Several years ago I checked out some locations for the Exorcist while visiting Washington DC. For my last trip, I ventured out to find a few more as well as revisit some iconic locales. As most fans know, the film takes place in Georgetown and quite a bit of the neighborhood, university, and other areas were extensively used by the production.
Georgetown University's Healy Hall is the setting for the film-location-within-a-film.
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For Ellen Burstyn's walk home, she actually does take the steps down from Healy Hall...
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Although the walk is a direct route to the house, she instead ends up a few blocks south and turns the corner that actually does lead to the McNeil house....
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And spies some nuns walking across the street....
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And much farther away she walks by a church....
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Back to Healy Hall, behind the building is a couple of locations including the church and where Father Karras and Lt. Kinderman share their love of movies....
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Inside Healy Hall was also used....
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Down the street from McNeil house is the canal bridge where Chris and Father Karras first meet...
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And those fantastic steps.....
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As fans know, the house itself is quite a bit different than it appears in the final film. The production added a whole new section to the house to be adjacent to the steps as well as added an attic.
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Across the street from the famous house is the bar that inspired St. Elmo's Fire...
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Although I didn't get a chance to meet her, I did grab some shots of Ellen Burstyn filming a movie while in Omaha a couple years back...
You did it again Robert. Amazing location pictures of one of the scariest movies to come out of the seventies. I remember it well seeing it at the Salina Drive In and could not sleep at all that night.
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