was being filmed.
Linda past went connected to prima successful movies Savage Streets, Roller Boogie and Born Innocent.
Jack MacGowran
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- Poltergeist (1982): Directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, this supernatural fearfulness movie focuses connected a household whose location is invaded by ghosts who abduct their daughter.
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Jack played the eccentric movie manager Burke Dennings and successful the film, helium was killed by demon-plagued Regan.
His quality was attacked by the possessed child, who utilized her superhuman spot to interruption his cervix and past flung him retired of her chamber window.
Ahead of the film’s release, Jack tragically died from complications related to influenza, which helium caught during the London flu epidemic successful 1973.
Some judge this was a motion of The Exorcist film's "curse."
Vasiliki Maliaros
The histrion played Father Damien Karras’ mother.
She passed distant that aforesaid twelvemonth earlier The Exorcist deed the large screen.
The star, who had nary erstwhile acting acquisition and was formed aft being spotted astatine a restaurant, was ruled to person died from “natural causes” astatine an inquest.
In the film, Vasiliki's quality died aft being admitted to a infirmary and aboriginal haunted the dreams of Father Karras.
Max Von Sydow
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He played antheral of the cloth and paleontologist, Father Merrin, who performed Regan's exorcism.
He died, aged 90, successful 2000 astatine his location successful France.
Yet anterior to his passing, the Swedish-born prima enjoyed a stellar vocation connected screen.
He starred successful much than 200 films, TV and vigor programmes including Shutter Island and the Game of Thrones TV series.
Jason Miller
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Jason played Father Damien Karras, who helped Father Merrin successful Regan's exorcism.
Yet his relation was short-lived, arsenic the demon jumped into his ain assemblage instead, causing him to termination himself.
Since the movie helium starred successful a big of Exorcist spin-offs earlier his death, aged 62, successful 2001.
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