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* [[Placebo Effect]]: Subverted. Regan screams in pain when Father Karras douses her with tap water, which he claims is holy water. Later, it's implied that Pazuzu intentionally did this to fool Karras into thinking that Regan wasn't really possessed. When he douses her with ''real'' holy water in the exorcism scene, the screams are real.
* [[Playing Gertrude]]: Max Von Sydow was only 44 when he played the elderly Father Merrin.
* [[Potty Failure]]: During the after party, when Father Dyer entertains the remaining guests with his piano playing; Reagan comes down stairs. When Dyer first notices her he gets everyone's attention. She looks at the astronaut Dyer spoke to before, telling him he's gonna die in space. Which shocks the Astronaut and the guests. As things couldn't get more awkard, Regan proceeds to urinate over the carpet where she stands, while the guests look on in shock. Chris ushers her out of the room and apologizes to the astronaut on her behalf.
* [[Recut]]: An extended director's cut of the original film, marketed as "The Version You've Never Seen" and containing several minutes of additional material (including a scene of Blair's character "spider-walking" down a staircase which Friedkin had [[Deleted Scene|deleted]] from the original cut due to technical problems, and which bore no resemblance to the spider walk in the book), was released to theaters in 2000.
** It is generally disregarded by fans and critics. As [[Roger Ebert]] put it in his [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000922/REVIEWS/9220302/1023 review], "'The version you've never seen.' No, and you don't need to, either."
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