{"id":3225,"date":"2026-09-19T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:44:46","slug":"people-faintig-at-screenings-of-the-exorcist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"People fainting at screenings of The Exorcist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3226\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Exorcist-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Exorcist-poster.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Exorcist-poster-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Exorcist-poster-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Exorcist-poster-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3230\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Friedkin.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Friedkin.webp 1200w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Friedkin-300x267.webp 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Friedkin-1024x912.webp 1024w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Friedkin-768x684.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> William &#8220;Hurricane Billy&#8221; Friedkin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bud-smith-obit.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bud-smith-obit.webp 1000w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bud-smith-obit-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bud-smith-obit-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> The Late, great, Bud Smith, Editor Extraordinaire!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3227\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jack-N.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jack-N.webp 700w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jack-N-247x300.webp 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0Jack &#8220;Specs&#8221; Nitzsche<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a news report from back when <em>The Exorcist<\/em> was released. It shows the extreme reactions of theater goers to the film. It was a kind of Mania! Two of my friends worked on this film, Bud Smith was the editor and Jack Nitzsche was the composer, plus he did a lot of custom made sound effects. Thier work added a lot to the overall effect of the movie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People fainting at showings of The Exorcist (1973)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMHbnjVz7uc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;Hurricane Billy&#8221; Friedkin The Late, great, Bud Smith, Editor Extraordinaire! \u00a0 \u00a0Jack &#8220;Specs&#8221; Nitzsche Here&#8217;s a news report from back when The Exorcist was released. It shows the extreme reactions of theater goers to the film. It was a kind of Mania! Two of my friends worked on this film, Bud Smith was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}