Followers are demanding many questions and mysteries surrounding Regan from The Exorcist and past be answered or resolved in The Exorcist: Believer, which is ready for launch later this yr. Regan is an fascinating character, and never an enormous quantity of background is divulged about her within the first two Exorcist movies. However with the up-and-coming sequel approaching, audiences will likely be anticipating some resolutions to the questions surrounding Regan’s character.
Linda Blair stars as Regan MacNeil in solely the primary two Exorcist movies, The Exorcist, and Exorcist 2: The Heretic, however there’s a risk she’s going to return to the sequence in The Exorcist: Believer.The primary movie sees her possessed all through many of the plot, with roughly a 3rd of the movie having her in an strange state having fun with her relationship along with her mom, Chris. Within the second movie she seems to be un-possessed all through nearly all the movie, or so it appears at first look. Regardless, there’s a lot about her character that continues to be a thriller, and there are some questions audiences would love answered within the upcoming reboot, The Exorcist: Believer.
10 How And Why Pazuzu First Focused Regan In The Exorcist?
If the spirit of Pazuzu, king of the wind demons, was unearthed throughout an archeological dig in Iraq, there wanted to be a selected purpose why he would determine to focus on Regan for possession, who was residing all the best way in Washington D.C. Regan used a Ouija board along with her mom in an early a part of The Exorcist, which can have acted as a portal for Pazuzu to enter their dwelling. Nevertheless, there absolutely had been many different folks on this planet at that very same time who had been utilizing a Ouija board, a few of whom could effectively have been primarily based nearer to Iraq, that means much less distance for the demon to journey.
Moreover, there’s the open query of why would the demon goal a younger lady, relatively than a powerful, muscular man, for example, who might have been a extra psychically formidable opponent to any monks who could try to exorcise him later. Regan already talked about her invisible good friend, whom she named Captain Howdy, previous to the Ouija board sport. It’s assumed Captain Howdy is certainly Pazuzu, which suggests he was already an affect on Regan’s life previous to the utilization of the Ouija board.
Pazuzu could have used Father Merrin as a telepathic hyperlink to the opposite monks who had been seen speaking exterior a church in Washington D.C. Regan’s mom is seen strolling previous these monks in one in every of her first appearances within the movie, as she appears solemnly at them for an unknown purpose. Maybe she senses evil round her in that second, which can have been the evil of Pazuzu clinging himself to Regan’s mom to comply with her dwelling. Nevertheless, that is all hypothesis and isn’t in any respect clear how or why Pazuzu managed to affiliate himself with the MacNeil family, one thing audiences could get solutions to in The Exorcist: Believer.
9 Did Pazuzu Select Regan As a result of Of Her Identify?
Apparently sufficient, ‘Regan’ is a gender-neutral title, one given to each ladies and boys. Originating from the Irish surname Ua Riagáin, the title actually means “king” or “sovereign”. Pazuzu is a king himself, the king of the wind demons, so this may be a becoming affiliation. Furthermore, that the title is unisex may counsel Pazuzu was solely snug possessing an individual whose title may be appropriate for a male, making it extra applicable for when he does absolutely take over Regan’s physique and begins declaring himself as the harmful king demon he’s, reinforcing his intimidation and energy appropriately.
8 When In The Exorcist Timeline Pazuzu Started Possessing Regan
Though the final presumption is that Pazuzu started possessing Regan via using the Ouija board, as talked about earlier Captain Howdy was launched shortly earlier than the Ouija board sport. Regan’s preliminary possession, nevertheless, happens off-camera as she mutters obscenities and urinates in the course of the lounge throughout a home occasion thrown by Chris. Regan is later seen violently shaking in her mattress, suggesting that is when Pazuzu takes full management over Regan. This muddled Exorcist timeline is simply made extra sophisticated by the director’s lower, which options further scenes of Regan appearing sinisterly earlier than the brutal bedside sequence the place Pazuzu seizes additional management over Regan.
7 Was Pazuzu Truly Exorcized From Regan At The Finish Of The Exorcist?
It’s proven within the sequel, Exorcist 2: The Heretic, that Regan stays below the affect of one thing sinister after the occasions of The Exorcist. With Regan nonetheless being hounded by entities, it poses the query of whether or not she was efficiently exorcised throughout her troubling experiences in Washington D.C. She seems troubled via many of the movie, significantly through the hypnosis scenes, however whilst she’s first reintroduced within the sequel she seems curious or bothered by the very fact there’s a new hypnosis machine within the workplace. This could possibly be nothing, however it might counsel the evil spirits have remained along with her all alongside because the finale of The Exorcist.
6 Did Pazuzu Repossess Regan At The Finish Of The Exorcist?
What could clarify why demons stay in Regan from the very starting of the sequel is that Pazuzu regains management over Regan after Damien Karras jumps out of the window to his loss of life through the ending of The Exorcist. That is solely believable since audiences witness Karras preventing again as his eyes change coloration like Regan’s did and he goes to strangle Regan, by shouting “No!” His face momentarily turns again to trying regular once more earlier than he instantly then jumps out of the window. It’s throughout that break up second, when Karras fights again towards the demon’s will, that Pazuzu could effectively have then leaped again into Regan earlier than Karras jumps to his loss of life.
5 The Significance Of Regan’s Ardour For Faucet Dancing In Exorcist 2
The very fact Regan likes tap-dancing in Exorcist 2: The Heretic could don’t have any significance in any respect, aside from to see Linda Blair attempt her hand at one thing new and thrilling within the sequel. Nevertheless, it might have a extra sinister that means. Faucet dancing, together with drawing, is a really harmless follow, one thing a younger little one may attempt to study. Regan appears troubled as she tries to study faucet. If she continues to be possessed at this stage, is possibly Pazuzu attempting to current Regan because the harmless, innocent little lady he wants her to be to stay inconspicuous, a naïve try by Pazuzu to keep up his cowl.
4 Why Regan Is Ready To Learn Minds In Exorcist 2
Throughout The Exorcist, it turns into clear that Pazuzu possesses telepathic skills, as he demonstrates by studying Karras’ thoughts on a number of events. This may increasingly clarify why Regan is ready to learn minds within the Exorcist 2: The Heretic, that she is certainly nonetheless possessed and Pazuzu is merely mendacity considerably dormant till as soon as once more threatened by the church. Both that or Regan is freed from evil influences however this energy had been inadvertently imparted to her from her experiences in Washington D.C. One other risk is that Regan has this skill regardless, which poses solely extra questions, comparable to how and why that is the case.
3 Was Regan Gifted From The Starting?
Throughout Exorcist 2: The Heretic, Regan demonstrates her telepathic skill by serving to one other younger lady along with her autism. She reads the unstated phrases within the little lady’s thoughts and encourages her to talk fluently, which she does, and for the primary time. If that is the work of Pazuzu, it is unclear why he would do that. This strongly suggests Regan is in possession of this energy, that that is her expertise and hers alone. She is, in spite of everything, in a position to confidently inform her mom close to the very starting of The Exorcist that she is effectively conscious of how a lot her mom likes Mr. Denning, which was very stunning for Chris to listen to.
2 Who Was Regan’s Father?
Regan’s father is talked about throughout an early scene in The Exorcist, between Regan and her mom when Regan is being tucked into mattress. Her mother and father are within the technique of an acrimonious divorce (her father is in Europe and isn’t seen within the film). Based on the Exorcist novel, Regan has an image of her father, Howard MacNeil, on her bedside desk.
It stays unclear why Regan’s mother and father determined to divorce, and why is it being performed in such an acrimonious method. One risk is that the already-possessed Regan pushed her father out of the household image, to go away solely herself and her mom. The legend goes that Pazuzu, the king of the wind demons, could be very protecting of pregnant girls and moms specifically, so this will clarify why the daddy was pushed out of the household in a roundabout way by Pazuzu, who could have already got had possession of Regan lengthy earlier than the occasions of The Exorcist started.
1 Is Regan The Daughter Of Devil?
Merely unearthing an historical artifact of Pazuzu within the Iraq desert arguably didn’t essentially unleash his energy onto planet Earth. Somewhat, what’s extra believable is {that a} demon spirit mendacity dormant inside Regan was awoken from its sleep on the thought of Father Merrin having found one thing so carefully related to Pazuzu, and thus a connection between the 2, between good and evil, was established. To be extra particular, Regan might actually be the daughter of Devil.
The Omen, launched solely two years after The Exorcist, featured the son of Devil, and little question took inspiration from The Exorcist. This connection between Father Merrin and Pazuzu might have merely sparked one thing in Regan, now conscious of a menace to her existence because the daughter of Devil. The Exorcist: Believerhas a terrific alternative to reply some if not all of those devilishly tantalizing questions from The Exorcist and Exorcist: The Heretic and put to relaxation the mysteries nonetheless surrounding Regan MacNeil as soon as and for all.
