Exorcist II: The Heretic New York City. William Peter Blatty claimed to have been the first person to start laughing at the theater in which he saw the film, only to be followed by the other patrons ("You'd think we were watching "The Producers""). William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist", recalled hearing a story in which angry audience members at "Exorcist II"'s first public performance began chasing Warner Bros. executives down the street within the first ten minutes of the screening. Friedkin saw half an hour of the film: "I was at Technicolor and a guy said 'We just finished a print of "Exorcist
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