Pazuzu (The Exorcist) feet, two pairs of wings, a scorpion's tail, and a serpentine penis. Pazuzu first appeared in William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" in 1971. The novel is about a 12-year-old girl, Regan MacNeil, possessed by a demon. The demon is later revealed to be Pazuzu; though never explicitly stated to be the demon, two references were made about his statue, which was uncovered in the prologue by Father Lankester Merrin in northern Iraq. After Regan's mother worries about her daughter being possessed, Merrin and Karras arrive at her house and perform an exorcism on Regan and successfully force the demon out
The Exorcist (film) or "semi-subliminal". In an interview in a 1999 book about the film, "The Exorcist" author Blatty addressed the controversy by explaining that, "There are no subliminal images. If you can see it, it's not subliminal." The editing of the title sequence was the first major project for the film title designer Dan Perri. As a result of the success of "The Exorcist", Perri went on to design opening titles for a number of major films including "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Gangs of New York" (2002). Lalo Schifrin's working score was rejected by Friedkin. Schifrin had written six