The Exorcist ( FILMING LOCATION VIDEO ) SPIDER WALK THEME SONG EXORCISTA MUSIC

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The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mothers desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests. The film features Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Lee J. Cobb, Jason Miller and Mercedes McCambridge. Both the film and novel took inspiration from a documented exorcism in 1949, performed on a fourteen-year-old boy. The film is one of a cycle of 'demonic child' movies produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Rosemary's Baby and The Omen.

The "Exorcist steps", stone steps at the end of M Street in Georgetown, Washington DC, were padded with 1/2"-thick rubber to film the death of Karras. The stunt man tumbled down the stairs twice. Georgetown University students charged people around $5 each to watch the stunt from the rooftops.

The MacNeil residence interiors were filmed at CECO Studios in Manhattan. The bedroom set had to be refrigerated to capture the authentic icy breath of the actors in the exorcizing scenes, the bedroom scenes along with many other scenes were filmed in the basement of Fordham University in New York. The temperature was brought so low that a thin layer of snow fell onto the set one morning. Linda Blair, who was only in a thin nightgown, says to this day she cannot stand being cold.[9] Exteriors of the MacNeill house were filmed at 36th and Prospect in Washington, using a family home and a false wall to convey the home's thrust toward the steps. In fact, both then and now, a garden sits atop the embankment between the steps and the home.

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  • Please put all your on the set video's on dvd Herve, i fuckin love them!!! What have you got coming up this year?

  • Completing the Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy.

    "Close Encounters" is on my top list.

    yes, "Lethal Weapon" would be fun to do.

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  • In college in the '80s we used to go bar hopping in Georgetown and then run up and down the "Exorcist stairs."

    Father Karras is tossed out a window and rolls down the stairs at the end of the film, but there is no house or structure at the top of those stairs. Either it was torn down after the early '70s or they filmed the window scene at another location -- not sure which.

  • Prospect St NW & 36th St NW Washington D. C.‎ Distrito de Columbia‎ 20007 EEUU

  • what program did you do that??

  • excelente video!! donde esta exactamente la casa? que programa utiliste para editar el vide? gracias por subir este video

  • i was just there a few hours ago. really cool. didn't expect dozens of people using the stairs as a workout place though.

  • fuk u thats bul shit

  • went there today its actually a pretty long way up, But it has changes so much since the movie was filmed. Right by the Exon Station haha.

  • one of the best videos! great work !

  • Some day i'll visit this place :D

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