[Witch of Endor]

Err, I think I can say that the vomit was not real. Doesn’t look real to me, and that’s a good thing. If it did it would had been even worse!

Forcing a young girl to vomit could be considered torture if not abuse. It would not had been acceptable to do for a film. I’m sure what you read was an urban legend!

[fatherbowdern]

There are several “factual” points in this string, thus far, that are not correct at all. Too many in fact to point them all out. Forget what you’ve read elsewhere. The names and who did what are off base. You’ll find a whole plethora of truth on this website. Just look at the past postings and enjoy finding insightful information. 🙂

[etrigan69]

Mercedes Cambridge smoked cigarettes and chews apple and drinks to get the voice.

I think the cuts with Dietz are pretty obvious. The make up just looks different. I have seen stills where it says “Linda Blair” at the bottom, so maybe it’s not so obvious to everyone.

[fatherbowdern]

Okay, folks, here’s the best editing story yet featuring both William Friedkin and Mercedes McCambridge. These two interviews were commingled at one point in Mark Kermode’s superior behind-the-scenes documentary, The Fear of God: The Making of The Exorcist (a.k.a) The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist.

More than likely, a contractual disagreement came into play which provides the rationale as to why McCambridge was cut from the documentary altogether.

This is the original edit of both Friedkin and McCambridge explaining the story of “the voice behind the demon.”
Located here and another wonderfully edited version is here.

As far as the ending of the vomit scene involving Karras, I think it’s a great finale to show that very brief glimpse of Eileen Dietz because it is so shadowed and so brief. The second round of Dietz vomiting onto the purple stole during the exorcism is naturally Dick Smith’s vomit gadget and is quite powerful in that particular scene.

If you’re looking for an “oddity” in that scene, you can look under the category I created about Bloopers on this site. Again, here’s the post I did about the vomit gadget (and, yes, you can click the photo to enlarge it):

[etrigan69]

Nice FB!!

[7Holy7]

Since I’ve watched The Exorcist many, many times, one scene that kinda stuck out as “ruining” that piece was when regan spews vomit toward Father Karras and then it switches back to Ms.Diaz and her makeup totally does not fit with regans I mean, you can tell it’s a mask of some type and a tube supplying the vomit(or green water more like).

One other thing is, Friedkin talks about how CGI didn’t exists in those days but with that said, the inital vomiting with Linda to me is “real”, I remember reading a article way back when it was originally released talking about how Linda had to eat so many over ripe apples, raw eggs, etc to vomit and did the same when Father Merrin lays his stole on her…that’s not the green water spray Dick Smith used with Edith.

[fatherbowdern]

Thanks, e! 🙂

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