The face of Pazuzu is provided by Eileen Dietz, who also plays Regan during the vomiting, levitation and masturbation scenes. In the 1973 horror film (based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty), Pazuzu is the demon who possesses the Linda Blair character and is associated with the Christian Satan and the forces of evil. Curator's comments This head was probably suspended close to a woman in labour, for protection against the female demon Lamashtu. Amulets and other iconography of Pazuzu have been found in locations ranging from the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran to the Greek island of Sámos, while written sources describing Pazuzu began to appear around 670 B. This evolution continued into the Hellenistic Period of Mesopotamian history and carried on into the Christian period.

Notably, while numerous statuettes of Pazuzu have been discovered throughout the years, no one has ever found a full-sized statue of the demon.Therefore, the statues and plaques of Pazuzu were not possessed evil objects, but were commonly used by the people of ancient times to protect their loved ones. Although Mercedes McCambridge provided Pazuzu's lines from the moment when Karras confronts the possessed Regan for the first time up until the final confrontation, Linda Blair and Ron Faber also provided lines for Pazuzu.

Given the number of artifacts uncovered, it can probably be inferred that Pazuzu enjoyed great popularity, [9] and based upon the uniformity of the heads, amulets and statues, it has even been speculated that such representations of the demon/god were mass-produced. Its victims are an older Regan, portrayed by Geena Davis, and Regan's daughter Casey, portrayed by Hannah Kasulka.Faber provided two lines in this same scene, but he also recorded Pazuzu's lines during the entire "demonic head-spin" scene and he also provided a growl in the sequence where Karras is possessed by the demon. William Peter Blatty always considered "The Exorcist" a story about the triumph of good over evil, but the film's alternate endings differ in how much this comes across. Christians and all people need to know that Ouija boards are not a gateway to communicating with dead loved ones.