See what wasn't used in the film

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2000)

A lot of you probably know alot about this film or you've read a lot of review about how great it is or how bad it is. I think it is a great film but I won't talk about that that much. I want to tell you about things that weren't used in the film that arguably would have made the film even better.
2 things: 1) They cut out a scene where Linda Blair does the spider walk down the stairs. She is bent backward in a very "chiropractic" looking position and she crawls down the stairs. This is such a creepy scene, and it wasn't used for certain reasons.
2) Composer Lalo Schifrin's musical score was thrown across the street, literally, by director Friedkin. With a recently released soundtrack you can actually hear Lalo's original music. It is one of the most creepiest and most original scores I have ever heard for a horror film and none of it was used. Instead we ended up with "Tubular Bells" which maybe works in the film but isn't nearly as good as Lalo's music. However the rest of the music that was used in the film, consisting of modern classical composers' music, composers such as Penderecki and Crumb, works perfectly well. You can watch cut footage in the 25th anniversary release documentary, and you can hear Lalo Schifrin's score in a recently released soundtrack.